Rural taboo

taboo in rural areas: taboo related to crops, planting in frugal days. There is a saying that "there is no farming in festivals, and the seedlings are not complete".

it's forbidden for the barber to shout in the streets.

it is forbidden for women to move the line tied by the masons.

the blacksmith's chopping block is forbidden to sit on.

the appearance of jinxes is forbidden.

leap in August is forbidden.

it is forbidden to control water with more dragons and cultivate fields with fewer cattle. On the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, it is determined that this year is a few dragons to control water; The first ugly day is a few days, that is, a few cows plow the fields.

people believe that it should be cold when it is cold and hot when it is hot. Otherwise, the harvest will be poor, as the saying goes: neither cold nor hot, the grain will not bear fruit.

the appearance of the southern and northern rainbow is forbidden. There are: the east rainbow thunders and the west rainbow rains, the south rainbow floods, and the north rainbow glows. Gram of turnip is like cutting a turnip with a knife.

it's forbidden to rain on the dragon boat festival. Otherwise, the crops will have five flowers this year. If the rain falls from the house, it is not taboo.

light rain in early August is forbidden. As the saying goes, the first day of August is sprinkled for a while, and the drought will end in May next year.

it is forbidden to rain on the first day of lodging. As the saying goes, the head is drenched and the drought is exhausted. He also said: drench the head, dry the tail.

it is forbidden to blow east wind or southeast wind in several days. There is a saying that "the east wind blows in the sky and the sea is dry."

it is forbidden to have no rain in the first half of September in the lunar calendar. It is believed that "(September) is from the fifth to the thirteenth, and it will not be dry for the next winter."

finger rainbow is forbidden. If you are taboo, your fingers will get sore.

no whirlwind. Think there's a ghost in the whirlwind. The child passed by in a whirlwind and shouted: whirlwind, whirlwind, you are a ghost, I am the king of hell and I am not afraid of you.

It is forbidden to steam food on the last day of the twelfth lunar month, which means that there will be no surplus food next year.

It is forbidden to leave the paste used for pasting couplets on New Year's Eve for the next year. If you are taboo, you will be smeared in the coming year.

it is forbidden to clean the courtyard from the first day to the fifth day of the first month. You can only clean on the fifth day of the fifth day, which means sweeping the poor.

before going out, family members should clean up indoors and outdoors and throw away the dirty soil. After the family goes out, it is forbidden to clean on the same day, and the dirt will not be poured out within three days.

before the fifth day, eating rice is forbidden. The taboo is to show your poverty.

it is forbidden to marry each other. Generally, it refers to the 13th of the month, 11th of February and 19th of the twelfth lunar month, and other things are not taboo. The main taboo is not to go out and not to go far.

In Tomb-Sweeping Day, washing clothes and grinding flour are forbidden for the first three days and the last four days.

There is a kind of wild garlic, which is called Xiao garlic by the villagers. You can eat it before Tomb-Sweeping Day, but you can't eat it after Qingming Festival. Legend has it that the ghost peed on it.

The villagers call the May of the lunar calendar "evil May", so it is forbidden to start work or move, and women are forbidden to remove and wash the bedding in May.

it is forbidden to hatch chickens in leap month. If you want to hatch, you need to ask the widow to put the eggs. However, it is advisable to make shroud and cut longevity materials for the elderly in leap month.

Children should wear yellow shoes in leap months.

it is forbidden to break ground in the direction of Tai Sui and Sanshi. If it is necessary to start construction, it is necessary to choose the "stealing repair day" to break ground. Folk agreement: every day is the day of stealing repairs-Jiazi Day, Bingzi Day, Gengzi Day and Wuzi Day. It is said that the second day is the day of traveling in the traditional age.

it is forbidden to cut down sacred trees. Trees that have grown for many years and have a strange shape, or have appeared gods, or have had special phenomena, are called sacred trees.

It is forbidden to plant poplars and willows in the courtyard.

it is forbidden to plant buttonwood trees in residential courtyard. Because it blossoms and does not bear seeds.

dead trees or large dead branches in residential yards should be cut down in time, and it is forbidden to keep them for a long time.

it is forbidden to plant solitary peach trees in the house. It's ominous to be alone if you are taboo.

peach trees and apricot trees are forbidden to bloom twice a year. Think it is unlucky.

trees cut in the courtyard should be rooted, and it is forbidden to cut them by roots.

It is forbidden to plant a single tree in the hospital, and it should be in pairs.

It is forbidden to use Toona sinensis when building houses. Wood is hard, easy to deform and often makes a noise. Legend has it that this tree was once named the king of trees, and when it was under pressure, it protested.

sunflower cultivation is forbidden in the courtyard. First, because sunflower is homophonic with ghosts, and second, because sunflower stems are high and leaves are wide, it looks like a person who looks down at night, so people think that there are ghosts hidden under sunflower, so there is this taboo.

figs are popular in the hospital because they have no flowers and seeds.

Sophora japonica should be planted in the hospital. As the saying goes, it is better to have a rest than to have a pine tree for a thousand years and a cypress for ten thousand years. At the same time, elms should be planted in the hospital. The villagers take elm as the homonym for Yu, which means good luck. Especially in the northwest, the villagers said: it is difficult to buy northwest elm with money. Taboo: "NO" in daily life should choose an auspicious day, and it is forbidden to move in May. When you move, put the pot in first, and generally eat cake when you eat rice in an pot. As the saying goes, you don't eat cake when you move, but you move three times a year.

it is forbidden to grow trees in the toilet.

the toilet room must not be higher than other houses. Otherwise, it is called: the tortoise looks up.

the toilet should be located in the southeast or southwest corner of the courtyard.

the toilet should be lower than the courtyard. It is forbidden for rainwater around the toilet to flow into the courtyard.

it is forbidden to plant trees in front of the house.

rainwater on the roof is forbidden to flow to the back of the house. Should flow into their own yard.

The waterway should be left beside the gate, and the water in the courtyard will bypass the gate after flowing out of the waterway.

it is forbidden to eat behind others.

it is forbidden to insert chopsticks directly into the rice bowl.

eating on a plate is forbidden.

it is forbidden to bite the steamed bun directly with your mouth.

it is forbidden for more than two people to share a pear.

eating pumpkin seeds raw is forbidden.

it is forbidden to eat wowo and steamed stuffed bun on birthdays.

four packs of zongzi in early May are forbidden.

When entertaining the matchmaker, it is forbidden to eat a piece of soup, and the intention is cheated. Eat steamed stuffed bun, jiaozi and noodles.

the villagers pay attention to sweeping the floor from the outside to the inside. No sweeping from the inside out.

it is forbidden to sweep the floor together.

it is forbidden to take out the garbage at night. But you can sweep the floor.

after dark, when you pour dirty water into the hospital, you should cough deliberately.

it is forbidden to hang long house dust on the roof in the house where you live.

men are forbidden not to have their hair cut for a long time.

it is forbidden to throw hair everywhere, and it should be stuffed in the cracks in the wall.

It is forbidden to have a haircut at my grandfather's house, and it is also forbidden for my uncle to shave my nephew's hair.

Don't sleep with your head covered, thinking it's useless. People who sleep with their heads up and often push their pillows to the ground are considered promising by the villagers.

when someone calls at night, it is forbidden to answer as soon as you call.

it is forbidden to store sundries in front of the kitchen god.

it is forbidden to enter the hospital with empty buckets. One empty bucket should be carried in your hand and the other empty bucket should be carried into the hospital.

it is forbidden to put the kitchen knife in the basin or at the edge of the basin.

it is forbidden to put the bench obliquely.

it is forbidden to break ceramic utensils such as pots and bowls. Weddings and funerals on holidays are especially taboo. If you don't mean to break it, say: peace through the years. Taking the year is homophonic with breaking.

when steaming steamed buns, it is forbidden to light a cigarette from the stove mouth.

it is forbidden to burn items such as onion skin, garlic skin and chicken feathers in the kitchen fire.

it is forbidden to pee in front of the sun, the moon and the temples.

when someone is away from home, it is forbidden to plant water and garlic. Water garlic refers to stringing several cloves of garlic together in spring, putting them in a container with water and eating the long garlic seedlings.

it is forbidden to place sundries on the kitchen table. In particular, you can't aim the blade of a kitchen knife at the kitchen king.

it is forbidden to mend clothes worn on your body. When the situation is special, a straw should be placed in the beard.

when serving a bowl or teacup to a guest, you should use both hands, and one hand is forbidden. When others bring bowls or teacups to themselves, they should pick them up with both hands and nod their thanks.

In the past, people in the village had an atmosphere of respecting books and cherishing paper. It is forbidden to throw and trample on writing paper, otherwise it will be disrespectful to our ancestors. Therefore, when the elderly see a small piece of paper in the street, they will bend down to pick it up and stuff it in the cracks in the wall.

The village also pays attention to "shallow tea is full of wine, and tea is full of deceit". In addition, there is a saying that there are seven meals and eight drinks in tea. Otherwise disrespectful.

when giving gifts, three or more must be singular. It is forbidden to send four, and there is a saying that there are three ghosts and four gods.

it is forbidden to collect debts in the first month. Lenders must pay back their money years ago.

it is forbidden to pour dirty water on other people's doors or walls.

It is forbidden to sit, press or rub other people's hats or headscarves casually. There is a saying that "deceiving others does not bully hats".

it is forbidden to sweep the floor when someone is at home. Others have just left, so no pouring water.

if you want to hold a festive event at home, you should inform you in advance when you get home. It is forbidden to call people temporarily.

when fighting with people, it's forbidden to catch the other person's cigarette pot head. It is also forbidden for two people to get on the fire.

it is forbidden to give people or ask people for leavened dough for making dough.

it is forbidden for the younger generation to call their elders by their first names.

when an elder writes a letter to a younger generation, it is forbidden to write his name when signing. Just write the father's name without it or something.

There are also taboos in writing inscriptions. The agreed format is, for example, to reveal the tomb of a certain surname and taboo a certain name, and then move the certain name half a line to the right.

people in the village are forbidden to say that they are ill. The pronouns are: sad, hard to live, listless and so on.

when a woman is pregnant, it is forbidden to say that she is pregnant or pregnant. The pronouns are: yes, there is joy.

For normal excretion, villagers are also forbidden to express it directly. The pronouns are: relieve oneself, urinate, defecate and go to the toilet.

there is a saying in the village that "seven people don't go out and eight people don't go home". Seven and eight refer to the days with seven and eight in the lunar calendar.

taboo every nine years. Generally from the age of twenty-seven, with special emphasis on forty-five and fifty-four. There is also a saying that "women are afraid of wolves and men are afraid of every nine." The year before or after every nine years is the year of Wolf.

the number 25 is forbidden.

don't pick up your hat. Think that hats are sad hats, which is not good for people.

it is forbidden to pick up cigarette bags and cigarette bags.

unmarried women are forbidden to open their faces.

All married women are forbidden to celebrate the New Year at their parents' home.

it is forbidden for women to give birth in their parents' homes. As the saying goes, blood defeated her mother's family for thirty years.

It is forbidden for women to visit the maiden's grave in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

It is forbidden to air-dry women's underwear in public.

women are forbidden to pour water through the door.

it is forbidden to take needles on the first day, the second day, the tenth day, the thirteenth day, the fourteenth day, the fifteenth day, the sixteenth day, the seventeenth day, the eighteenth day, the twentieth day (not at night), the twenty-third, the twenty-fourth, the twenty-fifth, the first day of February, the second day of February and the third day of February.

it is forbidden to take scissors on the fifth day of the first month.

steaming on the 25th day of the first month is forbidden.

children are forbidden to swear. Otherwise, there will be horns on the head, or sores on the mouth, or the gods will cut their ears.

children are forbidden to smoke. Taboos don't grow up.

children are forbidden to eat steamed buns and peel them. Otherwise marry scar daughter-in-law, or find scar son-in-law.

children are forbidden to play with fire. Otherwise, you will wet the kang when you sleep.

children are forbidden to look in the mirror at night. If you are taboo, you will see ghosts.

children are forbidden to eat oily skin. Avoid membership dues and clothes.

crows are forbidden to sing in the vicinity.

it is forbidden for owls to sing nearby.

don't let bird droppings fall on your head. In this case, the superstitious practice is to draw a cross on the ground with your finger, which can turn the luck into luck.

There is excess breast milk, so it is forbidden to feed pigs, dogs and other animals, and it is forbidden to bask in the sun. Should be splashed on the south wall.

it is forbidden to intentionally dig and wash the hair scale on the baby's head.

women should avoid high cheekbones. As the saying goes, a woman's cheekbones are high, so she doesn't need a knife to kill her husband.

women avoid big mouths, while men like big mouths. As the saying goes, a man's mouth is full of squares, while a woman's mouth is full of vegetable chaff.

adult men and women should avoid pubic hair. If yes, the male is a dragon and the female is a white tiger.

it is forbidden that the second toe of foot is longer than the big toe of foot. As the saying goes: the second big toe is long, and the old man dies first, then the mother dies.

no tears on the face.

children are forbidden to hit swallows, otherwise they will be blind.

It is a good omen for swallows to nest under the eaves of houses or indoors.

it is forbidden for hens to crow.

it is forbidden to slaughter cocks for more than two years.

wolves are forbidden to enter the house.

it is forbidden to hit foxes when hunting. Because foxes can become immortals, mistakes will be rewarded.

dogs are forbidden to cry.

it is forbidden to hit the cat with chopsticks. It is believed that when chopsticks hit the cat, the cat will bring the snake home.

Dogs born in the twelfth lunar month are forbidden.

it is forbidden to keep pure white dogs and cats.

it is forbidden to meet snakes for mating.

snakes in the house are forbidden to be killed. The villagers believe that snakes are the earth gods of the house.

rats are forbidden to bite clothes and quilts.

it is forbidden to cut the site of the hospital. Knife is the villagers' customary name for kitchen knives.

houses with roads and lanes on three sides are forbidden.

The courtyard shape of sedan chair, the four ghosts, is forbidden. That is, there are toilets in the four corners of the courtyard.

it is forbidden to build four or six rooms. It means: four or six is not a success. Taboo: "Precautions" in weddings and funerals are forbidden to marry close relatives.

bone blood reflux is contraindicated. That is, women go to my uncle's house to be daughters-in-law.

it is forbidden for two in-laws to eat water from the same well.

The saying that men and women are in marriage is that white horses are afraid of green cows, and once sheep and rats are retired. The dragon and rabbit communicate in tears, but the pig and monkey don't come to the end. Also, the woman who belongs to the tiger is too hard to marry; A woman who belongs to a sheep has a bad life and is not suitable for marriage.

it is forbidden for men and women of different generations to get married.

It is forbidden for newlyweds to live in newly-built houses, for fear of committing three evils: Tai Sui, Wu Tu and Tu Shen. The way is for the elders to stay symbolically for one or two nights.

it is forbidden to get engaged before the end of the twelfth lunar month. I have asked my daughter for the New Year. "Ask" is the villagers' dialect and agrees with "marry".

it's forbidden to hold happy events in spring. A year without beginning of spring is also called the year of widowhood.

it's forbidden to have two happy events in one year, for fear of celebrating happiness. An alternative way is: there is no taboo to do two happy events within 1 days, but there is a prerequisite that the two brides cannot meet for 1 days.

before the third anniversary of the white banquet, marriage is forbidden.

the wedding date must be chosen according to the woman's animal sign. The beneficial month is divided into two beneficial months and two small beneficial months. Generally, there are two in winter and two in summer. After the month of profit is determined, choose an auspicious day according to the number of tricks calculated by nine planets on duty and eight characters. Nine planets is: Demon, Confusion, He Dao, Shagong, Zhi Xing, Bumu, Horn, Expert, Early Start. The eight characters are: father, mother, husband, wife, soap, first, hall, kitchen. Generally, the eighth day of each month is an auspicious day, but the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is forbidden to get married.

when the man marries and the woman sends her off, the couple's uncle, aunt and aunt usually take the post. They can also be brothers and sisters-in-law, but they must have parents and children. If you are over 45 years old, you can have no parents, but you can't be a wife. It is also forbidden for a person to hold this role twice in a year.

In the process of marriage, there is also a saying that the bride's animal sign is taboo, that is, the bride is in front of the new couple. The bride's animal sign is zero, and the first, fifth and ninth animal signs from the bottom are taboo. If the bride is a mouse, the taboo phase is: cow, snake, chicken.

It is forbidden for the bride to step on the white ground before getting on and after getting off the sedan chair. People mostly use mats and red carpets to lay the floor.

it is forbidden to repeat the wedding route.

During the procession, it is forbidden to meet temples, wells and toilets. Cover it with a red carpet.

the two wedding teams are forbidden to meet, which means they are happy and happy. In case of a coffin, it's good luck.

It is forbidden to use mules to pull carts or as mounts in marriage. Mule meat is also forbidden at banquets. Because it has no reproductive function.

On the first night of marriage, the lights and candles in the forbidden bridal chamber go out. Lamps and candles must be bright until dawn, which means: a long twist is full of oil, and it will last forever. It is said that the husband and wife who put out the light first will have the upper hand all their lives.

on the first night of marriage, sexual intercourse is forbidden.

within three days after the door, the bride is forbidden to do housework.

after the wedding, the bride stayed at her husband's house for ten days. In the meantime, if the husband is absent, a female companion should be invited to live together, and it is forbidden for the bride to spend the night alone, and it is even more forbidden for the husband and wife to be absent and empty the new house.

It is forbidden to sew wedding quilts at home alone. Seven women with parents and children must be invited to sew them together.

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