Taboos are generally spread among the people through oral inheritance and behavior demonstration for thousands of years.
Taboo items are varied and strange, so it can be said that there are all kinds of things. It permeates all aspects of people's production and life. According to the records of ancient books, some have passed away with the passage of time, while others still exist. In today's rural areas with underdeveloped culture and science, it still has a certain market in people's minds. Here, only the taboo customs widely circulated in Shanxi rural real life are listed as follows.
Residential taboo
Housing is the place where people settle down and live, and it is also the habitat of nearly half of their lives. Especially in rural areas, housing as a part of personal property, the number of houses, good or bad, the size of the courtyard, is a measure of a family's wealth, whether family members have the ability to sign. Therefore, building a house is a top priority for married young people and families.
Just like building a house in a city, building a house in a natural environment should also conform to the laws of nature. Of course, rural houses should also conform to the rules of traditional customs. As a part of the whole village, any house should be built in harmony with other people's houses. Therefore, residential buildings should not only deal with the relationship between man and nature, but also deal with the social relationship between good people and families. At the same time, it should conform to customs and beliefs. Harmony is the key to the problem. The people think that only in this way can the family business prosper and the children and grandchildren prosper. Otherwise, it is inevitable that the family business will decline, children and grandchildren will be childless, and disasters will arise. As a result, a series of folk taboos, rules and stresses have been formed in the long-term historical dust.