Rural taboo

Taboos in rural areas: Taboos related to crops, and sowing is forbidden on frugal days. There is a saying that "there is no farming, and the seedlings are not complete."

Barbers running all over the street are forbidden to shout.

Women are forbidden to move the line tied by masons.

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

Bad luck is forbidden.

Leaping is forbidden in August.

It is forbidden to use more dragons to control water and less cattle to plow fields. On the first day of the first lunar month, it is determined that several dragons will control water this year; The first ugly day was a few days, just a few cows plowing the fields.

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

Taboo the appearance of the north-south rainbow. There are: the east rainbow thunders and the west rainbow rains, the south rainbow floods and the north rainbow glows. Gramping radish is like cutting radish with a knife.

It is forbidden to rain on Dragon Boat Festival. Otherwise, the crops will bloom five times this year. If the rain falls from the house, it is not taboo.

It is forbidden to rain lightly in early August. As the saying goes, the drought will end in May next year.

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

It is forbidden to blow east wind or southeast wind for several days. There is a saying that "the east wind blows in the sky, and the sea dries up and the rocks crumble."

It is forbidden not to rain in the first half of September in the lunar calendar. It is believed that "it will not be dry next winter from the fifth to the thirteenth (September)."

Don't point at the rainbow. If you are taboo, your fingers will ache.

No whirlwind. Think there's a ghost in the whirlwind. The child passed by like 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 for New Year's Eve couplets for next year. If you are taboo, you will be discredited 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 up in the fifth day of junior high school, that is, sweep the poor.

Before family members go out, they should clean the room and throw out the dirty soil. After the family goes out, it is forbidden to clean on the same day, and the dirt will not fall down within three days.

It is forbidden to eat rice before the fifth day. Taboo is to show your poverty.

It is forbidden to marry each other and avoid one day. Generally refers to the month 13, February 1 1, twelfth month 19, others are not taboo. The main taboo is not to go out and not to travel far.

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

There is a kind of wild garlic, and the villagers call it small garlic. You can eat before Tomb-Sweeping Day, but you can't eat after Tomb-Sweeping Day. Legend has it that ghosts pee on it.

Villagers call the May of the lunar calendar "evil month", and it is forbidden to start work or move in May, and it is forbidden for women to dismantle and wash bedding.

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

Children should wear yellow shoes in leap months.

It is forbidden to break ground in the three directions of Tai Sui and Shi. If we must start work, we must choose "Stealing Repair Day" to break ground. Folk agreement: every day is the day of theft-Jiazi Day, Bingzi Day, Gengzi Day and Wuzi Day. It is said that the next day is the day of traveling in traditional times.

It is forbidden to cut down sacred trees. Trees that have grown for many years, have strange shapes, or have appeared gods or 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 buildings. Because it blooms and bears no fruit.

Dead trees or big dead branches in residents' yards should be cut down in time, and long-term preservation is prohibited.

It is forbidden to plant lonely peach trees in the house. Taboo words are ominous for a person.

Peach and apricot trees are forbidden to bloom twice a year. Feel unlucky.

Trees in hospitals should be cut down by roots, and it is strictly forbidden to cut down by roots.

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

Toona sinensis is forbidden in building houses. Wood is hard, easily deformed and often makes noise. Legend has it that this tree was once named the king of trees, and when it was under pressure, it would protest.

It is forbidden to grow sunflowers in the yard. First, because sunflower is homophonic with ghosts, and second, because sunflower has high stems and wide leaves, it looks like a person looking down at night, so people think that there are ghosts hidden under sunflower, so there is this taboo.

Hospitals like to grow figs because they have no flowers and seeds.

Sophora japonica should be planted in the hospital. As the saying goes, it is better to rest than to pine for a thousand years and cypress for ten thousand years. At the same time, elms should be planted in the hospital. The villagers regard elm as the homonym of jade, which means good luck. Especially in the northwest, villagers said: it is difficult to buy elm trees in the northwest with money. Taboo: "No" in daily life should choose auspicious days, and avoid moving in May. When you move, put the pot in first, and usually eat cakes when you eat rice in the pot. As the saying goes, move three times a year without eating cakes.

It is forbidden to plant trees in toilets.

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

The toilet should choose the southeast corner or southwest corner of the courtyard.

The toilet is lower than the yard. Rain around the toilet is prohibited from flowing into the courtyard.

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

Rain on the roof is forbidden to flow to the back of the house. Should flow into your own yard.

Leave a waterway next to the gate, and the water in the yard will bypass the gate after flowing out of the waterway.

It is forbidden to eat after others.

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

It is forbidden to eat with plates.

It is forbidden to bite steamed bread directly with your mouth.

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

It is forbidden to eat pumpkin seeds raw.

Don't eat Wo Wo and steamed bread on your birthday.

It is forbidden to eat four packs of zongzi in early May.

It is forbidden to entertain the matchmaker to eat a piece of soup. He was cheated. Eat steamed stuffed bun, jiaozi and noodles.

The villagers pay attention to sweeping the floor from the outside to the inside. There is no cleaning 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 on purpose.

It is forbidden to hang house dust on the roof of the house where you live.

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

Don't throw your hair anywhere, it's stuck in the crack in the wall.

It is forbidden to have a haircut at grandpa's house, and it is also forbidden for uncle to shave his nephew's head.

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

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

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

Empty barrels are forbidden to enter the hospital. One empty bucket should be carried in your hand and the other empty bucket should be carried into the hospital.

Never put the kitchen knife in the basin or along the basin.

It is forbidden to tilt the bench.

It is forbidden to break pots and bowls and other ceramic utensils. Weddings and funerals on holidays are especially taboo. If you don't mean to break it, say: Peace through the years. Choosing the year and breaking the homonym.

When steaming steamed bread, it is forbidden to light a cigarette from the stove mouth.

It is forbidden to burn onion skin, garlic skin, chicken feathers and other items in the kitchen fire.

It is forbidden to pee in front of Sun Moon Temple.

It is forbidden to grow water and garlic when someone is not at home. Water garlic means stringing several cloves of garlic together in spring, putting them in a container with water and eating the long garlic seedlings.

No sundries are allowed on the kitchen table. In particular, you can't aim the blade of a kitchen knife at the chef.

It is forbidden to mend clothes worn on the body. In special circumstances, a straw must be placed in the beard.

When serving a bowl or teacup to a guest, use both hands, not one hand. When others bring themselves bowls or teacups, 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 loving paper. It is forbidden to litter and trample on writing paper, otherwise it is disrespectful to our ancestors. Therefore, when the old man sees a small piece of paper in the street, he will bend down to pick it up and stuff it in the crack in the wall.

There is also a person in the village who pays attention to "shallow tea is full of wine, and tea is full of lies". In addition, there is a saying that tea has seven meals and eight drinks. Otherwise, it's disrespectful.

When giving gifts, more than three must be singular. It is forbidden to send four, and there are three ghosts and four gods.

Debt collection is prohibited in the first month. Lenders had to repay their money several years ago.

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

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

No sweeping is allowed when someone is at home. The others just left, so they didn't pour water.

If you want to do something festive at home, you should inform in advance when you go home. It is forbidden to call people temporarily.

When fighting with others, don't grab each other's hookah brain. It is also forbidden for two people to add fuel to the fire.

It is forbidden to give or ask for fermented dough.

Younger generations are forbidden 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 at the signature. If you don't write, just write your father's name or something.

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

People in the village are forbidden to say that they are ill. Pronouns include: sad, unable to live, listless and so on.

When a woman is pregnant, it is forbidden to say that she is pregnant or pregnant. The pronoun is: Yes, there is joy.

For normal excretion, the villagers also taboo straightforward expression. Pronouns include: urinating, urinating, and going to the toilet.

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

Nine years is a taboo. Generally from the age of 27, with special emphasis on 45, 54 years old. 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 the Wolf.

The number 250 is forbidden.

It is forbidden to pick up hats. It is not good for people to think that hats are sad hats.

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

Unmarried women are forbidden to open their faces.

Any married woman is forbidden to celebrate the New Year at home.

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

Women are forbidden to visit their parents' graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Taboo women's underwear airing in the open air.

Women are forbidden to pour water from the door.

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

It is forbidden to bring scissors on the fifth day of the first month.

No steaming on the 25th day of the first month.

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.

Children are forbidden to eat steamed bread and peel it. Otherwise, marry Scar's daughter-in-law or find Scar's son-in-law.

Children are forbidden to play with fire. Otherwise, sleeping will get the kang wet.

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

Children's edible oil skin is prohibited. Avoid membership fees and clothes.

Crows are not allowed to crow nearby.

Owls are forbidden to sing nearby.

There is no bird droppings on the head. In this case, the superstitious practice is to draw a cross on the ground with your fingers, which can turn luck into luck.

There is more than enough breast milk. It is forbidden to feed animals such as pigs and dogs and to bask in the sun. It should splash on the south wall.

It is forbidden to deliberately pick and wash the hair scales on the baby's head.

Women avoid high cheekbones. As the saying goes, women have high cheekbones and kill their husbands without a knife.

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

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

Toes are forbidden to be longer than toes. As the saying goes: the second big toe is long, the old man dies first, and the mother dies later.

No tears on her face.

Children are forbidden to hit swallows, or they will be blind.

It is a good sign that swallows nest under the eaves of houses or indoors.

Hens are forbidden to crow.

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

Don't let the wolf into the house.

It is forbidden to shoot 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. People believe that when chopsticks hit the cat, the cat will take the snake home.

Dogs born in the twelfth lunar month are forbidden to be kept in other seasons.

It is forbidden to keep pure white dogs and cats.

It is forbidden to meet snakes to mate.

It is forbidden to kill snakes in the house. The villagers think that snakes are the land gods of the house.

Rats are forbidden to bite clothes and quilts.

It is forbidden to cut the hospital site like a knife. 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, four ghosts, is forbidden. There are toilets in all four corners of the yard.

It is forbidden to build four or six rooms. It means: four or six is not a success. Taboo: "Precautions" in weddings and funerals prohibit consanguineous marriages.

There is no bone blood reflux. A woman goes to her uncle's house to be a daughter-in-law.

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

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

It is forbidden for men and women of different generations to marry.

It is forbidden for newlyweds to live in newly-built houses, for fear of committing three evils, namely, putting themselves in the lion's den, spreading the soil and Shen Tu. The way is for the elders to stay symbolically for one or two nights.

Engagement is forbidden before the twelfth lunar month. I have asked my daughter for the New Year. "Wen" is the dialect of the villagers, and it is in favor of "marriage".

It is forbidden to hold happy events in spring. A year without beginning of spring is also called a widowed year.

It is forbidden to do two happy events a year for fear of celebrating happiness. An alternative way is: 10. There is no taboo to hold two happy events in one day, but there is a premise that the two brides can't meet each other in one day.

Marriage is forbidden before the third anniversary of the white banquet.

The wedding date must be chosen according to the woman's zodiac. The favorable month is divided into two favorable months and two small favorable months. Usually two in winter and two in summer. After the profit month is determined, choose an auspicious day according to the tactics of nine planets on duty and eight-character calculation. The nine planets are: Demon, Confusion, Hedao, Shagong, Zhixing, Bumu, Horn, Expert and Morning Herald. The eight characters are: father, mother, husband, wife, soap, head, hall and kitchen. Generally, the eighth day of each month is an auspicious day, but marriage is forbidden on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

When the man gets married and the woman sends the bride, it is usually the uncle, aunt and aunt of the couple who hold the post. They can also be brothers and sisters, but they must have parents and children. 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 a year.

In the process of marriage, there is also a saying that the bride is forbidden to be three-faced, that is, in front of the couple. The bride's zodiac sign is zero, and the penultimate, fifth and ninth zodiac signs are taboo. If the bride is a rat, the taboo is: cow, snake, chicken.

Brides are forbidden to step on the white ground before getting on the sedan chair and after getting off the sedan chair. People mostly use mats and red carpets to lay the floor.

The wedding route is forbidden to take repeated roads.

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, saying that they are beaming and happy. In case there is a coffin, it is good luck.

Marriage prohibits using mules to pull carts or as mounts. It is also forbidden to eat mule meat at banquets. Because it has no reproductive function.

On the first night of marriage, the lights and candles in the forbidden bridal chamber went out. Lights and candles must be lit until dawn, which means: a long twist filled with oil will always be lit. It is said that couples who turn off the lights first will have the upper hand all their lives.

Sexual intercourse is forbidden on the first night of marriage.

The bride is forbidden to do housework for three days after entering the door.

After the wedding, the bride stayed at her husband's house for ten days. In the meantime, if the husband is not here, the female companion should be invited to live together. It is forbidden for the bride to spend the night alone, and it is forbidden for the husband and wife to vacate the new house when they are not here.

It is forbidden for a person to sew a wedding quilt at home. Seven women with parents and children must be asked to sew together.

When you are newly married, you can't unpack and wash silk for three years, and it is forbidden to unpack and wash it in the second year.

It is forbidden for the bride to get pregnant within ten days. One day interferes with dad, two days interferes with mom. There is also a saying that it is unlucky to get pregnant within 0/00 days of the first marriage/kloc.

Pregnant women are forbidden to sit on stone mills and ropes.

Pregnant women are forbidden to watch weddings, funerals and weddings, and carpenters nail rafters.

It is forbidden for a baby to pee at birth, and it is considered as the father's urine. There is also a saying that gold urine is silver.

Babies are forbidden to have teeth at birth.

Don't throw the afterbirth.

When giving birth to a boy, you should give birth sideways, and it is forbidden for mother and child to face each other. As the saying goes, mother and son are not antagonistic. It's lucky to have a daughter face to face. It is forbidden to give birth to a baby girl on her back.

Newborn babies are lucky to be clean. If they have yellow mucus, they are lucky. Avoid using white or red mucus. If it is white, it can be named after silver.

Strangers are forbidden to enter the delivery room or even the courtyard gate. Three days after delivery, relatives or neighbors come to visit the parturient, and then there is no taboo. If you violate the taboo, the host will tear off his trousers as a punishment.

Don't walk on the roof of the delivery room.

It is forbidden to blow the cooked soup with your mouth. Try it with your fingers, or taste it with your mouth.

It is forbidden to visit patients in the afternoon or evening.

It is forbidden to dump dregs everywhere. It is advisable to pour it in a cleaner place.

Borrow someone else's medicine pot or pot, and don't send it after use.

Doctors are not allowed to call the door when visiting patients' homes. Especially at night, it is forbidden to call the patient's name.

It is forbidden to use nails on coffins, because they will not rot quickly.

After the coffin is finished, it must be placed in a place that does not interfere with daily life. Once you put it away, don't move it at will.

It is advisable to sew shroud for the elderly in leap month. Shrouds need clothes from four seasons, including single clothes and cotton-padded clothes. Rubber shoes, leather shoes and shoes with nails are prohibited.

Bones buried for many years should be picked up before the sun rises. Bones are forbidden to see light.

After the death of an adult man, it is forbidden to go to the grave alone if he has no wife before his death. Must marry a ghost wife to the underworld. If you don't marry a ghost wife, you must pinch someone with cake powder or bean powder. Cake powder people take high, bean powder people take sinus.

It is forbidden to wear mourning clothes in or out of other people's houses. Borrowing things and doing things, we must take off the hat of filial piety.

The dutiful son is forbidden to shave within 0/00 days of mourning/kloc. A dutiful son should step on his heels before wearing them. Let them break the white shoes themselves, and it is forbidden to tear off the white cloth.

It is forbidden to use other people's things for nothing during the funeral.

At the funeral banquet, the dutiful son is forbidden to eat at the same table as the guests. Just a few bites in Peng Ling.

Folk songs are forbidden at funerals.

When buried, the heads of boys and girls tied with paper must be broken. Afraid of its essence. Those who attend the burial are forbidden to return from the original road.

It is forbidden to rain in the near future after burial, but I like snow. As the saying goes, if you want to be rich, snow will build a tomb; If you want to be poor, rain on the grave.

Seven deadly sins are forbidden after burial. That is, the decedent's 27, 37, 57, etc. , happens to be the seventh day, seventeen or twenty-seven, is made seven. Anyone who commits the seven deadly sins, when burning paper, makes a small yellow flag according to the age of the deceased and inserts it in front of the grave.

During the Spring Festival of the first year after the death of the dutiful son, he didn't change his new clothes, didn't pay a New Year call, and stayed at home in mourning. It is forbidden to paste red couplets for three years.

Once the graves are piled up, it is not easy to break ground at ordinary times. Only Tomb-Sweeping Day and the first day of October can break ground.

After the third anniversary, there are still full theories and explorations. It is three years after the death of the deceased, one month or twenty days in advance.

If the deceased died in this house, it is not appropriate to move the body to this house. If you die somewhere else, you need a rooster to take the body home.

It is a positive example for a brother to marry a sister-in-law, and it is incest for a brother to marry a sister-in-law.