What do you mean by "three, six, nine for men and two, five, eight for women"

Ji Gongzhen made a mistake here. There are various taboos about the date of birth among the people in China, such as "No men allowed on the first day, no women allowed on the fifteenth day" and so on. However, it has nothing to do with anyone's memorial day, but a general theory of life; The so-called "no boys on the first day of the lunar calendar and no women on the fifteenth day" actually has two meanings. One meaning is that there are very few boys born on the first day of the lunar calendar and girls born on the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar. Another meaning is that if a child is born on this date, it means that he (she) is very poor, he (she) may kill his parents, even his/her husband's family, or he (she) will be rich and expensive. Of course, if family members are afraid of any misfortune, they can also find a fortune teller to adjust, just like our college entrance examination volunteers. As for how to adjust and how to adjust the cost, it depends on what daxian you are looking for at home. If the two sides negotiate the price, the fate file will be adjusted to the column of happiness, well-being and wealth. In short, the so-called "male 369, female 258" is also a common saying among the people and has nothing to do with anyone's anniversary. If "May" is Qu Yuan's memorial day, who will tell you that the other five days are memorial days?

Interestingly, Ji Hongzhen also explained in her page gambling that some scholars thought that Hulan was unlucky to be born on Memorial Day, but she quoted Xiao Hong's Biography of Hulan River, that is, when the orchid pot meeting was held on July 15, some rural people thought that the child born that night was born by a wild ghost riding a river lantern, and parents didn't like it, so they had to hide the birthday. From this, Ji Hongzhen came to the conclusion that it is ominous to be born on the Dragon Boat Festival in May, but it does not necessarily exist. She guessed that this taboo may have faded out of people's memory because of its long history, the propaganda to break superstition after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the movement to break the "four olds" during the Cultural Revolution.

Ji Hongzhen is right here, that is, some taboos will fade out people's memories; But there is another mistake, which has nothing to do with Qu Yuan and the anniversary. It's simply an unlucky term for the fifth day of May. Here you can refer to Tan Shaobing's textual research article "The Origin of Dragon Boat Festival". Tan Shaobing said that there are many opinions about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, among which the important ones are the commemoration of Qu Yuan, Wu Zixu, Cao E and Gou Jian, and the Dragon Boat Festival, the Summer Solstice Festival and the Evil Moon, which originated from Wuyue people. Among them, the theory of commemorating Qu Yuan has the widest, deepest and greatest influence. However, the historical truth is that long before Qu Yuan, people had the folk custom of Dragon Boat Festival, and Qu Yuan was only an accessory later. Among these statements, I think the theory of evil month and evil day can best explain Xiao Hong's taboo.

The so-called evil month means that May of the lunar calendar is the season of midsummer epidemic diseases, commonly known as "evil month", also known as "poisonous month" and "fierce month", so "everything is forbidden". The fifth day of May is a "bad month and bad day". There are many taboos on this day of this month, such as: "Building a house on this day makes people bald"; "Recommended seats without exposing the bed"; "Go to the house custom in May"; "Jingguan does not move in May and does not paste the window, so it is called evil May"; "If you don't shave your head in May, you are afraid of your uncle"; "May can't be an official, if you commit a crime, you will die"; "Giving birth to a child on May 5th, the male harms his father and the female harms his mother" ... Because of this, there are many activities in folk customs to ward off evil spirits and fight drugs, the most serious of which is "Don't raise a child on May 5th", that is, children born on May 5th are not raised, some are abandoned, and some are even thrown into the river.