Why don't women celebrate their 40th birthday?
There is a folk saying that a woman's 40th birthday can't be lavished, because before the birthday, there are family members to worry about and friends to accompany, and family members and friends can celebrate their own birthdays. But 40 is a crucial time for a woman, with parents-in-law and children under 20. At this stage, it is very important to contribute to the family. If you hold a 40th birthday party, you will lose your life, which is also very bad for your family's fortune.
There is a saying in the countryside that "if you don't worship on Thursday, something will happen", which means that if you can't have a birthday party for your fortieth birthday, you can only spend it at home with your family, or don't have a birthday this year, otherwise there will be no birthday. Therefore, women only celebrate their 40th birthdays.
Women's birthday taboos
You can't have your birthday twice a year.
Modern people like to celebrate birthdays, and some have birthdays twice a year, once in the solar calendar and once in the lunar calendar. Some people have three birthdays when they meet a leap month. Actually, this is not good. In Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi said that there is a Toona sinensis tree, with 800 years as spring and 800 years as autumn, and its year is 3200 years, so the life of this Toona sinensis tree is very long. Therefore, traditionally, one birthday means one more year, and two birthdays a year means two more years. Having two birthdays a year is equivalent to speeding up the cycle. This is very unlucky.
About 60 years old, it is not appropriate to roll with the punches.
In the traditional theory, 60 Jiazi is a reincarnation, and after a reincarnation, everything goes back to the starting point. Therefore, the ancients believed that people's health, luck, longevity and so on. Will be severely tested around the age of 60; About 60 years old is the key point of life and death, so this period is not suitable for "birthday", even if "birthday" should be carried out in secret, so as not to disturb the terrifying and be arrested. The Book of Changes says "I can't come back for seven days", which means that the spirit of the sun is deprived until I come back for seven days. However, people think birthdays are the same. Seven years later, at the age of 67, I entered another cycle, and then I could have a normal birthday.