Folk taboos at night
Folk taboos at night. There are actually many taboos when going out at night. Among the people, there are many taboos at night, because in ancient times, people usually went out at nine After midnight, people will not go out when it gets dark, because many people believe that the dark night should be the time for people in the underworld to be active. The following are folk taboos at night. Folk taboos at night 1
1. Avoid sleeping without curtains: In folk legends, there is a kind of ghost that likes to climb into windows. If you sleep without closing the curtains, you will easily wake up in the middle of the night and see out the window. If you encounter a "ghost knocking on the window" or hear the sound of knocking on the window in the middle of the night, it is a ghost calling you, and it usually turns into a beautiful beauty. So when you hear knocking on the window, don’t open your eyes.
2. Avoid extra empty pillows on the bed: Generally speaking, when there are several people lying on the bed, put a few pillows. Avoid extra empty pillows, which can also attract ghosts to the bed. Especially for couples, who are used to sleeping together, they often have two pillows on the bed. When one person goes on a business trip or stays up all night, the other pillow must be placed elsewhere, not on the bed.
3. Avoid sleeping with your head to the west: In many places in China, the orientation of morgues is with the head to the west and the feet to the east. As the saying goes, returning to the west at sunset or traveling on a crane to the west, people enter and exit this world with their heads first. With your feet behind you and your head facing west, it is easier for the dead to enter the Western Paradise. With your head facing west, it is the direction for ghosts to sleep.
People should sleep with their head north and feet south. If the head of your bed faces west, you must pay attention. This is a comfortable orientation for ghosts, and it is easy for ghosts to sleep in the same bed and use your bed to transport themselves to the paradise.
4. Don’t leave the closet door open: Children like to hide in the closet and play hide-and-seek. In folklore, there is such a kind of ghost doll to avoid the evil spirits of black and white. Cable often hides in other people's closets, hiding behind the clothes hung by adults, and they often enter at night when the closet door is open. If you hear a beeping sound coming from the closet in the dead of night, do not open the door.
5. Do not hang wind chimes in the bedroom: In ancient times, wind chimes were used to summon spirits. The upper part connected to the sky and the lower part connected to the earth. It is suitable to hang wind chimes in places that connect the sky and the earth, such as eaves, courtyards, pavilions, and corridors. Places, these are places that reach the sky and the earth. They are not closed at all, and the soul cannot stay. It would be different if it were hung in the bedroom. Once the ghost comes, it will be difficult to send it away.
6. Avoid leaving an empty space next to the pillow: Do not leave half the bed empty when sleeping, otherwise ghosts will come to bed in the middle of the night. Ghosts will wander around in the windy and rainy night. They are very eager and miss the warm bed. If I see you have half a bed free, I will lie down on it and lie quietly next to you. Therefore, when sleeping alone, you should sleep in the middle of the bed, and do not lie on the edge of the bed, leaving half of the bed empty. Some elderly people in rural areas even sleep sideways in order to avoid ghosts, so that the bed is fully occupied.
7. Avoid placing an empty chair by the bedside: If you place an empty chair by the bedside, it is the same as attracting ghosts. There will be ghosts sitting beside the bed in the middle of the night. Folk evening taboos 2
1. 10 things not to do in the middle of the night
First, you cannot hold an umbrella at home in the middle of the night. According to legend, umbrellas are used by ghost messengers to collect ghosts. If you are in Holding an umbrella at home will release the ghosts in the umbrella, which is very unlucky. Second, don’t go to crossroads. There are always many unexpected things happening at crossroads, and there are also many innocent souls.
Third, don’t look into the eyes of strangers, as it is easy for ghosts to lure away your soul. If you cannot take out the trash on the fourth night, you will throw away all the wealth in the home and affect the wealth in the home. Fifth, you cannot count the stairs in the middle of the night. If you count too many stairs, it is usually a human corpse.
Sixth, do not whistle in the middle of the night, as the whistle will attract the ghosts of the dead, which is unlucky. On the seventh night, if someone calls you, don't look back or just respond casually. It is mentioned in the Five Elements that there are three fires on the human body. If someone taps your shoulder and you turn around, a fire will be put out. When the ghost calls you, it means accepting the ghost's call. greet.
Don’t pick up things randomly outside in the middle of the night, because these things are likely to be used to lure greedy people to take them home, and ghosts will protect themselves in this object. Ninth, don’t comb your hair in the middle of the night, because it is usually the morning of the underworld, and ghosts will comb their hair when they get up, so that you will be in sync with your precious life.
Don’t look in the mirror at midnight. Mirrors are usually spiritual objects that lead to another world. If you look in the mirror in the middle of the night, you will see some unclean things.
2. Taboos about cooking in the middle of the night
When cooking in the middle of the night, if you cannot finish the food, you must put it away and do not put it on the table. According to folklore, if you put food on the table, ghosts will think that it is a tribute, which will attract surrounding ghosts to your home. In fact, there is a certain reason why food prepared at night should be put away. Generally, the food will be eaten hot the next day to prevent cockroaches or mice from touching the food at night.
3. Will washing your hair in the middle of the night attract ghosts?
According to folklore, midnight is when ghosts dawn. If you wash your hair in the middle of the night, it will synchronize with the ghosts' daily routine. Yes. Unlucky. In fact, it is not advisable to wash your hair before going to bed because your immunity will be reduced after you fall asleep. If your hair is not dry, you will easily catch cold after falling asleep, causing a cold. If things go on like this, sometimes it will cause headaches and other diseases, affecting people's normal sleep. . Folk taboos at night 3
1. Don’t look in the mirror in the middle of the night
Old people say that there is another world in the mirror. If you look in the mirror in the middle of the night, they will wake up. If you look in the mirror in the middle of the night, you must remove the mirror immediately. Cover it downward to suppress the resentful spirit. This is the most mentioned of the 10 things not to do in the middle of the night. The yin and yang culture in Chinese Feng Shui theory believes that everyone has seven parts human energy and three parts ghost energy, that is, the person himself is a unity of yin and yang.
However, the ratio of yin and yang in a person will also change. At night, yin wins and yang declines, and ghost energy rises. At this time, when you look in the mirror, you often see things you shouldn't see. It is said that combing your hair in front of the mirror at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, or peeling an apple in a spiral way, when your hair is broken or the skin of the apple is broken, you can see the most original scene by staring in the mirror.
2. Don’t whistle
I believe everyone has had the experience of whistling at night when they were children and being stopped by adults. The old people said that people's life was not good in the past. There were basically no lights at night and it was pitch black wherever they went. Therefore, the souls of those who were unwilling to die would come out and wander around. If you whistled, you would attract them.
The other is a more superstitious saying in ancient times. It is believed that "Xiaoying" is caused by the ghosts of the dead in battle. Therefore, by extension, there is a saying that whistling at night will attract the ghosts.
3. Don’t comb your hair in the middle of the night
According to ancient times, people went to bed at twelve o’clock in the evening. Superstitious people thought that was the time when ghosts were active. If you were there Comb your hair at the right time, that is to say, you comb your hair when the ghost just wakes up, which happens to be at the same time as the ghost.
Keywords: Taboo