The rice-keeping mother has some leftover rice every time she eats, which is called "cold rice mother". Mixing rice during cooking can increase rice yield. It is rare today.
When building a new house, orientation, breaking ground, safety and erecting beams are auspicious days. On Liang Festival, the landlord gave the carpenter a "red envelope". Red cloth is hung on the beam, and cloth bags filled with grain seeds are hung at both ends. Green paper couplets are posted on the building (column) to avoid red paper, so as not to "set fire to the house". After the beam is placed, firecrackers are set off, and the carpenter puts the beam away, throws down the bag and catches it by the owner's children, symbolizing "passing the seeds on to the next generation". Neighbors hang red cloth on the house to avoid "Feng Shui" (Feng Shui is taken away by the new house).
Friends and relatives (including daughter and son-in-law) who occupy geomancy come to visit, and husband and wife are not allowed to share the same room. Like a house, you must write a "rental contract" first. Otherwise, it will "occupy Feng Shui". After liberation, this habit is rare.
Pack local islanders to travel or go abroad to make a living, and take a bag of soil with red cloth to show that they don't forget their hometown, or say, "It can prevent foreign countries from acclimatizing." Hospitality Some small islands have a small population. Often, guests from all over the island help each other, borrow bedding and rice, regardless of each other.
The island is scattered by hitchhiking, so it is inconvenient to go out. The boats passing by are all with people, free of charge, and some also provide food for free, but the fishing boats don't accept women.
Make way for two boats to meet at sea, the big boat to the small boat, the downwind boat to the headwind boat, the sailboat to the fishing boat, the fishing boat that got off the net later to the fishing boat that got off the net first, and the fishing boat that stopped the net to the working fishing boat. Pedestrians met on the road, gave up their baskets empty-handed, went into battle lightly, and gave their sedan chairs and sedan chairs to fishmongers.
In order to rescue people in distress at sea, rags are hung on the masthead during the day, a handle is lit at night, or iron tools are knocked for help. Other ships try to save people first, and then save the ship. People in distress should throw a shoe or a piece of wood before jumping. Fishing for floating bodies at sea is called "picking up gold ingots". It is not allowed to fish the female corpse on the back or the male corpse on the body. You have to turn it over to fish. Cover your face with a tarpaulin to ward off evil spirits after fishing.
In the old society, there were many illiterate people, but few literate people. When you see a piece of paper with words written on it, it is regarded as disrespect. You must pick it up, put it in the word burner and say, "Sin! Sin! " The wind has died down.
Road scum fell on the road and was trampled by others in order to recover quickly. Legend has it that in ancient times, someone was ill for a long time. Zhang (one of the "Eight Immortals") rode by on a donkey, kicked the medicine pot over, and the residue was trampled to pieces, and he recovered. People smell the smell and dump the dregs on the road. This habit has never stopped.