Beijingers are also taboo to open umbrellas indoors. Old people often warn children: "Don't open an umbrella in the house, or the house will leak rain!" " Of course, this is an exaggeration, but it is not unreasonable, because the ceiling is the ceiling of a bungalow in Beijing, and the ceiling of a flat tile house in Beijing is made of wood strips, sorghum stalks and reed stalks, and then pasted with wallpaper. The ceiling is less than a foot high, and it is paper, so it is easy to pierce by waving a long thing in the house.
Old Beijingers also know that you can't cut your nails at night! Because before the advent of the electrical age, the lighting conditions at night were simple and the line of sight was unclear. Cutting nails at night is easy to cut the skin, and the pain is unbearable. At that time, there were few doctors and medicines, and one or two hospitals could not be found in the city. Even if it is sent to a hospital, the high medical expenses are not affordable for civilians. It doesn't matter if your nails are a day and a half long. Why make this taboo?
There is also a saying in Beijing that children who play with fire will pee on the kang. Anyone with a little common sense knows that playing with fire is not necessarily related to peeing on the kang. The reason why Beijingers taboo this is because children are curious and like to play with fire, which will not only burn themselves, but also easily lead to fires. Children don't know the serious consequences of playing with fire, but they all know that it is disgraceful to be beaten and punished after "wetting the kang", so they dare not play with fire after hearing the warning that "children will wet the kang when playing with fire".
In terms of housing, Beijingers are also very particular. As the saying goes, "money can't live in the southeast room." It is not warm in winter and not cold in summer. " This is the old Beijing people's choice of housing conditions. Besides, Beijingers are also taboo to plant conifers, mulberry trees and pear trees in quadrangles, because there are many kinds of conifers and cypresses in cemeteries, and "mulberry" is homophonic with "mourning" and "pear" is homophonic with "separation". There is a saying in Beijing: "Mulberry, pine, cypress, pear and Huai are not allowed to enter the government." This is a fact.
Beijingers are also afraid that the ground in the yard is lower than that in the alley and the street, because they have to jump into the toad pit as soon as they enter the door. It is obviously unlucky to go out from low to high, just like climbing a mountain.
In addition, in numerals, the singular is unlucky and can be accepted by most people. However, in addition to the number of residential rooms, there are only three or five in the North Yard. If there are four rooms, we have to build three rooms, half rooms on each side, which is called "four broken five". As for the east wing and the west wing, three rooms are the most important. The purpose is to create a central axis in the architectural combination of the courtyard. This line is like a person's backbone and the most important source of geomantic omen in the courtyard. Because of this, even numbers are not popular in residential buildings in Beijing, so there is a saying in Beijing: "Four or six is not bad."