Next, let's talk about what other "taboos" adults were forbidden to touch when they were young.
From the perspective of geomantic omen, the mirror is "yin" and belongs to the environment of "yang is full of yin" at night, so looking in the mirror at night is not good for your health and easy to hit evil spirits.
As far as I know, in fact, candles or oil lamps were lit at home because of poor lighting conditions in the early evening. The dim flame reflected by the mirror can easily cause poor eyesight, let alone hit evil spirits. People with a little more imagination will inevitably scare themselves.
I don't know if you've ever felt this way. When you leave at night, even if someone is with you, you will always hear the sound of knowing your cable from behind, and you always feel that something is following you. At this time, you really want to look back, but you think of the "three lights area" on your shoulders that people often say, for fear of blowing out the "fire" on your shoulders again. ......
Sometimes I always wonder if I am afraid because I have heard too many stories. If I didn't know anything, I wouldn't have thought of such a rich plot of "Apu Lock Throat". ......
There should be another saying in the funeral custom in most parts of our country, that is, the rice offered to the deceased should be made into semi-cooked land, then pressed into a bowl, and then the rice is inverted in the bowl with a pair of chopsticks inserted vertically. This is the so-called "pouring rice".
Therefore, children occasionally put chopsticks in a bowl on the way to dinner without knowing it. At this time, the old people around will scold them and ask them why they didn't say anything. After all, when a family eats happily, it is inevitable that they will commit verbal taboos.
It is said in Ten Laws of Hell that playing a black umbrella in the house will hit a ghost. ......
According to superstition, under an umbrella is a shady place. Some "heroes" in Liaozhai have to take an umbrella when they want to go out during the day because they can't see the sun. Therefore, if they open an umbrella indoors, it is easy to attract unclean things to their homes.
Opening an umbrella indoors is not only a taboo in our traditional folk customs, but even in Britain it is considered to bring bad luck to our families.
In the early years, people were superstitious about wealth. Take sweeping the floor as an example. It's hard all day during the day. In the evening, it's time to check the harvest. If you sweep the floor at this time, it means sweeping away the wealth like garbage, and of course you can't take the garbage out. Moreover, sweeping the floor from the door at any time is also a manifestation of scattered wealth.
It is also said that at night, all kinds of "ghosts" will haunt the world and find some dark corners to stay, so cleaning the house at night is easy to be disturbed and collided by them. This explanation is really scary ... I don't know what it would be like to use a sweeping robot.
In fact, there are many folk taboos like this, but few people pay attention to them now. Today, with the development of science, people are better at looking at everything from a scientific perspective. These mysterious taboos, under the baptism of modern materialism, will eventually become jokes.
Do you know what other "taboos" there are among the elderly population? Let's say it to satisfy your curiosity.