At the beginning of New Year and Spring in China, married daughters are forbidden to stay at their parents' home; Married sons-in-law and daughters are forbidden to share the bed with their parents, and married daughters are forbidden to give birth in their parents' homes. During confinement, outsiders are forbidden to enter the room, and people are forbidden to step on the threshold and lean against the door frame.
Every seven or eight days, avoid celebrating and visiting relatives and friends; When slaughtering livestock on holidays, avoid saying "kill" and say "release"; Several families live in the same house, and it is forbidden to hold several wedding activities in a year; Don't say unlucky words when seeing off guests, and don't say "thank you" when visiting a mushroom farm; Don't say "turn over" when eating at the boatman's house.
Most Han people avoid eating raw food on the first, second and third days of the first month, that is, the food on the first day of the New Year's Day is much more cooked than before the old calendar year, and it only takes three days to return to the pot. I think it's ripe and smooth, but my life is reverse. Therefore, in some places, everything is ready before the Spring Festival, and there is a saying that the knife can't be cut for three days. For another example, in some areas of Henan, the third day of the first month is Xiaomi's birthday, and rice is not eaten on this day, otherwise it will lead to millet production reduction; In the past, women had many dietary taboos during childbirth. For example, women in many areas of the Han nationality do not eat rabbit meat during pregnancy, and think that children who eat rabbit meat will have rabbit lips; In other places, it is forbidden to eat fresh ginger, because fresh ginger has many fingers, so as to prevent children from growing six fingers on their hands and feet. In the past, most childless women of Han nationality avoided eating dog meat, thinking that it was unclean and easy to cause dystocia.
In the long-term historical development, the Han nationality has integrated the excellent culture of the brotherly nation, and also accepted some national customs, forming its own unique customs and taboos, mainly including:
1, don't wear white clothes on holidays. In Dai Xiao, it is considered unlucky to wear white clothes after the death of a relative. Of course, modern people get married except the bride's white wedding dress.
2. Don't say "13" to others, which is to look down on other people's dirty words.
3. Avoid saying that men are "turtles". If so-and-so is a "turtle", it is equivalent to calling him a useless man who doesn't even care if his wife has a third party.
4. Avoid using the word "4" in many places. Because "4" and "death" are homophonic, for example, the number of patients and beds in some hospitals should not be numbered with "4"; Some buildings don't use the floor and room number numbered "4", but use "13B" instead of "14" floor.
5, men and women in love, avoid eating a "pear", because "pear" and "parting" are homophonic, as well as visiting the patient's fruit, avoid giving "pear", the same reason.
6. When you move to a new house, it is forbidden to "send the clock" on your birthday, because "send the clock" and "send the final" are homophonic. If you use a "clock" as a gift, you should say "send a timer".
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