Xiangxi Folklore (25): the most taboo Miao strange customs - life taboos (2010-05-23 09:25:40) Tags: strange customs Miao taboos snake meat Jade Emperor Xiangxi Miscellany Category: Xiangxi Jinjiang Folklore Xiangxi Miao most taboo strange customs - "life taboos" Miao compatriots live in the place, most of which are remote mountainous areas, the transportation is inconvenient. Due to the lack of communication with the outside world, interaction, from ancient times to the present left behind many of the folklore of the nation, events, the formation of a very different from the field of strange customs. The formation of a folk custom, there are undoubtedly two causes: one is good, healthy, after the implementation of the human body is beneficial, or previously on the benefits of the people have things, accepted by the people, and the formation of customs; the other is bad, unhealthy, after the implementation of the human body has damage, or previously on the people have been harmed by the people of the things, by the people rejected, but also prone to the formation of customs. For the sake of distinction, people call the former "custom", and the latter is called "taboo". Taboos are to warn people that they should pay attention to some things, words and deeds that should be avoided and not implemented in daily life and production, so as to reduce unnecessary harm and danger. Southwest Hunan Miao in the life of folk taboos are briefly described as follows.1. dropped on the ground food, such as rice, rice, etc., taboo feet to step on. Thinking that the foot is not a performance of food, will offend the thunder god by thunder, commonly known as "heavenly thunder". Eat rice dumplings when dropped leaves, taboo feet, otherwise it will give birth to a dark rash. 2. Bride in the ceremony to eat rice, the stool is taboo to move. Otherwise it will be thought that the bride with two hearts, do not want a husband to the old. 3. salt taboo from the hands of others. If you go to the store to buy salt, the salesman put the salt on the counter, the salt buyer can go to get salt. If the salt from the hands of others, called "catch words", that will be scolded later, quarrel. 4. Marriage, marriage feast dishes should be an even number, that is, four dishes four bowls, eight dishes eight bowls or twelve bowls, taboo into a single number. Otherwise, the newlyweds will divorce, good times do not last long. 5. Sickness during the holiday season need to sip medicine, taboo "sip medicine", should be said to "drink tea. Especially at the end of the waxing moon and the first day of the first month, especially taboo. 6. Not husband and wife or brother and sister relationship, generally avoid male and female counterparts; otherwise known as the "men and women are not close", other people want to gossip, and sometimes they will be verbally abused and assaulted. 7. In the over the happy event of the banquet to eat, avoid a mouthful of wine and a mouthful of rice, to wait for the same seat to drink the wine after all, we only together! Eat together only after all the wine has been drunk. Otherwise, it is called "offense" and "impoliteness". 8. When you eat, you must serve the meal and set it on the table for half a minute or one minute before you can eat it; otherwise, it is called "unfaithfulness and unfiliality to the ancestors". 9. Dog meat, dough fish avoided on the stove. Because dog meat, dough fish is a disgusting thing, on the stove will offend the God of the stove. 10. sip rice, avoid using chopsticks to knock the rice bowl. It is said that knocking the bowl of rice will knock away the clothes, is to be poor. It is forbidden to change the bowl in the middle of the meal, otherwise the woman will have to remarry and the man will have to marry again.11. Snake meat is not allowed to enter the kitchen. Snake meat if you get the kitchen to cook, "pond coal" fell in the snake meat, sip will be poisoned. 12. sip rice, taboo against the back of others; otherwise it will be considered rude to others. There is also a saying that the person will be "back flower" (i.e., carbuncle). 13. out of the house, drinking taboo cups to drink, you must first point a few drops of wine on the ground to show that the memory of the two sides of the ancestors. 14. go to someone else's home as a guest for dinner, avoid sipping the master of the pot. Because the pot is "rice mother", also known as "rice root". If the guests sip the pot, is disrespectful to the host, the host is the most dissatisfied, for fear of his family sip poor. 15. Rural weighing meat (buy meat), the most taboo "three catties and six taels". Because three catties and six taels is "playing Persia" the catty of meat used. If weighed three catties six taels, it means that the family to suffer from disaster with Zhu, or sick, or loss of wealth, or farming and animal husbandry did not harvest. 16. unmarried women, in crowded places, avoid showing teeth and laughing. Commonly known as "smile without teeth". 17. Jealous of picking empty buckets or buckets of feces into the house. Before entering the house must put down the bucket of water, dung bucket, hand-held into the house; otherwise unfavorable. 18. not out of the child limit of the child, avoid eating from the killing of chickens and ducks taken out of the belly of the soft skin eggs; otherwise grown up will be ignorant (dialect: that is, mental retardation). 19. the rural areas are taboo wrapped in a white scarf to go to other people's homes; otherwise, the family will think that the white scarf is inauspicious, and will hate you. 20. the family is taboo a pear to eat separately (i.e., split pear); otherwise a pear to eat separately (i.e., split pear); otherwise, the family will not eat a pear. The family taboo a pear to eat separately ( i.e. split pear ); otherwise there will be separation in the future ( split pear metaphor separation ). 21. dropped on the ground of the word paper ( written paper ), taboo foot to step on, legend has it that stepped on to be blind. 22. men taboo from the cool sunshine of the woman's clothes under the drill through; if drilling the past, is going to be the back of the time. 23. go to other people's homes, the master's dog is very ferocious, pounced on bite you, can only be prevented from catching up or shouting the master to manage the dog, can not hit; otherwise called the fight dog There is a patient in the family, there is a small red flag posted at the door, it is forbidden for others to go to his home, so as not to bring the wounded ghosts into the house, the patient is not good. 25. The annual harvest of food, not reported new (i.e., before eating the new festival), it is forbidden to use the new rice broth or rice syrup to wash and pulp clothes (first to ensure that the food can be used for the other). 26. The day of the wedding or the new building of the Huatang, it is forbidden to come to visit the guests or to help the personnel in the host's home to quarrel and fight; otherwise, the host would be angry. Parents are alive, children and grandchildren age, are not invited to celebrate the birthday; otherwise it is called unfilial. 28. Avoid shouting other people's wild names and give other people nicknames; otherwise it is extremely impolite. 29. Women are not allowed to comb their hair in the evening. There is a "night combing a hundred days worry" proverb. 30. morning up, taboo speak ghosts, snakes, tigers and other kinds of unlucky words; otherwise, that day will appear unlucky things. 31. girls avoid sipping test flower fruit (fruit tree fruit); otherwise, it is said to sip the test flower fruit, grow up without fertility. 32. girls avoid sipping Harvest eggs and double yolk eggs; otherwise, when they grow up to adulthood, they will be difficult to deliver.33. Children under seven years old avoid sipping widow eggs (eggs that do not hatch chicks); otherwise, when they grow up to become widowed (i.e., no fertility).34. Children under seven years old avoid sipping chicken claws; otherwise, when they grow up to read and write will be like a chicken claw scratched.35. Children under seven years old avoid sipping chicken stomach (called chicken Qingzi in the vernacular language); otherwise, when they grow up to become notched skin (chicken claws). Later will become nicked skin (cleft lip). 36. children under seven years of age avoid sipping chicken blood duck blood; otherwise, after reading, writing, ink to dip paper. 37. under seven years of age, before taking off the milk teeth, avoid eating eight (wild lily); otherwise, after growing up, out of the teeth are popping teeth. 38. children avoid catching unfeathered bird cubs; otherwise, after growing up, writing, the hand will be trembling. 39. avoid using the hen to honor the God. Legend has it that if you use a hen to honor the gods, the gods will be blamed, and there will be a plague.40. No matter what the red and white wedding, if it's too late, it is forbidden to make up for the gift; otherwise, both sides will be unfavorable.41. Simmering traditional Chinese medicine, it is forbidden to mix water with the medicinal pots. It is said that mixed with water is inauspicious. 42. Jiao lunar calendar seven days to the child shaving; otherwise, the brain to have sores blisters. 43. Rural contraindication to beat the death of the bird (azalea). Legend has it that the cuckoo is the nephew of the Jade Emperor, the Jade Emperor sent it to the earth to report spring, if you kill one, the Jade Emperor hair gas, at least three years, the bird will not come back to this place.44. Rural dwellings, the taboo in front of the door to build a cattle pen, the taboo behind the house to build warehouses. Fear of cattle fence behind the warehouse", and "cattle fence in front of the door is unlucky, behind the warehouse is not peaceful" proverb. 45. clothes broken or buttons off, avoid wearing on the body mending, or on the buttons. There is "wearing even, be smacked" proverb. 46. Avoid barefoot stepping on cow shit; otherwise, the feet will have sores, or open clam ant mouth (chapped). 47. Avoid seeing snakes with each other (mating); otherwise, see snakes with each other (mating) people will be very sick, or death. It is said that people who see snakes mating with each other should quickly take off their pants and shout "snakes mating with each other, I take off my pants". Only by doing so will they be saved from illness and death. 48. When erecting a wooden house in the countryside, one should only shout "rise" or "send", and avoid shouting "fall", "break", "break", "break", "break", "break", "break", "break", "break", "break", "break", "break", "break" and "break". Broken", "slanting" or "grinding" and other inauspicious language; otherwise the master angry. 49. Carpenters avoid people stepping on wooden horses, rock makers avoid people across the rock bar (jack bar); otherwise, tarnish the ancestor, the smith will be back in time. 50. When a beggar comes to ask for rice, it is forbidden to pour all the rice in the container to him, and always leave a little bit; otherwise, he will pour away his own clothes and wealth, and will suffer from poverty.51. If you take a Penny Fire to go home at night, it is forbidden to bring the Penny Fire into the house; otherwise, if you bring the Penny Fire into the house, it will bring the injured souls and wild ghosts into the house, and your home will be unsuccessful (work is unfavorable).52. When you come home from the outside at night, it is forbidden to go directly into the house. Usually you have to go to the land temple and the toilet to turn around. Legend has it that by doing so, the injured souls and ghosts will be shaken off, and they won't dare to follow them into the house.53. Cut nails, avoid burning them with fire; otherwise, the newly grown nails will be crumbly and soft as gray nails (gray nails).54. Straw that has been used to pad the bed is not to be burned with fire. Only when a person is dead do you burn the straw. Burning a living person's bedstraw is like burning the body of the bed owner, which is unlucky. 55. Those who see a dead body should not look at a baby that has not yet reached its full term. If you see the baby, the baby will not eat milk, will be yellow. Commonly known as "see the maltreatment", to "solve the maltreatment" can be exempted from the disease. 56. children should not eat half-raw half-cooked patties, or will grow blisters.