Introduction: Half of July is the Ghost Festival, because every year on the Ghost Festival, the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the gates of ghosts will open, and the imprisoned ghosts will come out and move around, and will not return to the underworld until the end of July. Therefore, Half of July is known as the Ghost Festival among the people. In order to avoid meeting ghosts when going out, people have listed many taboos. The following is a complete list of taboos for the Ghost Festival on July 15th. Let’s take a look at the taboos on the Ghost Festival on July 15th. Bar.

1. Avoid hanging wind chimes on the bedside. On the Ghost Festival of July 15th, it is best not to hang wind chimes at home, because wind chimes can easily attract "good brothers", and people are most likely to be attracted to them when they are sleeping. "Invasion" moment. 2. Avoid going out at night. People with light horoscopes must not go out at night on the Ghost Festival, July 15th, otherwise they will only ask for trouble. 3. Avoid burning the ghost paper on non-specific occasions. The ghost paper is burned to good brothers, and the gold paper is burned to gods. If you burn the ghost paper randomly, it will only attract more good brothers. 4. Don’t eat the sacrifices secretly. The sacrifices are food belonging to the “good brothers”. Using them without their consent will only bring you intractable bad luck. 5. Avoid whistling. If you whistle on the night of July 15th Ghost Festival, be careful that your good friend likes you. 6. Avoid calling by name. On July 15th, do not call by name at night. Try to use code names to avoid being remembered by your good friends. 7. Avoid swimming. It is best not to swim in the water on July 15th, the Ghost Festival. At this time, good brothers will play a game of ghost lifting with you. If you are not careful, your life will be taken away.

8. Avoid looking around. Good friends like to hide and scare people. If you look around and get scared, it is the best time for them to invade you. 9. Don’t place the banyan tree at the door of your home because the banyan tree is a plant that collects shade and is also the favorite of good friends, unless you want your good friends to come and sit at home. 10. Avoid staying up late. People are most weak late at night, and ghost spirits are at their strongest late at night. Staying up late can easily lead to the invasion of discouragement. 11. Avoid leaning against the wall. Good friends usually like to cling to the cold wall to rest. This can easily lead to ghosts. 12. Don’t pick up money on the roadside. This money is used to buy money from Niutou Horsemen. If you infringe on their things, you will be easily punished by them. 13. Don’t look back easily. When walking in the wilderness or a sparsely populated place, you feel as if someone is calling you. Don’t look back easily. That may be a good friend. 14. Avoid hooking up with each other everywhere. There are three fires on a person's body, one on the top of the head and one on the left and right shoulders. As long as one of them is extinguished, it is easy for a good brother to get involved.

15. Don’t put the toe of your slipper towards the bed. Good friends will look at the direction of the toe of your toe to determine where a stranger is. If you put the toe of your slipper towards the bed, your good friend will go to bed and sleep with you. 16. Avoid inserting chopsticks in the middle of the rice. This is the mode of worship, just like inserting incense on the incense burner. This will only attract good brothers to share the food with you. 17. Avoid being alone. It is true that a person can easily arouse the covetousness of good brothers. 18. Avoid taking photos at night. On the Ghost Festival of July 15th, it is unlucky to take photos at night. This action may easily bring friends from the spirit world in and take them home. 19. Avoid playing with the fairy. Bad things can easily happen if you play with the fairy at ordinary times, not to mention during the Ghost Festival on July 15th. 20. Avoid placing slippers neatly beside the bed. When traveling, putting slippers neatly beside the bed will attract the curiosity of friends from the spirit world and cause them to make bed trouble. 21. Avoid drying clothes in the middle of the night. Wet clothes can easily cause free radio waves to stick to them, making it difficult to escape. In the ghost month when ghosts are everywhere, hanging clothes in the middle of the night is like setting a trap to catch ghosts. If it doesn't trouble you, who will it? 22. Avoid sleeping with your hair disheveled. During the Ghost Month, there are wandering ghosts everywhere. If you have your hair disheveled, be careful of them mistaking you for the same kind and forcing you to get up and chat.

23. Taboos during the menstrual period. Folks believe that women are unclean during their menstrual period. It is not advisable to watch construction work, sacrifices, etc., in order to avoid offending the gods, causing misfortune, or making the fortifications unable to proceed smoothly. Regardless of whether this statement is unfounded or not, female compatriots do have unstable magnetic fields due to their physical conditions during menstruation, and are easily affected by other strong magnetic fields, so they should be more cautious. 24. Avoid celebrating birthdays in the middle of the night. People born in July are a bit pitiful. When celebrating their birthdays at night, there will probably be some unknown people singing happy birthday together. It is better to celebrate during the day. 25. Avoid catching dragonflies and katydids. People believe that these two insects are the incarnations of ghosts. If you catch them randomly, be careful to attract ghosts to your door. 26. Avoid talking about ghosts. On the day of Purdue in the Zhongyuan Dynasty, ghosts almost come out and are everywhere. Especially the site of the Purdue Dharma Conference is definitely full of "ghosts". Therefore, during the Zhongyuan Purification, it is best to be cautious in your words and deeds. In addition to not saying the word "ghost", don't talk nonsense. Be careful that ghosts are around you! 27. Avoid stepping on the ghost paper. The ghost paper is a sacrifice to the ghosts. When it is burned, the ghosts will gather around to pick it up. If you step on the ghost paper and jump around while burning it, there is no guarantee that it will not hinder them. Action, the ghosts will naturally be detrimental to you when they are angry. 28. Avoid patting others on the shoulders. This taboo is related to folk customs. Folks believe that everyone has three fires on their bodies, which gather on the shoulders and the top of the head to prevent ghosts from getting close.

Therefore, if you randomly slap someone on the shoulder during the Zhongyuan period when there are the most ghosts, isn't it because you want to extinguish the other person's fire and make the ghosts cause trouble for you?