What are the folk taboos of the Dragon Boat Festival in May? Dragon boat festival taboo

Taboo 1: swimming

In some places, swimming is forbidden on this day, especially in places where people drown, because people think that drowning ghosts are the fiercest in the Dragon Boat Festival, and they want to find their bodies and return to the sun in body double. Therefore, there is a custom of throwing zongzi into the river to share it and avoid it.

Taboo 2: Bad day.

Since ancient times, people think that the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is an unlucky day, so there is a custom of hiding in the afternoon on this day, that is, babies under one year old should be sent to grandma's house to hide from disaster.

Taboo 3: Don't cut your hair.

In Keelung, hair must be cut during the awning, otherwise it will be taken away by ghosts and wrapped in brown seeds. Women are not allowed to untie their hair and sleep, or they will be caught by ghosts.

Taboo 4: Go back to your mother's house to eat zongzi.

There is a folk saying in our country that a married daughter doesn't have to go back to her husband's house before the Dragon Boat Festival, that is, she can't spend the Dragon Boat Festival at her mother's house, otherwise it will be a disaster. There is an old saying: after eating the mother's family's Dragon Boat Festival Zongzi, the whole family died.