Why is it taboo to celebrate birthdays for the elderly in rural areas?

Shoumu is actually called coffin in rural dialect, and Shoumu is a civilized saying. Craftsmen who make long-lived wood are usually carpenters. This kind of carpenter has unwritten rules among the people. Usually, he can only do the work related to Shoumu, but can't get involved in the daily work of some rural people, such as building houses, playing furniture, decorating, and even carpentry. Because making longevity trees serves the dead, there are more or less taboos in rural areas.

The saying that rural craftsmen can't make long-lived wood by themselves.

Rural carpenters make long-lived wood, which is usually made by traditional families. In other words, the thread of building a long-lived tree begins with ancestors and is passed on to future generations. Future generations should also focus on building long-lived trees, and cannot easily switch to other jobs. Unless it is passed on to this generation, her children are all daughters, and they may not be able to inherit this profession. Legend has it that men are yang and women are yin. The line that makes longevity wood itself serves the dead, and the dead is "the underworld?" People. And women's five elements belong to yin, and doing things for the dead means bad luck to themselves and the dead. Besides, there are few women carpenters among the people themselves.

Making long-lived wood is also very particular. In the past, some big families, that is, the families of the rich, were generally called semi-aborigines at the age of one before the old man's life. 59, 69, 79, etc. ), you will go to Shoumu Store to order Shoumu. Rich people generally order better wooden longevity trees. Even the finest mahogany, rosewood and the like. Carve dragons and phoenixes on it, and cover the surface with good tung oil or paint. Some are even embedded in gold and silver. Like? If you haven't enjoyed enough wealth in this life, how can you be extravagant when you are buried? .

Of course, Shoumu will be taken home before he dies, and a big banquet will be treated as a happy event.

For some people who used to live in poverty, it is enough to have a quilt after death. Usually, some poor families with poor living conditions usually go to Shoumu store to buy Shoumu thin coffins before or after the death of the deceased to protect their ancestors. Since the Shoumu store is to make longevity materials for the deceased, since ancient times, the Shoumu store has no credit. And some poor families can't afford more money at the moment, so they have to buy some thin coffins made of inferior wood, and they don't pay attention to materials, let alone carve dragons and paint phoenixes.

A craftsman who is a long-lived wood cannot make his own long-lived wood. There is a saying in the folk countryside. Carpenters who make longevity trees generally inherit family crafts. After half a century, the master (the elder in the family, the inheritor of longevity wood craft) needs to choose a few auspicious days, and after the master chooses and approves, under the supervision and guidance of the master (the elder), he personally makes longevity wood for the master. No matter how good the inheritor's craftsmanship is, even if he is better at making longevity wood than the master, he should humbly accept the master's advice and even scold him. Because this is the last time for the inheritor to guide the inheritor's craft learning. It also marks that the inheritor has since closed down and is no longer engaged in the business of making longevity trees.

Those who make immortal trees must be disciples (inheritors and disciples) themselves. This indicates that the ancestors are unbeaten and there are successors. Even if you know your end, you can't make yourself an immortal tree. Legend has it that this is ancestral training. Legend has it that the man who made the longevity tree built a longevity tree for himself and cut off his work and his own road; Cut yourself off; Severing one's family was the biggest taboo for practitioners at that time.

Rural craftsmen also have these exquisite.

Carpenters don't trim edges. There's a saying? Long carpenter, short blacksmith? . It means that carpenters generally don't use wood of just the right length. Generally speaking, in a carpenter's job, a piece of wood needs to grow. Even if it is used for too long, the craftsman would rather cut it down. This is in line with the carpenter's logic and cannot shorten his work.

Butchers don't kill pigs with five claws. In a single number, 9 and 5 are the largest numbers in the singular. ? Ninth Five-Year Plan? That's what it means. In the past, only the dragon on the emperor's robe had five claws, and it was strange that the pig had five claws. If you associate it with five claws, who dares to lie to you?

Masons never touch their own pits. In the past, every farmer built his own toilet. In the past, it was not called a toilet in the countryside, but a toilet pit. Just choose a good place, dig a hole in the ground, and then ask the masons to brick the hole and paint it conditionally. And this pit is called a pit, which is used when the family is convenient. Masons can't use this pit, that is to say, they can't pull their own shit or urine to dirty their craft.

To sum it up. The times have developed and society has progressed. Mankind has entered a new era of civilization. Some crafts and practices handed down in the past have disappeared in many places. In the eyes of modern people, we can't understand what some craftsmen did in the past, or we think it's superstition. However, things are divided into two. When inheriting the past civilization, it is inevitable that there will be residues of its dross. We should accept and accept them with prudence and tolerance, because these are the paths taken by our ancestors.