What do you mean, seven out of eight don't return?

I don't go out for seven days and don't go home for eight days.

People in western Hunan believe that "seven" means "qi" and "eight" means "crawling". "Going out together" means "going to the funeral" and "climbing home", which means that it is not good to leave home, so this taboo custom exists. It is a folk taboo in Xiangxi not to go out for seven days and not to return for eight days.

Folk taboos in Xiangxi

First, the daughter and son-in-law can't live together when they go back to their parents' home.

Daughter and son-in-law must not live together when they return to their parents' home. But don't worry, if you are a son-in-law in Xiangxi and take your wife back to your hometown in Xiangxi, your family won't give you the opportunity to live with your wife. Under normal circumstances, the room has already been arranged for you. In the past, in the countryside, when the room was not enough, the son-in-law usually shared a bed with his brother-in-law.

Second, there are many taboos about women's official holidays.

In Xiangxi, it is very taboo for women to come to the moon, which is a custom. Everyone should remember that the custom here is: when the moon comes, you can't enter the ancestral temple, the family temple or worship God. There are many things you are not allowed to do anyway.

Third, the married daughter can't go back to her mother's house for confinement.

Daughter can't go back to her mother's house for confinement. Up to now, Xiangxi people are particularly taboo about this, saying that if the daughter goes back to her mother's house for confinement, it will bring a lot of bad luck to her mother's house, especially to her brother-in-law.