What do you mean by staying indoors for seven days and staying indoors for eight days?

Taboo culture, that is, cultural taboo, refers to things, behaviors or words that are taboo in a certain ethnic or religious traditional culture. In China, folk taboo culture has a long history. On holidays or special days, what can't be done and said must be taboo for everyone. There is a saying that everyone may have heard of "seven don't go out, eight don't go home". Today's auspicious day is to analyze what this means.

The older generation often said, "Don't go out for seven days, don't go home for eight days." Many people think this means: don't go out for seven days and don't go home for eight days. Some people even counted seventeen, eighteen, twenty-seven and twenty-eight. However, some people think that this is feudal superstition, harmful dross and should be abandoned.

However, there is a saying that "seven don't go out, eight don't go home", which is actually an educational word left by our ancestors. "seven don't go out" means don't go out before going out, which is what the people call seven things to open the door: "firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea"

And "eight don't go home" means not going home behind the door, which means "filial piety, filial piety, loyalty, faith, courtesy, righteousness, honesty and shame" These are the eight basic moral principles of the ancients. If you violate any of them, you are sorry for your ancestors and have no face to face your family.

However, there are indeed some days when people are particularly forbidden to travel, which is the widely influential "Yang Gong taboo". According to Xiong Bolong's "No Collection" in the early Qing Dynasty, "secular people are afraid of Yang Gongbi, saying that he is not suitable for traveling, and he is confused because he doesn't understand it. Today, according to it, it is called' House Fire Pig Day'. It runs from the beginning of the New Year's Day, and according to the number of 28 nights, the duty room is Yang Gongbi. "

According to this arrangement, Yang Gongbi should be "January 13th, February 11th, March 9th, April 7th, May 5th, June 3rd, July 1st, 29th, August 27th, September 25th, October 23rd, November 21st and December 19th. 28 days apart. This is the day when it is forbidden to go out and leave home.

In addition, some people think that if the lunar calendar is the standard, there are several days that should be taboo to go out. These terrible days are: the fifth day, the fourteenth day and the twenty-third day. During these three days of each month, it is best not to arrange important things, especially to go out for a long time, because these three days of each month belong to Ghost Festival, ghosts belong to Yin, and people belong to Yang. Therefore, these three days are very cloudy, which is not conducive to people's travel and is a major event to be avoided.