Zhengning Custom Composition 1000 Words

There are many folk taboos in this county, which have a long history. Some standardize etiquette and civilization, some advocate scientific life, and some are full of folk customs. Nowadays, many young people don't pay attention to taboos, only the older generation pay attention to them.

Appellation taboo

Avoid calling parents and elders by their first names.

Age taboo

Tell others your age, men are forbidden to be 45, and women are forbidden to be 18; It is said that this age is unlucky, 1 year is often exaggerated, and 1 year is underestimated. Avoid asking women's age.

Verbal taboo

Avoid talking about other people's physical defects Don't talk about sadness, hidden pain or gross negligence. Call a person dead and avoid saying "dead". The death of the elderly is called "death, aging for a hundred years", the death of the middle-aged is called "death", the death of the young is called "sadness", and the death of the baby is called "blindness, breaking and early". Call the baby weak and avoid being thin, and call it "emaciated". Call your baby strong and avoid obesity, and call it "qi-solid." If you say a doll is sick, don't say "sick" or "naughty, change to a dog". Call the human body fat, avoid saying "fat" and "fat".

Celebration and funeral taboos

When a woman gets married, her biological parents can't give her to someone else's unmarried woman. Filial sons, widowed, childless, pregnant women and unmarried women are not allowed to get married or enter the bridal chamber. Avoid pregnant women and unmarried women entering the bridal chamber. Divorced and widowed women are forbidden to send their daughters, enter the bridal chamber and prepare dowry. Don't go into other people's houses for seven days before mourning. The mourning is less than 3 years, and the mourning has not been changed. Avoid posting red couplets or only yellow couplets during the Spring Festival. Don't eat meat, wash your face, get a haircut and dress up, wear red and green, sing and dance, and talk and laugh. If people die outside, avoid being carried into the hospital; Avoid carrying the empty coffin out of the gate, but hang it on the wall or on the back of a cliff. If you marry a daughter and meet a dead person, the coffin should be carried out from the gap in the fallen wall and said, "Two people will not leave the gate for a year." When the deceased died, children were forbidden to watch. Young people are forbidden to enter the grave when buried. Avoid cats entering the mortuary mourning hall. It is said that cats are easily stunned by corpses.

Dietary taboo

Avoid eating cold and hard things, for fear of hurting your stomach, and avoid overeating at dinner. Avoid strangers entering the kitchen. When mixing dough, steaming steamed buns and making tofu, outsiders are generally avoided, especially women. Avoid cooking in a continuous cropping pot, and use a continuous cropping bowl to hold rice; Avoid changing bowls between meals; Don't knock on vegetables with chopsticks before and after meals; Don't turn the plate upside down on the table after dinner. Avoid crossing the cooker and moving in front of it. Avoid stepping on food or dumping it at will. Avoid eating strangers' food and smoking strangers' cigarettes. Avoid sitting on the threshold and eating. When praying for rain in drought, avoid eating onions, leeks, garlic, meat and so on. When grinding wheat for a meal, don't soak steamed bread in the soup. It is said that if you eat like this, it will rain and thresh the wheat fields. Avoid dead animal meat from entering the kitchen. Avoid oil cakes with meat, as the saying goes, "Blessed can no longer be enjoyed". Avoid dog meat on the table. As the saying goes, "Dog meat doesn't go on stage." Avoid peeling steamed bread when eating. Avoid sleeping and eating. Don't eat onions and garlic when eating honey, it will hurt your stomach.

Etiquette taboo

Don't welcome guests first, but let the elders go first with an open mind. Avoid winning the championship, having a party or banquet in the living room, be humble to your elders, and respect them first. Avoid handing tea and rice to elders or guests with one hand. It is considered disrespectful to pick up tea and rice with one hand. Avoid shaking hands with parents and uncles, punching cards and eating at the same table. Avoid playing chess and cards with your parents. Guests visiting, avoid sweeping kang and sweeping the floor. When taking medicine by yourself, don't ask others if they eat or not. Don't beat and scold the children in front of the guests, otherwise, they will be considered as guests. Don't button your clothes, put on your hat and flip your slippers in public. Avoid shaking hands with gloves. Gifts, avoid sending clocks and watches, avoid homophonic "death".

Seasonal taboo

On New Year's Eve and the first day, avoid breaking utensils, quarreling, swearing and saying unlucky things. On the first day, avoid sewing and farm work, and do not use scissors, axes, saws and other tools; Avoid sweeping the floor and taking out the garbage; Avoid splashing water on the ground. In the first month, avoid shaving, saying that shaving is "very expensive"; Avoid empty pots. Starting from the first day of junior high school, you have to cook steamed buns or other meals in the pot after every meal, which symbolizes that you have food every year and you are constantly cooking. On the fifth day of the first month, men are forbidden to do farm work and women are forbidden to do needlework. On the seventh day of the first month, don't travel far away, sewing, shooting, cutting, combing your hair and washing your face. Don't touch the ground during the prosperous period.

taboo

Avoid returning the medicine jar, and ask for it when the owner needs it. Neighbors borrow salt, not directly. Put it on the ground for others to take. Avoid hitting snakes. If you find snakes in the yard, you should send them far away. Avoid hugging cats when sleeping. There is a saying that "men don't play with cats and women don't play with dogs". Avoid crossing the goods. Avoid ploughing cultivated land. Don't ride a wheel when you are grinding something. Never pee on the cliff and throw clothes and hats at it. Avoid roast chicken hair, onion and garlic skin in the kitchen. It is said that this kind of raw and smelly tire will be burned. Don't hit the cat with chopsticks and sticks. It is said that hitting a cat with a stick will bring the snake home. It is forbidden to use pepper trees as firewood. It is said that burning pepper trees will "burn the tail", that is, there will be no children or daughters. Don't use medlar to cook the pot. It is said that cooking Lycium barbarum will scare the chef, and bringing Lycium barbarum into the house is a big taboo. As the saying goes, "when a Chinese wolfberry enters the door, the chef has no soul." Do not use magpie firewood to cook, and do not use bamboo branches to pay the bill. Children should avoid wearing two hats and carrying scales. Avoid beating livestock with hollow sticks and bamboo poles. Avoid sweeping the floor, combing your hair, looking in the mirror and cutting your nails at night. Avoid hitting foxes. It is said that it is unlucky to hit a fox and there will be trouble. Avoid occupying temple property and cutting down trees on the temple. Superstition believes that stealing money from the temple and cutting down trees on the temple hill will make the whole family restless. Don't plant mulberry trees (harmonic mourning), Toona sinensis (harmonic rushing) and poplars in front of the door. As the saying goes, "There are locust trees in front, willow trees behind, and there is no ghost clapping in front of the door", because the voice of poplar leaves is gloomy and miserable. Avoid planting conifers and cypresses in hospitals. Don't use locust trees and mulberry trees as building wood. It is commonly believed that the word Sophora japonica is haunted, and the sound of mulberry is lost and unlucky. Don't rebuild the coffin, and don't use willow trees. Don't use standing trees (dry trees) as doors and windows. Avoid digging and chopping wood in graves and temples. Avoid destroying the magpie nest on the tree in front of the door. It is said that there is a magpie nest in the tree in front of the door, which is a good sign. The more, the better. Cowpea is forbidden to defecate and sheepfold is forbidden to pee, which means that sheep and livestock will rot their hooves. Avoid picking empty barrels into the kitchen. Do not use Toona sinensis Sang Mu decoction. Avoid throwing women's hair around. Avoid children sitting on brooms, which will lead to beatings. Avoid sitting on a dustpan or sieve, because people are afraid of thunder. Avoid throwing your hair around and stick it in the cracks in the wall. According to legend, wild birds pluck their hair, and babies like sores. Don't gird your waist with hemp rope, because hemp rope is a mourning belt. Avoid sitting on a stool and kicking around. It is unlucky to avoid passing under the pants of a woman who is sunbathing. Avoid men or strangers entering the women's delivery room; Red cloth should be hung on the door of the moon girl, which is called "avoiding the door"; Women are prohibited from confinement at home and celebrating the Spring Festival. The day when parents die is called the anniversary of death. On the anniversary, the dutiful son is not allowed to drink or entertain. Avoid posting red couplets within 3 years after the death of parents. When eating pears, avoid sharing and avoid homophonic "separation". Women and children's bedding and clothes are not allowed to spend the night in the hospital. When traveling abroad, you should avoid starting on the 7th, going home on the 8th and going out on the 13th. "Yang Gongbi" is a special day to avoid traveling. Don't be competitive when going out, bicker and fight. Don't show money, brag, hide money in your crotch and sleeve pins, which have been used ever since. Avoid women washing underwear by springs and wells. Start work, move to a new house, avoid the moon (the fifth, fourteenth and 23rd day of the fifth lunar month), and "Zhang Wang Li Zhao twelfth lunar month", "seven surnames, eight whites, March and September". The number of holes and chambers in the facade of Zhuangzi should be odd, avoiding even numbers. Children are forbidden to wear white clothes and white hats when their parents are around. Men are forbidden to wear green towels and hats, and women's shoes. It is forbidden to wear four or six buttons, and avoid wearing raw clothes. Avoid women wearing men's stone glasses and holding men's agate cigarette holders. Avoid sewing cotton-padded clothes and picking shoes in May. Finish a pair of shoes every day, don't leave them for the next day. Do needlework for others Don't eat it all. Leave a few stitches.