Why do businessmen avoid meeting rabbits on the road?

Rabbits often attend traditional festivals in China. In ancient times, rabbits' heads were hung on the first day of the first lunar month, and people wore rabbit heads made of flour and masks of New Year's flags on the threshold to ward off evil spirits and reduce disasters. On the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, "rabbit lanterns" should be made of noodles or paper in the shape of rabbits. Before and after the Double Ninth Festival on September 9 every year, people hold parties to eat rabbit meat, commonly known as "eating rabbits to welcome frost" to drive away diseases, analyze happiness and pursue longevity. In ancient times, moon cakes made on the Mid-Autumn Festival in August 15 often had the image of rabbits. On the eve of the Spring Festival, rabbits often appear in paper-cutting and New Year pictures.

Some rabbit-related folk customs contain good wishes: for example, in some areas of Shanxi, there is a wedding custom, and mothers should make some rabbit-shaped and fish-shaped buns before their daughters get married, in which rabbit buns symbolize men and fish buns symbolize women. When they get married, the bride eats rabbit buns and fish buns to pray for future generations. Fishermen in some areas of Shandong Province have the habit of "stuffing rabbits with their arms". Every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Grain Rain, the wife will unexpectedly put a white rabbit in her husband's arms, so that he can go to sea safely and reap a bumper harvest. In Huazhou, Guangdong and other places, there is also the custom of "Jade Rabbit leading the way to steal vegetables", that is, unmarried women symbolically steal several vegetables from the garden of the right person on the seventh and fifth nights of the first month. It is said that you can marry a good son-in-law and ensure a happy life in the future.

In Beijing and Tianjin, there is a popular folk handicraft called "male prostitute", which is usually made of clay, painted with rabbit face and dressed in robes and armor. It is a children's toy for Mid-Autumn Festival, and it also symbolizes the Jade Rabbit in the Moon. Every family buys it to worship in order to be smooth and auspicious.

In daily life, there are also some taboos about rabbits. One of the most typical is that pregnant women avoid eating rabbit meat to avoid giving birth to children with rabbit lips. In the past, businessmen were very afraid of meeting rabbits on the road, which meant that business was not smooth. This is because rabbits cannot stop running. If you meet it, it means that you have no business and you have to run around.