Why is it necessary to be "chopped up by a messy knife" at the age of thirty-three?

"Thirty-three, chopped by a messy knife" is a traditional Chinese folk custom handed down from ancient times. It means that when a woman reaches the age of 33, she needs to buy a piece of raw meat from the supermarket or vegetable market, and throw it out of the window after chopping it on the chopping board, to symbolize that she has left behind the sufferings she had suffered before the age of 33, and to welcome a new life.

The specific process is as follows:

1. Raw materials: chopped raw materials must be non-own animal, most of the pork.

2. Time:

①The morning of the birthday;

②The night of the 30th day of the New Year, from 00:00 less than the beginning of chopping, chopping over 00:00;

③The first day of the New Year can not be used with a knife, you must do this work before 12:00 on New Year's Eve.

3. Chopping method: as long as the chopping 33 knives, no more and no less.

4. Who to chop: mother, female elders, husband, himself, most of them chopped themselves, do not need others to do it for them.

5. Disposal methods:

①After chopping, you must throw it away, the farther away the better;

②Wrapped in red paper and thrown out of the window with force;

③Thrown to the roof of the rich family;

④Thrown to the roof of the house than your home;

5Place it in the doorway, preferably by the puppy to eat it;

⑥Run out of the the door of your room and throw it to the roof in one breath.

Folklore, also known as folk culture, refers to the cultural matters of a nation or a social group that have been gradually formed and passed down from generation to generation in the course of long-term production practice and social life, and can be simply summarized as popular folk customs and practices.

Folk culture is fluid and evolving, and it varies at every stage of society, and seeks to survive and develop in the midst of the variations. When Chinese society is in the key moment of economic transformation, the people's ideological concepts and lifestyle changes will inevitably be manifested in changes in folk culture, which is an objective reality that cannot be shifted by human will. The search for folk artifacts and the history of people's lives have become a serious issue.

China is a country with a long history of folk culture, folk culture is not only the continuation of history, and will continue to continue. It is this folk culture, in its formation and development process, created the spiritual tradition of Chinese folklore and humanistic character, so carry forward the tradition of Chinese folk culture, to enhance the cohesion of the Chinese nation, has a very important significance.

Folklore is the people's heritage culture of the most close to the body and mind and life of a culture - labor labor folklore, daily life in the daily life of folklore, traditional festivals in the traditional festivals of folklore, the social organization of social organization of folklore, the growth of life at all stages of the need for folklore to regulate! -Marriage people need to have a wedding ceremony or ritual to seek social acceptance, in the field of human spiritual consciousness there are also folklore - many of life's taboos are so: the New Year's Eve from the 30th to the second day of the New Year, the home is not allowed to sweep the floor, if you carry out the clean-up will destroy the next year's financial fortune. .

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