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Why is it said that it is taboo to give birth next to a fire, expose your body, urinate or defecate, or burn or wash dirty things?

1, Achang taboos

Achang taboos are more, some with a strong religious color, some have left traces of ancient traditions, and some with feudal colors. There are many differences or different interpretations of Achang taboos in different places. Some of them are listed as follows:?

Because according to people's taboos are different in each place the customs are not the same, giving birth by the fire, bare body, urinating and defecating or burning, washing dirty things these are not good, there are special places are available why must be in these places it, and in these places casually bare body is also a bad behavior, and urinating and defecating everywhere will cause some pollution to the environment, so it is taboo to give birth next to the fire, naked body, urinating and defecating or burning, washing dirty things, and psychologically it is also unacceptable, it also depends on a person's personal opinion.

(1) Brothers can't enter each other's bedrooms after they are all married.?

(2) The shrine in the family hall should never be touched by outsiders except by one's own family.?

(3) Women should not be allowed to live upstairs and men downstairs.?

(4) Women must not joke with family members of their own generation.

(5) Men do not walk where the sun shines on women's tube skirts, otherwise they will be considered dishonorable and unlucky by others.

(6) Women are not allowed to sit across the doorway of the family house, which is considered to be a source of financial ruin.

(7) When a woman has given birth to a child, the men of other families cannot enter the yard before the seventh day.?

(8) women can not cross from the plough, rake, hoe, knife, gun and other things, otherwise the knife will cut the feet, rake with the rake will not be able to rake the field

(9) the family's "luck" is bad, monks have to recite the scriptures, kill the chickens a mouthful of, the door inserted in a small red clan, and in the middle of the hall hang a wreath with a straw rope to surround the courtyard Along the eaves of the yard around, in order to turn "good luck". After the implementation of this law, no outsiders are allowed to enter the home within seven days, otherwise it is unlucky, to break the fortune.

2, Bai

Visiting friends or patients, not in the morning, to the afternoon and evening is appropriate. On New Year's Day or the first day of the first month, you can't visit other families. You can only pour half a cup of tea, and refill it when you are finished, pouring a full cup of tea. It is considered impolite to serve it to guests, and women who give birth are not allowed to visit other people's homes.

3, Brown taboos

Old times, Brown taboos. Now most of the taboos gradually fade, but in production, life still retains the influence of a number of traditional taboos and customs. The following are some examples:

(1) No one is allowed to go in or out of the village during the cleaning of the village.

(2) No one is allowed to go out to play or stay out during the New Year.

(3) If you go up to the mountains to farm, you can't live in a temporary hut for more than a month, and you have to return to your village within 28 days, or else you have to kill chickens and sacrifice them to the family gods.

(4) Shrines and family god pillars are places where ancestors are enshrined, and no one is allowed to lean next to them, otherwise they are considered to be offensive to the ancestors and will bring misfortune to the family.

(5) If the iron tripod on the fire pit is crooked, it can only be corrected by the parents, but not by the younger generation, in order to avoid bad luck in the family.

(6) The fire pit is sacred and crossing it is forbidden.

(7) If there is a baby in the house, it is forbidden to bring green leaves into the house.

(8) If there is a pregnant woman in the house, it is forbidden to bring prey into the house.

9)When drinking wine, first drop a little on the ground to show respect to ancestors before drinking.

(11)One should not touch the heads of monks and old people, as it is considered disrespectful.

(12) The bedrooms of the elderly cannot be entered without authorization, lest the elderly will not rest well and will become angry.

(13) Shoes should be taken off when logging into the bamboo buildings of the Brown people to show respect for their hosts.

(14) the day of the death of parents, the family taboo down to the ground labor production.

(15) Any tree touched by lightning cannot be used.