Shanghai custom 33 years old to cut meat, details who know

According to our family custom is this way: in your 33 years of age on the morning of the first day of the year on the cut meat, to cut the meat into minced meat, as the old saying goes, "thirty-three, messy knife temporary" so you must cut the rotten, the conditions allow the circumstances should be cut by myself, if it is really not possible to have a close family member instead of cutting a good! The minced meat should be wrapped into dumplings or wontons to eat, to wrap a lot of them, and to be distributed to a lot of people to eat, including relatives, friends or neighbors can be, anyway, to eat that day, this represents all of your calamities have been shared out, you will be safe and sound smooth sailing.

Additionally, the custom of cutting meat at the age of 33 is not only popular in Shanghai, but has always been popular in the folklore, the old word generation will comply with, at least I have seen it in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces and Anhui Province and Kunming, etc.

This custom is not only popular in Shanghai, but also in the folklore, the old word generation will comply with.