Hainan what are the living customs taboos

Summary: In folklore, taboos are omnipresent, "a hundred taboos" is actually "a hundred taboos". Taboos are like wandering ghosts, fluttering around people, all the time embedded in people's spiritual life. Hainan folk advocate "everything has a spirit" of the concept of nature, so in the local folk religious beliefs, the simple view of nature and folk religious beliefs have a close relationship. So what are the other taboos in Hainan? Then continue to browse the following! Hainan with the construction of the International Tourism Island, the people who come to travel more and more every year, in the ethnic minorities of this place, the residents include Han, Li, Miao, Hui, Yi, Dong, Yao and other number of more than 30 nationalities, of which the Li, Miao for the most.

I. Hainan's Li and Miao living customs taboos

(a) Li - living customs taboos

1. First to the Li territory, they often treat friends with wine, two people and drink on behalf of the establishment of friendship, if it is not able to win the wine should also be a symbolic sip.

2. If you see the door of the Hainan Li family house on the green leaves, outsiders are not allowed to break into, because they enter the house will make the patient's disease dramatically.

3. It is forbidden to talk about monkeys in the homes of the Li people or on public **** occasions.

4. It is forbidden to blow and whistle in the homes of the Li people, otherwise the rice will be cooked more rotten rice or no rice, and it is easy to bring the ghost into the house.

5. To honor the gods of the objects, do not turn over.

6. Avoid sleeping with your head toward the door, because the body will be carried out and buried with its head toward the door. If the guests are taboo and the host is not happy, they will think there may be trouble on the head.

7. Where there are ancestral tablets of the family house, can not put the dog meat in, otherwise it is intended to defile the ancestors God, will attract disease.

(2) Miao - life customs taboos

1. first to the Miao territory, they often treat friends with wine, two people relative to the drink on behalf of the establishment of friendship, if it is not win alcohol should also be symbolized by a small drink.

2. Remember not to call the Miao people "Miao", because it is the biggest insult to them.

3. When you are a guest in a Hmong home, they often give the head of the chicken to the guest in order to show the highest respect to the guest, then you should politely take it with both hands and offer it to the elders present, because the head of the chicken in the Hmong etiquette is offered to the old man; and at the same time the guest's you can't clip the chicken liver, chicken and chicken legs, because the chicken liver, chicken and chicken is to honor the old woman, and the chicken legs are left to the children.

4. Avoid eating chopsticks and bowl collision sound, avoid "bark bark" mouth.

5. If you see a straw marker at the door, don't go in because someone in the family is sick.

6. Miao people have a close relationship with nature, that both in the bridge, under the tree, the head of the house and the stove next to the spirit of attachment. Every festival or the arrival of VIPs, are burning incense offerings, consolation to the ancestors to pray for peace. As a guest, you should not criticize such activities.

7. When leaving, the Miao people avoid outsiders touching the shrine in the hall.

Two. Hainan, some of the living customs taboos

1. In Hainan, do not call the girls as "Miss", especially in the entertainment venues, "Miss" in the local refers to the "three escort lady

1. In Hainan, do not call girls "Miss", especially in entertainment venues, "Miss" in the local refers to the "three Miss", tourists should be called waitresses and salespersons as "little sister", if it is the older women can also be called "Auntie".

2. Sleeping on the bed, the head taboo to the door, this is a symbol of the dead.

3. Entering the house, avoid resting the hoe on the shoulder, which is a symbol of burying the dead.

4. In the house usually avoid blowing and whistling, otherwise not only cook more rotten rice or no rice, but also attract ghosts into the house.

5. usually avoid carrying a knife bag in and out of the house, which is a symbol of the casket out of the house and the symbol of the buried coffin back.

6. Young men and women should not eat the lower lip of the meat of the cattle and sheep, otherwise they will be bitten by poisonous animals.

7. usually avoid hoes, knives and other iron in the stove baking, or pig, dog fetus will be aborted.

8. Cattle, pigs, dogs and other livestock during pregnancy, avoid the stove ash out, otherwise they will abort.

9. Women who are sick should avoid eating dogs, snakes and single-tailed fish, otherwise their condition will be aggravated.

10. Sows are not allowed to give birth in the vicinity of the house, but should be placed on the mountain, otherwise they will make the family sick.

11. Where there are leaves on the door of the house, outsiders are not allowed to break in, or the house of the patient's disease to turn dramatically.

12. When building a new house, avoid crying in the place, otherwise the house is ominous.

13. The completion of the new house to choose the auspicious day of the zodiac before moving, otherwise the people and animals are uneasy, production is not abundant.

14. If there is a god in the house, women should not sleep in front of it, otherwise it will be regarded as defiling the god.

15. Cattle and pigs should not be sold on the day of the cow or pig, otherwise it will be difficult for livestock to reproduce in the future.

16. You must not borrow items from others for the Old Calendar Festival, otherwise you will be poor.

17. The fourth day of the old calendar year, congratulations on the New Year, the example of children's red envelopes should be given to the child, otherwise the child will be ominous that year.

18. When building a new house, widows and widowers are not allowed to enter the house, otherwise there will be casualties in the house.

19. It is forbidden to talk about monkeys at home or in public.

20. Hainan Han people like to eat dog meat, that "dog meat poor people ginseng". But can not be slaughtered at home, not to mention cooking at home, otherwise it will defile the ancestral spirits.

21. Hainanese language, "turn" and "tomato" homophonic, and "turn" the word has "to start over, again, in turn

22. When a boy brings his girlfriend home for dinner for the first time, he can't slaughter chickens, ducks, geese and other long-winged poultry, or his girlfriend will fly away with her wings.

23. No utensils that have held forbidden food are used.

Three. Hainan fruit taboos

1. Lychee sweet and moist, but the heat is very large, there are "three lychees a fire" said, if you want to eat more, you can peel the meat, soaked in salt water before eating.

2. Durian can not be consumed with wine. Because wine and durian are hot and dry things, such as diabetic patients eat with the two, will lead to vascular obstruction, serious blood vessels, stroke. Even healthy people should pay attention to, because there have been cases of durian and wine eaten together led to death, so this point is to be careful. In addition, durian should not be eaten with crab, otherwise it will lead to severe stomach upset.

3. Pineapple honey can not be eaten with honey. Hainan local "pineapple honey and honey with food will die," said, but so far there is still no exact scientific basis. However, it is best not to eat these two foods at the same time, because pineapple honey less water, a lot of sugar, eat a little bit easy to feel full, not good digestion, if you then drink honey, more heavy gastrointestinal burden, resulting in satiety, flatulence and other symptoms, but also cause diarrhea.

4. Pineapples need to be soaked in salt water before eating. Pineapple has pineapple protease, eat pineapple feel astringent is actually an allergic reaction to it, some people feel is astringent, some people feel is "throat", and even some people have nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea, numbness of the lips, itchy skin and other manifestations of the saline water can destroy this biological enzyme. In addition, the appropriate proportion of salt water, and pineapple sweet with the formation of "complex flavor", will feel the pineapple taste more perfect. Another way to eat is to heat the pineapple, can also destroy the pineapple protease.

5. Avoid eating bananas on an empty stomach. Bananas contain a lot of potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, for normal people, a large intake of potassium and magnesium can make the body of sodium, calcium imbalance, is not good for health. In addition, bananas should not be placed in the refrigerator, easy to be frozen.

While so many taboos, we must not worry too much, in fact, the people of Li-Miao is particularly hospitable, they will sing and dance to welcome your arrival, will also invite you to taste the local specialties. Hainan is a multi-ethnic settlement, the various ethnic groups, although they have their own different customs and taboos, but the people of Hainan has always been simple, kind, with a broad range of inclusiveness, and therefore no special taboo taboos. But as a tourist, in the full understanding of the traditional customs of the various ethnic groups under the premise of well-known travel and polite communication, is the local culture should be the etiquette.

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