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Holiday gift-giving taboo

It is essential for relatives and friends to exchange gifts at festivals. Throughout the ages, as long as it is not a bribe with ulterior motives, giving gifts is a benign act of people expressing goodwill and harmonious relations.

1, you can't send clocks.

Some people say that you can't send a clock because the clock is the last homonym. Sending clocks to people is easy to remind people of death, especially when visiting patients or giving them to their elders.

2, can't send shoes

The custom of not giving shoes is said to be the symbolic meaning of taboo shoes: shoes mean that the other party will go further and further, and it also implies that the relationship between the two cannot last long. Therefore, in traditional customs, the wife will not buy shoes for her husband, but at most she will buy them with her husband. She should be afraid that her husband will run away with someone else. Others dare not give him shoes, which symbolizes that someone may give him "hard shoes" in the future. The meaning of; In addition, in some places, shoes are also called hai, which is homophonic with harm, so sending shoes is equivalent to causing harm to others, so don't send shoes.

3. You can't send umbrellas and fans.

Umbrella and fan are homophonic, so they can't be given as gifts (except when it rains). If good friends give umbrellas as gifts, it will mean that they will break up or separate in the future.

4, can't send scissors or kitchen knife:

Although these two things are very practical daily necessities, they symbolize that they will make a clean break with each other? , so you can't give it as a gift.

5, can't send candles, handkerchiefs, towels

Candles are used to sacrifice to the dead; In the farewell ceremony, handkerchiefs and towels are often used as gifts for mourners after the libation ceremony, which is also called the "paper-answering ceremony" as a gift, and it is easy to produce negative associations.

6. You can't send dolls.

Dolls are villains. Some people think that it is easy to bring back evil spirits and bring anxiety to the family if they are left at home for a long time.

7, can't send stones of unknown origin.

It is said that stones can easily attract evil spirits to attach to them. Some look like ornamental stones, but evil spirits may attach to them.

8. You can't give people wind chimes.

When the ancients wanted to describe the gloomy atmosphere, they often used "an evil wind?" To describe, so wind chimes are often considered to have "yin"? Effect.

9. You can't send seasonal foods such as zongzi and rice cakes.

Because only when there is a funeral at home and it is impossible to celebrate the festival, you need someone to send it, which can easily leave a bad impression of a stroke.

The above situation often takes its homophonic or negative symbolic meaning. Although you can't believe it, it's not good if you make the recipient feel bad. If you really accidentally choose the above gifts, there are still some ways to make things better. For example, if you really want to send a clock, but you are afraid of bad luck, you might as well send an extra history book or a vase at the same time, so that you can finish it. Or "always safe (bottle)"? Homonym with different meanings; If other gifts are a little embarrassing to the recipient, you might as well ask the other person for a dollar to show whether you want to buy them.

As the saying goes: "courtesy is light and affection is heavy? As long as the giver uses ingenuity to make the other person feel your kindness and blessing, that is the best gift.