Why can't you hang clothes outside at night to attract ghosts?

Nowadays, many people have endless things to do during the day. Busy work and study occupy most of our time, so things like washing clothes can only be done when we come home from work at night. However, there is a folk saying that people should try not to hang clothes outside for the night, especially in rural areas. It is taboo to hang clothes outside at night. What's going on here? Why can't we hang clothes outside at night? Is there anything unknown behind this?

Usually, washing clothes and hanging them outside is in the hope of sunshine to dry them, so that they can be dried faster and more hygienic. Moreover, washing clothes and drying them in the air can avoid the smell after drying in the shade. However, many people are not used to hanging clothes outside at night. Why?

In fact, there is no rule that you can't hang clothes outside at night. This is just a long-standing habit. First of all, hanging clothes outside at night, without sunlight, clothes are more likely to breed bacteria. Moreover, the weather is unpredictable at night, and dew and early frost at night will only make the washed clothes more and more dirty. So many people are used to taking their clothes indoors at night.

Nowadays, young people may not care much about these things, especially those who live in cities. They hang their clothes on the balcony at night, and there is basically no big problem, and they don't deliberately put them in the house.

However, the elderly will pay more attention to this kind of thing, especially in rural areas. If the children's clothes are washed at home, the old man will take the children's clothes back to the house after dark, regardless of whether the clothes are dried or not, and wait until the weather is fine the next day to dry them outside. There is also a superstition that the yin is heavy at night, and the elderly are also afraid that those unclean things at night will dirty their children's clothes and affect their health.

In fact, it has nothing to do with the superstition that you can't hang clothes outside at night, mainly because the weather is changeable at night, there are dew and insects at night, and the air is humid. If there is no wind, hanging clothes outside at night is not easy to dry, and it will also make the washed clothes stained with dew and other things, so some people try not to hang clothes outside at night.