Etiquette taboos of Tujia costumes

Tujia people have many taboos in the language of avoiding Japan, such as avoiding the head in the first month and the tail in the twelfth month. Don't say unlucky things on holidays, happy events and going out. No crying, no quarreling, no saying such things as "memorizing", "cutting off one's skull", "death", "illness", "poverty" and "pain" are allowed on the first and fifteenth days of grade one. Avoid talking about "monkeys" and "ghosts" when going out. Ghosts should be called "short mules", tigers should be called "big cats" and snakes should be called "long worms". Don't talk about "parting" and "leaving" on the wedding day, let alone the funeral. On the morning of the first day, livestock came into the house, saying that "pigs come to be poor, dogs come to be rich, and cats come to wear mourning clothes". Wait, the list goes on.

Tujia people are forbidden to sacrifice stoves on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, and are not allowed to push the mill to avoid drought and rain. Women are not allowed to comb their hair for fear that the rain will wash away the mud in the field next year; Don't spoil the reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, lest the rain wash away the backbone in the coming year; The rice cooked on New Year's Eve should be eaten until the second and third day of the first month, which means that it can't be eaten in one year, which is more than enough; From the thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month to the second day of the first lunar month, adults and children are not allowed to have haircuts, and haircuts will give birth to scorpions; On the first day of the first month, when dogs belong to rats, you can't sweep the floor. There will be many dogs and fleas. You are not allowed to sweep the floor from grade one to grade three. Sweep away wealth. Avoid seeing scales on the first day, and be bitten by snakes when you see uphill; Avoid going home empty-handed in the morning and entering the house with firewood (wealth); In dog days every month, don't pour manure or carry water; Beginning of spring will avoid five days in the future, that is, five days, and it is not allowed to break ground; From the day you plant grain to the end of summer, you should avoid dragons on every dragon day. January, April, July, October, February, May, August, November, March, June, September and December are all "red evil days", and planting is prohibited. There is a saying in the cottage that "the seeds are red and evil, and the grain does not return"; When going out, you will "go out and meet the red evil spirit, and never go home"; Going out to see the time, "seven don't go out and eight don't go back, go out every nine hours"; On this day in early autumn, you are not allowed to pull vegetables in the garden, otherwise the vegetables will not grow and the leaves will rot and die. Before storing sweet potatoes, we should choose a "closed day" to clean the potato cellar to ensure that sweet potatoes are not rotten; Don't kill livestock and poultry on Jiayin day, otherwise it will break the flock; This birthday, you can't slaughter or buy or sell livestock and poultry that belong to the core historical sites of life, which is called "avoid breaking birds"; Within three days of marriage, unmarried girls are forbidden to enter the new house, so as not to cause discord between the newlyweds and so on.

In daily life, Tujia people also have many taboos, for example, it is forbidden to break the ground at will, nail, tear down the door, move furniture and knock on the door to prevent pregnant women from miscarriage or disfigurement of the fetus; It is forbidden to sit on the threshold of others, which is suspected of deceiving the Lord; Avoid borrowing money from other people's homes in the morning, which is called "no money in the morning"; Usually, you can't carry a hoe and hang a dustpan when you go home, but you must use your hands, because carrying a hoe and hanging a dustpan symbolizes a person's death and burying the soil in front of the grave; You can't pick empty barrels and dung barrels into the house, which means you don't make money; Avoid putting umbrellas in class, because only when Tian and Yang Tujia are dead can they put umbrellas in class. Avoid the toilet in front of the hall and the barn in the back, indicating that you are a notorious prostitute (homophonic with "barn"); It is forbidden to wear sandals into the delivery room, which may dry the maternal milk; Don't poke your eyes with iron tongs in the fire pit, and don't pee to avoid fire; In a home with a baby, you can't borrow anything or drink water, so as not to cause the baby to cry at night or die young; Avoid lying-in women entering other people's homes within 40 days, which will wash away other people's pulse dragons. Marry a woman and avoid using a white handkerchief when you get up; Avoid meeting monks and smelling old crows when traveling far away; The splicing of the square table in the hall should be placed horizontally to avoid the shrine, so as not to wash away the ancestral shrine; There is a character stand in other people's house. When you wave your hand, avoid facing your room. This is called "human evil spirit" or "arrow evil spirit"; When the bride visits the bride's house, she should avoid being watched by girls and "four-eyed people" (referring to pregnant women); Old people should avoid saying "death" all their lives, but say "old" and "death"; Don't whistle at home. Whistling is telling ghosts not to knock on the bowl with chopsticks when eating. It is said that there is no respect for the host, only beggars knock on the bowl. People who are killed outside are not allowed to be carried into the main room; Avoid watching snakes mate. If you see bad luck at the meeting, you should take off three layers of skin even if you die. Avoid wearing hemp fiber into the fire, otherwise it will burn; No muntjac in the mountains, no carp in the river; Going out to pick up shoes is a good sign, indicating "upward promotion"; It is not good to pick up a towel, saying it is filial piety; Traveling to see the coffin is prosperous, saying that you can get promoted (coffin) and get rich (material); What is the most taboo of Tujia nationality? "When people are thirty-six, they are mixed." "Thirty-six, they stumble." So both men and women must pass the exam on their 36th birthdays. In daily life, it is unlucky to meet thirty-six (counting children, arranging numbers, etc.). Occasionally: the carpenter's horse board can't sit, the blacksmith's anvil can't knock, the eunuch's horn can't blow, and the actor's suitcase can't rely on it. Avoid saying "red" in front of the tile kiln and "heavy" on board; The troupe called umbrellas "props" to prevent children from being "sloppy" (homophonic with umbrellas). Children are not allowed to pick paulownia fruit, which will lead to eating. Children are not allowed to play with birds, and they can't write well when they grow up. Old people are not allowed to scold their children and grandchildren, saying that it is "the mouth of my parents, the endless struggle." Wait, wait. There are also literate people who write on the paper: "Spring Festival, all customs are free, all the year round, all the best", actually because of a taboo psychological effect.