When it comes to taboos, only some people in the elderly will understand, and the vast majority of post-00s estimate that they do not know what kind of custom or exquisite it is.
Some people may say that it is superstition, but I think it should be regarded as an intangible cultural heritage, and I think it has some truth. This needs to be explained slowly, you also have to listen patiently, as to whether it is right or wrong, or science is not scientific, you finalize.
The so-called taboo door is to refuse others to visit or enter the house due to illness at home, confinement, etc. Usually in the center of the door or window, a red paper or tied a red cloth strip, as a sign that prohibits entry and no disturbance, people will be discouraged when they see it.
Now the most common is the door or courtyard door of newborns and mothers, within one month, that is, during the "confinement" period of the mother, outsiders are prohibited from entering and disturbing. Then there is the fact that when someone in the family is suffering from a contagious disease such as measles, it is forbidden for others to enter. In addition to the door and door of the mother's house, in some places, there are also taboo doors to prevent interfering with the patient when someone suffers from certain serious diseases.
After the child is born, put a red paper or tie a red cloth at the door, and if there is a patient in the family, a red paper or a red cloth will be tied, and everyone will understand that they cannot enter the house. Wait until the mother and newborn are "out of the moon" or the patient is cured, the red paper can be removed, the announcement can be removed, and the taboo can be lifted.
From the moment a red paper is affixed or tied with a red cloth, the inside and outside of the door are equivalent to isolation, except for the family members who are particularly close, they are generally not allowed to enter, and babies under the age of one month and women who are confinement cannot go out of the door.
Regarding confinement, I guess many people will understand and have encountered it. I grew up in the countryside, when I was a child, I often saw people pasting red paper on the door, at this time adults would tell me: Don't step into the door of this family, if you borrow something, you can only stand at the door, wait for someone in the family to come out and then let them take things out.
These practices also have the significance of preventing infection and protecting people who are weak and need to rest, and there is a certain scientific reason.
From a very young age, I have known what taboos are, (that is, when i encounter women who have not given birth to children for a full month or someone has a serious illness or infectious disease, they cannot enter each other's homes). In some places, in addition to pasting red paper, there is also the custom of hanging a sieve or luo'er at the door. There are also a bunch of fires simmered next to the gate, telling outsiders not to enter the alarm.
Before, when our children were in the middle of the month, a family moved upstairs, and every day adults and children walked upstairs the sound was particularly loud, and sometimes day and night, our children slept relatively lightly, and he woke up with a little movement. During the epidemic period, the school was closed, the two children upstairs were at home, the two children were also active, I could hear the sound of the upstairs children running several times at home every day, the sound was so loud that I was shocked by the sudden arrest of my heart for a few seconds, and the mother of the child also lived in the building for the first time, so she couldn't think of much impact on the downstairs.
I live downstairs is miserable, during the day I and my child's mother two people to change the child to hold the child, afraid that the child will be frightened by the sound of upstairs. After all, I have children at home, and I can also understand that during the epidemic prevention and control period, the children of the upstairs neighbors also have to be active, so we have been silently enduring, three-bedroom house, our three rooms and living room holding the child running back and forth. As a result, at night, the upstairs did not stop, most of the night also made a series of sounds that can shock my heart, as long as there is a little bit of movement upstairs, I will have cardiac arrest for a few seconds, the child will be awakened, and then crying. Less than a week, I was mentally weak, really overwhelmed, I went upstairs very politely knocked on the door to communicate with people, ran upstairs three times in a row, and then the upstairs also felt wronged that I deliberately looked for stubble, really could not communicate in the end, I found a property mediation, property mediation failed and called the police...
Things went wrong, other neighbors finally advised me, don't be angry, stay up until the child is full moon, I took advantage of the child to move the nest of our family to live in the mother-in-law's house for a while. After the epidemic prevention and control was relaxed, I drove with my family from Xi'an all the way south along the national highway, stopped and went to Hubei, Hunan and Guangdong, Wuhan, Changsha, Guangzhou, Shenzhen along the road almost all over the place, and then along the coastline to the north, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Hangzhou, Suzhou... Along the way, Nanyue HengShan, Xiamen Putuo Mountain, Fuding Tianmu Mountain... I took my family to go over and over again, and then back to Xi'an, the child is also older, the sound upstairs will not disturb him, I may also adjust my mentality better than before, plus I haven't lived at home for a few months and miss home, before I got home I was afraid of not sleeping well at night and bought two boxes of calming brain fluids, and I thought about a day off and began to move. As a result, the whole family slept very soundly that night. Now think about it, if the child had not been able to take the child out before the full moon, if it were not for the epidemic prevention and control, the child and the adult would not have to suffer that crime.
The neighbors on the stall really can't help it, such a special period, I have survived, what else can I do in the future?
In the past, every household did not have a mobile phone, telephone, information communication is very difficult, sometimes the family just gave birth to a child, relatives and friends do not know, from a big place to visit, as long as you see the door pasted with red paper or red cloth, even the best relatives will "go back home". This is the rule, and it is also a folk culture that everyone must follow.
Now, everyone goes to the hospital to give birth, and some live in the hospital and confinement center for a month, and when they are discharged, they give the child a full moon. Now in addition to the general lack of human feelings is one of the reasons, people with serious diseases and infectious diseases, in addition to their own families, other people can not hide, and who will go to the door to visit, the custom of taboo will gradually drift away, so we can see that some people paste red paper on the door, tied cloth strips are also less and less.
As a fading custom, a precious intangible cultural heritage that is about to disappear, how can we protect it? This question deserves our reflection. Finally, I would like to ask you: Is there a taboo near your home, and in what way is it taboo? I hope you can speak up and share with more people in the comment area.