What are the taboos for eating chopsticks?
1. Don't put chopsticks in rice
Especially for the elderly who are over half a year old at home, this behavior is taboo, because it is the shape of "pouring rice" in the tribute placed after the death of their family members earlier. Therefore, it is the biggest disrespect for the elders or the elderly at home to put chopsticks in rice when eating.
2. When eating, you must eat the rice in the bowl clean, and you can't leave any grains in the bowl.
There are two kinds of sayings about this. One is that if you don't eat the rice clean, it means that you will definitely marry a daughter-in-law with a pockmarked face in the future, and the other is that you will grow up with a pockmarked face. There is such a saying that it is actually to educate children from an early age to learn to cherish food and form a good habit of saving.
3. Try not to make noise when eating
You should not slurp your mouth when eating, and you should not make noise when drinking soup. You should drink spoonfuls of it, which is also the same in the west, because if the noise is too loud when eating, it will be very disrespectful to others, and in China, it will be considered as eating like a pig.
4. You can't say "yes" when you want to add more rice after eating
For example, "begging" and "asking for another bowl", because a long time ago, Beijingers called street beggars "beggars".
5. You can't change your seat casually while eating
You should keep the meal where you sit at the beginning until you finish eating, because only beggars will eat from family to family and will constantly change their positions.
6. When you accidentally break the bowl,
People around you should immediately say "Peace through the years", which not only means turning evil into good luck, but also relieves the embarrassment of the person who broke the bowl.
Pay attention to geomantic omen with bowls for eating
1_ Bowls should not be thrown casually
As the saying goes, "break the rice bowl", in which rice bowl represents our work _ career.
That is to say, if you throw away your job casually, it means that your job _ career will be lost.
2_ The broken bowl can't be used any more
, which means that your work _ career is unstable and you will make a villain. So, what should we do with the broken bowl? Since the rice bowl represents our work _ career, we can't just throw away the bowl. In geomantic omen, we'd better wrap the broken bowl in red cloth and then throw it away.
What are the taboos of eating chopsticks
1. Don't use chopsticks to guide the way by immortals
The so-called immortal guide means holding chopsticks with thumb, middle finger, ring finger and little finger, while the index finger sticks out, which is called "cursing the street" in the eyes of Beijingers. Because Beijingers usually point to each other with their index fingers, most of them have the meaning of accusation, so pointing at people with chopsticks when eating is tantamount to accusing others, which is the same as swearing. Another situation is to point at people with chopsticks when talking with others at the dinner table, which is usually disgusting.
2. Avoid tapping with chopsticks
In our daily life, we often see beggars and beggars constantly tapping bowls with chopsticks to attract people's attention. And some people even beat with chopsticks at the dinner table, which is an extremely impolite action. Some people use their mouths to eat chopsticks, which is a rude behavior in itself, and it is even more annoying when accompanied by sound. Generally, this kind of behavior will be considered as a lack of tutor, and it is also easy to leave a bad impression on the other party.
3. Chopsticks should avoid three long and two short
Three long and two short are taboo in China customs. The so-called "three long and two short" chopsticks refer to putting chopsticks on the table with uneven length before or during a meal, which is unlucky. Usually, we call it "three long and two short", which means "death". Because people in China used to think that people should be put into coffins after death, and when people put them in, the coffins are composed of two short boards before and after, with three long boards at the bottom on both sides, and the coffins made of five boards together are just "three long and two short", so it is extremely unlucky. At the dinner table, it is also very taboo to put chopsticks in three long and two short positions.