Why don’t women celebrate their 40th birthday? What are the taboos?
In the folk, birthdays are also very particular. Some birthdays must be held in a grand manner and guests must be entertained, such as a newborn's first birthday or an elderly person's birthday banquet, etc. Some birthdays must not be celebrated. So, in Feng Shui, why doesn’t a woman celebrate her 40th birthday? What are the taboos? Next, let’s take a look at the analysis of Feng Shui Knowledge!
Why don’t women celebrate their 40th birthday?
There is a folk saying that women’s 40th birthdays cannot be grand, because before, their family members had to worry about their birthdays and were accompanied by friends. Treat yourself to a birthday. But the age of forty is a critical time for a woman. She has parents-in-law and a child who is no more than twenty years old. The most important thing at this stage is to contribute to the family. If you hold a big 40th birthday party, your lifespan will be shortened. The fortune at home is also very bad.
There is a saying when celebrating birthdays in rural areas: "If you don't pray on Thursday, something will happen if you don't pray on Thursday." This means that when it is your fortieth birthday, you cannot hold a birthday party. You can only do it in Celebrate it at home with your family, or don’t hold this year’s birthday, otherwise your birthday will be shortened. Therefore, a woman does not celebrate her 40th birthday.
Taboos about birthdays for women
No birthdays twice a year
Modern people like to celebrate birthdays, and some celebrate two birthdays a year, one in the Gregorian calendar birthday, a lunar birthday. Some people celebrate three birthdays during a leap month. Actually this is bad. In "Zhuangzi", Zhuangzi said that there is a chun tree with eight hundred years as spring and eight hundred years as autumn. Its one year is 3200 years, so this chun tree is very long-lived. Therefore, it is traditionally believed that celebrating a birthday is equivalent to being one year older, and celebrating two birthdays in a year is equivalent to being two years older. Having two birthdays in a year is equivalent to an accelerated cycle. This is very unlucky.
It is not advisable to make big moves around the age of 60
In traditional theory, sixty years is a reincarnation, and after a reincarnation, everything will return to the starting point. Therefore, the ancients believed that a person's body, luck, life span, etc. will undergo severe tests around the age of 60; around the age of 60 is the critical point of life and death for a person, so this period is not suitable for "celebrating birthdays", and even "celebrating birthdays" must be done secretly To avoid alerting the Lord of Hell and being arrested. The Book of Changes says "return in seven days", which refers to seven days from the time when Yang Qi is exhausted to the time when it returns. Folks believe that the same is true for birthdays. After one period of time, another seven years will pass, that is, starting from the age of 67, another period will begin. After reincarnation, you can celebrate your birthday normally.