What are the taboos of the Double Ninth Festival? Do you know these rules?

What are the taboos on Double Ninth Festival? As a festival with a history of more than 2,000 years, the Double Ninth Festival has many cultural heritages and customs. Next, let’s take a look at the taboos and etiquette related to the Double Ninth Festival.

What are the taboos on Double Ninth Festival?

Avoid sexual intercourse

In a few areas, there is a saying that "it is taboo to sleep in the same bed on Double Ninth Festival". They believe that Double Ninth Festival is the limit of yang numbers, and after that it will turn into yin numbers. If a couple has sex on this day, the yin and yang will be unbalanced, which may easily lead to other disasters and be detrimental to the reproduction of offspring.

Avoid cooking

There is a folk saying: If you don’t make rice cakes on Double Ninth Festival, a tiger will bite your mother. This means that mothers should have a rest on the Double Ninth Festival and should not be tired from cooking. In fact, it is because the Double Ninth Festival is also called the Elderly Festival. On this day, we should show filial piety and let the elderly have a good rest and enjoy their life.

Avoid going back to your mother's home

In some areas, there is still a custom that "it is taboo for a daughter to return to her parents' home within three years of her marriage." It is said that returning to one's parents' home on the Double Ninth Festival will bring disaster to the mother-in-law, but the daughter's family is afraid that the daughter will be bullied by her husband's family, so they will give the daughter flower cakes to eat on the Double Ninth Festival.

Don't say happy holidays

The Double Ninth Festival itself is a festival for worshiping sacrifices and warding off evil spirits, so it seems inappropriate to say "Happy Festival" on the day of the Double Ninth Festival. Moreover, the ancients believed that during the Double Ninth Festival, the air in the sky dropped while the air on the ground rose, the two energies of heaven and earth intersected, and unhealthy air permeated the air. In order to avoid contact with unhealthy energy, one must climb high mountains to avoid the evil energy of the Double Ninth Festival.