Some taboos of the Tujia

1. Not to move the tripod of the hearth. This is a taboo extended between many peoples that they could have caused in the ancient Qiang. Perhaps be because they think that it is here where the god of the hearth lives, or it is possible that it is a heredity of the need to support the fire without going out, I remember of these ancient times in which to light a fire even was a complicated work.

Only one moves to realize the ritual cleanliness of last day of the year, what he makes think about a ceremony of renewal of the fire the first day of the year.

2. Inside the house it does not kill itself or damages no living being. If it brings in a snake or a frog, especially it is thought that they are his ancestors who return, and it is left to them that they go away alone.

3. If someone dies out of house it is not possible to bring the corpse to the house for the funeral, since it already has the wild spirits that cannot to coexist with those of the house.

4. Not to move the ground of the house not about the graves of the ancestors, this is not to bother to the spirits that they protect them.

5. The first day Mao of the first month, is the birthday of the mother ground (Dimu) and it is possible to plow, nor to water the ground, to bring in to the orchard to receive vegetables.

Copyright © 2004 www.wuhancom.net