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Chinese New Year Taboos and Superstitions, Things not to do on New Year's Day
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Chinese people believe that, as the Spring Festival is the start of a new year, what you do then will affect your luck in the coming year. There are a number of New Year's superstitions and taboos during the Chinese New Year.
Find out the top 16 things you should not do. Some are taboos on the first day of the Chinese New Year and some are superstitions for the whole New Year Festival season (from the 1st to 15th of the Lunar New Year).
chinese new year taboos and superstitions
1. Avoid taking medicine.
Chinese New Year taboo and superstitionAvoid taking medicine at CNY.
It is a taboo for a person to brew herbal medicine or take medicine on the first day of the lunar year, otherwise it is believed he or she will get ill for a whole year.
In some places, after the bell announcing the New Year at midnight New Year's Day, sickly people break their gallipots (medicine pots) in the belief that this custom will drive the illness away in the coming year.
2. Don't sweep or take out garbage.
The act of sweeping on this day is associated with sweeping wealth away. Taking out garbage symbolizes dumping out the good luck or good fortune from the house.
3. Don't eat porridge and meat for breakfast.
Chinese New Year's Day Taboos and SuperstitionsDon't eat porridge.
Porridge should not be eaten, because it is considered that only poor people have porridge for breakfast, and people don't want to start the year "poor" as this is a bad omen.
Besides, meat should not be eaten at this breakfast out of respect for the (Buddhist) gods (who are believed to be against killing of animals), as all gods are expected to be out meeting and wishing a happy New Year to each other.
Click to see What to Eat at Chinese New Year to Bring Good Luck?
4. Don't wash clothes and hair.
People do not wash clothes on the first and second day, because these two days are celebrated as the birthday of Shuishen (水神, the Water God).
Hair must not be washed on the first day of the lunar year. In Chinese language, hair (发) has the same pronunciation (and indeed is the same character) as fa in facai (发财), which means 'to become wealthy’. Therefore, it is seen as not a good thing to “wash one’s fortune away” at the beginning of the New Year.
5. Needlework should not be done.
Chinese New Year taboo and superstitionNeedle work should not be done.
The use of knives and scissors is to be avoided for any accident, whether harming a person or tool, is thought to lead to inauspicious things and the depletion of wealth in the coming year.
6. A married daughter is not allowed to visit the house of her parents.
A married daughter is not allowed to visit the house of her parents, as this is believed to bring bad luck to the parents, causing economic hardship for the family. Traditionally a married daughter visits the house of her parents on the second day of Chinese New Year.
7. Avoid breaking tools or other equipment
Breaking tools or other equipment during this period is associated with a loss of wealth for the coming year; therefore tradesmen and business people in general take great precautions to prevent it.
8. No visiting hospital.
A visit to the hospital during this period is believed to bring illness to the person in question for the duration of coming year; therefore visits to the hospital are avoided, except in cases of extreme emergency.
9. Avoid borrowing money.
Spring Festival SuperstitionsDon't borrow money during Chinese New Year.
Money should not be lent on New Year’s Day, and all debts have to be paid by New Year’s Eve, and, if someone who owes you money, do not go to his or her home to demand it. Anyone who does so it is said will be unlucky all the year.
10. No killing.
Chinese New Year
Killing should be avoided from the 1st to 15th of the Lunar New Year as blood is considered an ill omen, which will cause misfortunes such as a knife wound, or a bloody disaster. People usually kill chickens, ducks, pigs and fishes before Chinese New Year or on Chinese New Year's Eve.
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If you obsessively take selfies, you may have a genuine mental ‘illness,’ study says
By Nicole Cventic
If you take six or more selfies per day, you’ve got it bad, a new study says.
If you take six or more selfies per day, you’ve got it bad, a new study says. Creative Commons
The term “selfitis” was originally coined in 2014. It spread like wildfire throughout Internet-land before the original article, which claimed the American Psychological Association classified “selfitis” as a mental disorder, was outed as a hoax.
But now two psychologists have published a study they say establishes the obsession with taking selfies as a real mental “illness.”
If you take six or more selfies per day, you’ve got it bad, they say.
The authors, Mark D. Griffiths of Nottingham Trent University in the UK and Janarthanan Balakrishnan of Thiagarajar School of Management in India, say the hoax article inspired them to conduct their study.
Griffiths is a distinguished professor of behavioral addiction, according to the Telegraph.
They conducted focus group interviews with 400 students attending management school in India, because, according to their study, more people in India use Facebook than in any other country, and selfies are inextricably linked, of course, with social media.
They asked respondents questions like, “What compels you to take selfies?”, “Do you feel addicted to taking selfies?” and “Do you think that someone can become addicted to taking selfies?”
“Focus group data from participants strongly implied the presence of ‘selfie addiction,’” the study’s authors wrote.
From the responses, they found “six factors that underlie selfitis,” meaning that if selfies fill your need for self-confidence, attention seeking, mood modification, environmental enhancement, subjective conformity or social competition, you may have caught a case of this particular “-itis.”
The researchers used those six underlying factors to establish what they call the “Selfitis Behavior Scale,” or SBS. Those who suffer from selfitis may do so on three levels:
Borderline - Taking selfies at least three times a day, but not necessarily posting them on social media
Acute - Taking selfies at least three times a day and posting every one of them on social media
Chronic - These are the selfie-takers who have an uncontrollable urge to point their phone at their face and post the selfies on social media more than six times per day
While not without its limits in population sampling (90 percent of the study’s participants were younger than 25 at the time the research was done), the study “empirically validates” what we may have already known but refused to acknowledge: we’ve become addicted to the fleeting photos we take of ourselves.
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