Traditional Taboos During Chinese Spring Festival

Traditional Taboos During Chinese Spring Festival

In less than a month, the most significant Chinese traditional festival---spring

festival will arrive. The whole nation is going to have at least seven days off

to celebrate. Family reunions, lunar New Year visits, gift money for children,

feasts for relatives, friends and colleagues, fire crackers, new dresses, new looks, and so on and so forth. It is supposed to be the most happy and important period of time of year for everybody. And it seems people will be doing everything they have long been yearning to do in last year. However there is something we

Chinese people won’t do during spring festival---the taboos. Such as we shall

never mention words related to “death” lest spoil the hilarious festive atmosphere; we don’t break or damage anything, otherwise superstitiously speaking, doing so would bring misfortunes in the following days; we don’t have our hair cut during the celebrating period, to name a few.

My purpose of writing about Traditional Taboos During Chinese Spring Festival today is meant to be an act of casting my brick to attract your jade. Please tell

us something you know with answering the following questions if possible:

1.What is the taboo/are the taboos you ever heard of about spring festival?

2.Where did you hear them?

3.Who told you?

4.When were you told?

5.How was the taboo/were those taboos formed?

6.Did you ever commit any one of them?

7.What would you do to save yourself from any assumed coming trouble if

you did commit certain taboo?

8.Are there any newly formed taboos during our Chinese spring festival?

etc.

There can be even more interesting elements you can add to your writing in this

less than a month’s time before the arrival of those “taboo” days!

We are expecting…

CharlietheAprilFool:)