- Don’t tell others you’re pregnant in the first 3 months.
- Re-arrange furniture (especially the bed you sleep on, and other large furnitures)
No building baby nurseries Renovate the house or move to a new home
- Don’t do needlework or use scissors around the bed
Beware of scissors
- Don’t eat crab unless you want your baby to have 11 fingers.
- Don’t participate in wedding and funeral; these things affect your emotions too much and your emotions affect the baby.
Don’t touch the bride or even attend weddings If you do attend a fuleral wear a red scarf.
- Avoid people touching you on the shoulder
- Surround yourself with pictures of beautiful children
- Eat and eat and then eat some more
- Don’t Hammer nails into the wall
- Don’t Stick anything on the wall
- Don’t Sit on the bed to cut anything
- Don’t Place heavy boxes or luggage/suitcases on the bed
Don't Oopen boxes or luggage/suitcases
- Do not sit facing the sharp point edge of a rectangle or square table
- Do not look at frightening or ugly images of animals, monsters, or other fictional characters out there
- Don’t clear any blocked drains;
- Don’t raise one’s hand overhead and hang curtains;
- Don’t watch others while they’re painting walls
- Don’t hammer or knock things beside pregnant women; it will leave a scar on the baby’s face.
- Don’t change the lock of pregnant women’s rooms; the movement required to take a lock out of the door is symbolic of the act of removing a child from the uterus.
Links:
Chinese Pregnancy Traditions and Taboos | Taiwanxifu 台灣媳婦
Superstitions and Practices during Pregnancy | Little Brown Bag
Top 10 Rules for a Chinese Mother-to-beThe World of Chinese | The World of Chinese
last updated 6 June 2014
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