Why should I cut off old clothes? Is there a taboo?
In the folk, people usually cut off a piece of old clothes when they throw away a piece of it, because it is said that if a piece is not cut off, evil spirits will come to the door.In fact, this is a very absurd saying that old clothes It"s like trash, how can it attract evil?
With the improvement of living standards now, we buy a lot of new clothes every year.It is not like people in the past few decades have to wear a piece of clothing to rot, so how to dispose of these old clothes has become a problem.Some people will choose to throw away the old clothes they really don"t want to wear, but they will cut off a piece of clothes before throwing them away.Is this just because they don"t want others to pick them up? actually not.
I don"t know since when, there has been a saying among the people that throwing away old clothes at will will be seen by evil spirits in the wilderness.Those evil spirits thought that the people who threw the clothes would be rich, so they came to you to ask for clothes.If you don"t break the wealth and avoid disasters, then the evil spirits will make troubles in the house.Therefore, when people throw away old clothes, they will cut off a piece of clothes, so that the evil spirits of the wilderness think that they are all rags.
This folk tale seems to be made up at first glance, but it has a good starting point to educate people not to waste clothes at will.Unfortunately, this folk tale has gradually been twisted and demonized, and people only remember Avoid attracting evil, but forget the original intention of not wasting.There is no taboo when throwing away old clothes, but there are many welfare organizations in the society today that accept the donation of old clothes.If you have clothes you don’t need, you can donate them.There is no need to cut them into rags and throw them out.Too wasteful and contrary to the starting point of that folk tale.