Chinese Cultural Taboos

This post we are focusing on overall Chinese cultural taboos.


The following link is an interesting article that we found that may arouse your interest.


http://chineseculture.about.com/od/chinesefestivals/a/Chinese-Taboo.htm


It identifies many different Chinese cultural taboos from an everyday perspective, giving examples from work, food, celebrations, gifts etc.


The most amusing thing we found was the idea that you should not leave chopsticks standing up in a bowl of rice in a restaurant, this is because it is believed it will bring bad luck to the owners of the restaurant, as it looks similar to incence sticks being put in an urn used to bring offerings to past ancestors.


In our point of view, living in Australia, putting chopsticks in a bowl of rice is just convenient and more hygienic than placing it on the table.


Tell us what you think?