1, dietary taboos
Avoid eating dog meat and snake meat; Children should avoid eating eel and eel; Avoid hitting cats with chopsticks and eating cat meat; Don't entertain guests with tea in one hand; Avoid empty bowls on the wine table; Go to other people's homes and avoid eating all the snacks. There should be some left. Avoid drinking vegetable soup on New Year's Day, otherwise it will rain in the field, and you should take an umbrella when you go out all year round. Avoid stepping on the ground with your feet, or you will be killed by lightning and so on.
2. She costumes
The traditional costumes of She nationality are colorful. The clothing of She nationality advocates cyan, and the material is mostly self-woven linen. At present, the clothing of She nationality men is no different from that of Han nationality, while some She nationality women in eastern Fujian and southern Zhejiang still have distinct national styles. The collar, cuffs and right lapel are inlaid with lace, and there is a habit of wearing shorts and leggings.
3. Marriage customs
After liberation, with the implementation of the policy of equality and unity among ethnic groups, the intermarriage between the She nationality and the Han nationality is increasing day by day, and young men and women of the She nationality can basically fall in love freely and get married independently. In She society, childless families can adopt their sons' wives in many ways, and many families with sons also let their sons adopt their wives and their daughters adopt their sons (that is, recruit sons-in-law). Generally, adopted children take their mother's surname, and two sons take their parents' surnames respectively.
4. Funeral customs
The present burial of She nationality is cremation in history. According to Bian Baodi's Records of Chejiao County in Fujian in Qing Dynasty, the burial system of the She nationality in Xiapu, eastern Fujian is similar. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, she people migrated frequently, so it was convenient to carry them when they moved by cremation or corpse burning. The earliest She people who moved from Fujian to the state capital of Zhejiang set up a "platform for the dead" in the village, piled firewood, burned the bodies, divided the ashes into seven clay pots, called "three souls and seven spirits", and secretly buried them in seven places, believing that it would be beautiful to burn the bodies after death.
5. Traditional festivals
The traditional festivals of She nationality mainly include the Dragon Boat Festival in April, the seventh day of July, the beginning of autumn Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Double Ninth Festival and the Spring Festival. In addition, the 15th of February, 15th of July and 15th of August in the lunar calendar are the ancestral worship days of the She nationality. She people attach great importance to traditional festivals and ancestor worship. February, July and August 15th are ancestor worship days, and people believe in ghosts and gods.