Decode the strange superstitious conceptions of Japanese people

Like many countries around the world, Japanese people have their own superstitious notions. For example, the Japanese abstain from putting the headboard in the north or not killing the spider in the morning to avoid bad luck .

One of the superstitious notions of Japanese people is that when you go through a cemetery or see a mourning vehicle, you have to hide your thumb.In Japanese, the thumb is oyayubi (meaning 'parent finger').

Therefore, the act of hiding the thumb when going through the graveyard or when there is a hearse is considered to protect parents.They do so because they believe that if they reveal their thumbs, it means that the mother or father of that person is nearing death.

The Japanese also abstain from putting the headboard to the north.

This superstition comes from the notion that the dead often buried in the north according to Buddhist funeral rites.

For Japanese people, not touching spiders is considered a blessing.

In particular, Japanese people never kill spiders in the morning because the concept of doing that will be bad luck.

Japanese people are famous for their traditional wooden clogs.It symbolizes the culture of the cherry blossom country.

Traditional Japanese clogs are also associated with a superstition concept.Specifically, if the clogs are broken and loose, this is considered to be bad.

In Japanese conception, the number 4 is said to be unfortunate.The reason is because number 4 and the word 'death' have the same pronunciation.

Therefore, many hotels and buildings in Japan avoid the number 4 to not encounter unfortunate things.