A complete collection of ancient folk sexual taboos

　　Taboos about healthy sexual intercourse

　　Even if there are legal sexual life and sexual behaviors between couples, there are many taboos. Most of these are due to healthy considerations. It is commonly believed that excessive sexual desire will damage the body. As mentioned before, people’s understanding of semen is very mysterious. They think that it contains some kind of essence, soul, a drop of semen, or ten thousand drops of blood. Semen is a more precious thing than blood. Therefore, having too much sexual intercourse will damage your spirit and shorten your life.

　　As the saying goes, "Sex is like a steel knife for scraping bones" and "A person who is greedy for flowers is not under thirty" means this. The age of sexual intercourse and the strength of the body are also related. Taiwanese proverb "If you are scared to death, you will have sex once, if you are not scared to death, you will have sex seven times." It means that those who are afraid of death will only have sex once a night, and those who are not afraid of death will have sex seven times a night. No one is afraid of death, so excessive sexual intercourse between men and women has become a taboo. There is another saying: "The second watch, the third watch, the fourth count money, the fifth burn incense, and the sixth New Year's greetings." This means that when you are twenty, you can have sex once every watch; when you are thirty, you can have sex once a night; when you are forty, you have to have sex every fifth night, just like counting money on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month; when you are fifty, you have to have sex like burning incense on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, once every half a month; when you are sixty, you can have sex just like the annual New Year greetings, and you can only have sex once a year.

　　These proverbs advising abstinence have certain health and fitness principles. Among the people, it does serve as a warning against excessive sexual desire. To this day, there are still many people in society who are highly ambitious and eager to achieve success. They often prohibit sexual intercourse to push themselves forward. There are even superstitious thoughts that abstinence and abstinence can directly affect the growth of money, food, and material. It is commonly believed that abstaining from sexual intercourse can store energy, and thus affect other things and produce similar effects.

　　There are also such admonitions in Su Nu Jing. He said: "If a person is 20 years old, he will have a discharge every four days; if he is thirty years old, he will have a discharge once every eight days; if he is forty years old, he will have a discharge once every sixteen days; if he is fifty years old, he will have a discharge once on the 21st; if he is sixty years old, he will have a discharge once every 21 days; if he is sixty years old, he will have a discharge once every 8 days." If your physical strength is still strong, you can have diarrhea once a month. The strength of ordinary people, even if they are stronger than others, cannot be suppressed. If it persists for a long time, carbuncle may develop. If you are over sixty years old and cannot communicate with each other for several decades, and your mind is mediocre, you can close your essence and not let it out. ”

　　Sometimes, even if sex is not too much, it can damage the body. For example, sexual intercourse is taboo when the body is tired and sleepy. As the saying goes, "If you have sex for hundreds of miles, you will get sick; if you have sex for hundreds of miles, you will die." This means that sexual intercourse is taboo before and after traveling far away. Walking a long distance before having sex will make you sick, and walking a long distance after having sex is even more dangerous. The dangers of having sex are also related to people's emotions. Generally, sexual intercourse is taboo when you are depressed or angry.