These are the foods you should avoid during the 'ghost month' to stay healthy and avoid bad luck.

GĐXH - The seventh lunar month or ghost month is a time when people believe that many things should be avoided to avoid bad luck, and one of them is eating and drinking. Let's explore the foods that should be avoided during the ghost month to avoid bad luck.

Reptiles such as turtles, tortoises, snakes...

These animals are all cold-blooded, meaning they warm and regulate their body temperature depending on the intensity of sunlight. Therefore, the meat of reptiles will carry negative energy, easily causing physical weakness, along with bad luck for the person eating it.

Whether it's hot pot, fried, stir-fried, or grilled dishes, you should avoid eating meat from soft-shell turtles, turtles, snakes, etc. to avoid "misfortune and disaster" during the 15th day of the 7th lunar month and the day of worshiping wandering souls.

Duck meat

Duck dishes are a favorite of many people and are also considered a dish to dispel bad luck at the end of the month. However, some people believe that eating duck meat in the 7th lunar month will lead to "dispersal of the family" or arguments and verbal disputes.

Duck meat is also one of the dishes that should be avoided during the ghost month.

Therefore, duck meat is also one of the taboo foods during the ghost month. Instead, you should eat chicken dishes with auspicious and good meanings to have a luckier and smoother ghost month.

Balut

Balut can be considered a favorite dish of many people, especially young people recently. People often invite each other to eat balut to get rid of bad luck.

But in the North and Central regions, people rarely eat this dish at the beginning of the month, the beginning of the year or the ghost month. Because according to folklore, eating balut at these times will cause things in the plan to be disrupted, contrary to wishes.

Durian

Durian is a fruit that is said to be avoided during the ghost month. First of all, because the name of this fruit has a bad connotation, eating it will make you sad and lonely. At the same time, the characteristic scent of durian is also said to attract ghosts into the house.

Durian is a fruit that is said to be avoided during the ghost month.

White porridge

According to folk beliefs, on the 15th day of the 7th lunar month, every family holds a ceremony to offer food to wandering souls and wild ghosts. And the offering tray cannot lack thin white rice porridge.

If people eat white porridge in the seventh month, it will make the wandering souls think that they are competing with them for food and will constantly harass them, bringing many bad lucks. Therefore, white porridge is the first dish that our ancestors told each other to avoid eating in the seventh month of the wandering souls.

Dog meat

This is also a dish that is avoided during the 7th lunar month. Because people believe that eating dog meat can bring bad luck for the whole month. Moreover, in the 7th lunar month of the Hungry Ghosts in Buddhism, one should not kill animals, but should be vegetarian and do many good deeds to accumulate merit and pray for health and peace for oneself and one's family.

Folklore holds that eating dog meat can bring bad luck for the whole month.

Squid

Squid is a dish that Vietnamese people avoid eating on the first day of the month, not just during the ghost month. People believe that if you eat squid on these days, the whole month will be "black as ink", encountering all kinds of misfortunes and bad luck.

So this is also one of the foods on the "black list", many people advise not to eat, especially for those who have to travel far or have important work.

Bream

Just like white porridge or duck meat, in some localities there is also the concept of avoiding eating grass carp to avoid bringing trouble and bad luck. Originating from the word "me" in grass carp, it implies "whining", implying that everything is unpleasant and troublesome.

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