{"id":18363,"date":"2020-02-23T22:22:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T22:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/taboos-at-work\/"},"modified":"2020-02-23T22:22:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T22:22:41","slug":"taboos-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/taboos-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Taboos At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tShopkeepers may opt not to read a book at work because book (\u66f8, sh\u016b) sounds like lose (\u8f38, sh\u016b). Shopkeepers who read may be afraid their businesses will suffer losses.<\/p>\n<p>  \tWhen it comes to sweeping, shopkeepers are careful not to sweep toward the door, especially during Chinese New Year, in case good fortune is swept out the front door.<\/p>\n<p>  \tWhen eating a meal, never turn over fish when you are with a fisherman as the motion symbolizes a boat capsizing. Also, never offer a friend an umbrella because the word umbrella (\u5098, s\u01cen) sounds similar to \u6563 (s&agrave;n, to break up) and the act is a sign that you will never see each other again. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-37364823\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shopkeepers may opt not to read a book at work because book (\u66f8, sh\u016b) sounds like lose (\u8f38, sh\u016b). Shopkeepers who read may be afraid their businesses will suffer losses.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2875],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-customs"],"views":182,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}