Asian traditions/superstitions?

[Ralphiie]

- dropping a bowl of rice = losing your job
- stepping on backpacks = stupidity
- the long life noodle thing
- If someone walks over you, jump three times so they don't stunt your growth.
- The night you receive Chinese New Year money, sleep with it under your pillow = wealth/good fortune
- Eating papaya = beauty/big boobs XDD [although I'm not if that's just limited to Asian tradition. My mom just nags me to eat papaya a lot /shott.]
- The closer you hold your chopsticks shows how close to home you'll be when your older.
- Don't do homework with your back facing the door or you'll get a bad grade.
- women who just give birth are supposed to stay in the home for a month before going out or they'll have die early.
- Don't switch seats at the dinner table, or you'll become very forgetful.
-etc. etc. there's like...a lot. o wo; LOL D:  

[Bluee26]

-Must not sleep with wet hair or you'll get a headache
-Must tiptoe while being followed by a dog at night to make sure that it's not an aswang
-If goo falls to your mouth from the heart of a banana tree, you'll get superpowers  

[Vallkyirie]

MsPearfruit

I know that the number 4 is considered unlucky.

yeahh because in cantonese the number 4 sounds similar to 'death'

annnd never give someone a clock for their birthday and avoid it as a gift in general.. apperantly when the clock stops working they die xD  

[LeonInverse]

- dropping a spoon accidentally means a female visitor is coming.
- dropping a fork accidentally means a male visitor is coming.
- if 2 siblings get wedded the same year they will get unlucky.
- if you jump higher than the height of the tallest person in the room on New Year, you'll get taller.
- A large grasshopper means luck  

[chowchowpup713]

if you eat bread or banana or egg before a test or u fail it.  

[Enchantress828]

I heard giving a clock to a chinese person is bad luck... because it predicts a funeral eek  

[hikari megumi 15]

-salt means purification and good luck.
-its bad to wear your shoes inside the house.
-umbrellas shouldn't be opened indoors.
-if you don't wait for the last person to finish eating, they won't get married.
-stick your chopsticks into your bowl, it's like death.
-to a respected person, you must bow to the floor. <------hate, but oh well.  

[Theclassnerd]

Well I'm not all to sure about this, I'm Indonesian.
If the Oma (Grandmother) dies, then you call your Tante (aunt), Oma, I'm not too sure which one I call Oma, I think I just call all of them Oma.  

[Summer Sins]

Well, adding to the ones you said in the first post, every new year my mom nails grapes to the frame above every door. My friends joke around a lot about why there are raisins outside my doorstep rofl.  

[MixedUp92]

-My mom wasn't told her birthday until she was married because it would be bad if a witch got the date since they use it to curse her.
- It's bad luck for a cat to run into the house. We had that once and my mom started spreading salt everywhere the cat was.
- Crickets are good luck so don't kill them.
-When eating fish on a boat don't flip the fish to eat the other side, you need to pull the bones out. Flipping the fish means the boat will flip.  

[xi-kwoo]

Oh we have a TON of superstitions.
Apparently, my mom thinks I automatically am supposed to know them. O - e
On Chinese New Years, we aren't allowed to clean (vacuum, sweep, clean floors,etc) because it means "sweeping away" the New Year's luck.
We also have a lot of rules about jinxing, in which we aren't allowed to use "you" or "I" when talking about something bad like death or somthing, even if it is just hypothetically speaking. > o <
We also aren't allowed to wear anything white in our hair, because the typical Chinese tradition for funerals is to wear wear white like a white clip in your hair.

Mann I get yelled at big time for when I do these things.
Theres more but I cant really think of anymore right now.
But these are the main ones.  

[24pm]

longer ears = longer life  

[MidEcho]

Im Mein and my parents told me these

-Don't use scissors on the bed while someone's pregant=bad luck for the baby
-Don't sit on 2 chairs stacked on top of each other=twins
-Eat all your rice=ugly husband
-Don't sing while eating=you'll get bitten by a dog

There's more but i don't remember at the moment >.<
I don't really believe them but I still follow them