‘A baby takes away luck’: China landlord evicts pregnant woman over ‘death’ folklore belief, bemuses many online


By Fran Lu
Ancient belief is that a person who dies at a house would leave fortune in it and a person born at a house will take away its luck. Folklore goes hand-in-hand with another saying, ‘Better lend stuff to new husbands than new wives’. — SCMP

The story of a pregnant woman in China who complained about being evicted by a landlord who believes newborn babies bring bad luck to a home is bewildering many people on mainland social media.

The woman, who goes by the name @Xiaozhuzhudebao on Douyin, the mainland version of TikTok, posted on Oct 11 that her landlord in southeastern China’s Guangdong province asked her and her husband to move out after learning she was five months pregnant.

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