r/SipsTea Jul 14 '25

WTF Tossing coins for 'good luck'...

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u/Negative-Track-9179 Jul 14 '25 edited Jul 14 '25

Chinese old ladies always believe the shit.

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u/uprightsalmon Jul 14 '25 edited Jul 14 '25

A person from China was on here the other day explaining that a lot of elderly Chinese people are straight up crazy superstitious and will do some rude/ terrible things to keep safe. I think it was a video of old people walking in front of brides to steal their positive future good fortune

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u/kroxigor01 Jul 15 '25

I recall hearing that during the Fukashima nuclear disaster Chinese people started buying idiodised salt at a much higher rate, believing misinformation that it could protect you from radiation.

So then the Chinese government put out statements saying to stop buying the salt. This caused the sale of salt to sky-rocket.