There are many well-known folk sayings, often in the hearth of the night to make people reminiscent, some are a summary of people's life experience, some are folk traditional skills, although many have been unable to adapt to the current living environment, but vividly reflect the humanistic life style of the ancients. In particular, the sayings that are closely related to people's food, clothing, shelter and transportation are often listened to even today. And there is such a sentence about living that it is "youd", which is the theoretical basis for many ancient people to build houses, so why do they generally agree with these views? This is inseparable from the social environment at that time.
Mountain pipe man Ding
The so-called "mountain pipe people" is not difficult to understand, and the meaning of the colloquial term is usually clear as the name suggests, which is nothing more than to emphasize the influence of mountains on people and the impact of water on fortune. So is it that the mountains are tall and numerous, and the people are prosperous, and on the contrary, they are sparsely populated? In fact, this is not the case in places with many mountains and mountains, but instead the plains have a large population. Where there is water, there is not necessarily wealth, and the most obvious thing is that the people on both sides of the Yellow River have been deeply affected by floods and floods for thousands of years. In this way, didn't the ancients follow the consensus of thousands of years? In fact, the ancients' understanding of geography was usually unified with astronomy, and they often used things in nature to symbolize the object they wanted to express, which was especially evident in the I Ching. And the mountains here don't just refer to mountains.
The ancients usually thought that "one inch high is a mountain, and one inch low is water." That is to say, the mountains and water here are relatively existent, even if it is the plain of the Ichima Hirakawa River, its low-lying place is water, and the place where it rises is the mountain. Therefore, in the living environment of the ancients, there is no advanced technology to resist natural disasters, so they can only use nature to resist disasters and reduce the threat of the natural environment to life. These natural disasters hurt the ancients as much as war, and it is especially important to choose a safe place to live in order to be able to sustain the incense. The term "patron" has a long history, and choosing a place with a "mountain" can use the high terrain to avoid flooding, dampness, and water accumulation in low-lying terrain. Even today we can see that most of the rural villages are built on the mountain, because the mountain itself is a natural barrier, coupled with the lush trees, like an iron wall, which can reduce the impact of high winds on people, there will be no embattled danger, and a safe and comfortable living environment is naturally conducive to the reproduction of the population. Today, high-rise buildings are rising on the ground, thanks to solid scientific and technological backing.
Water pipe money
Whether in ancient times or today, people do not like the living environment surrounded by mountains and rivers. So how did it affect wealth in the minds of the ancients? Most of the people of ancient China lived in the plains, and although they did not have the concept of centrifugal force, they found their impact on the alluvial of the plains by observing the shape of the riverbed and embankment after the flood. That is, on the plain surrounded by rivers, the flood will wash away the embankment on the opposite side of the plain, so that the area of the plain will increase due to the extension of the riverbed; if the river and the plain are opposite, the area of the plane will be reduced by the soil being washed away by the flood.
Our ancestors discovered early on that objects that move in circles or arcs have a simultaneous inward force, which now appears to be Clearly Newton's centrifugal force. So what does this have to do with "money"? In fact, this "wealth" is not money in our traditional sense, but all property. In the ancient society based on farming, the amount of land planted was the source of wealth, and the situation of alluvial rivers forming land was particularly common in plain areas. Chinese civilization originated in the Central Plains, and the formation of the Central Plains is the result of factors such as hydrological erosion, and our ancestors originated from this, so we regard water as wealth.
It is not difficult to see that the origin of these seemingly nonsensical sayings is often extraordinary. Therefore, while criticizing feudal superstitions, we must also combine the background of the times at that time, and do not apply today's scientific and technological perspective to despise the wisdom on which the ancients relied for survival.