This sentence was said by Yang Shen, and the original words were: taking a thousand pairs of medicines is better than lying alone overnight; taking medicine for a thousand dynasties is better than lying alone for a night. The meaning of this sentence is that instead of taking medicine to maintain health, it is better to control sexual affairs.
Yang Shen was a famous scholar of the Ming Dynasty, known as the head of the three talents of the Ming Dynasty, and this sentence was what he said, and it was definitely not a rural saying. Now many people are saying that many of the most reasonable sayings are rural proverbs and sayings, which is wrong.
In fact, these famous sayings have a clear source, and they must be said to be rural sayings and proverbs for unknown purposes, which is to elevate rural people? If it is really for this purpose, it is even more wrong.
Rural people do not care about these nihilistic things at all, farmers are the most pragmatic people in the world, crops can not be grown by lifting themselves, it is a bead of sweat dropped on the ground and eight petals in exchange, less work will affect the harvest.
With the development of society, farmers found that they earned more money by going out to work, so they immediately gave up agricultural production and went out to work. That's the pragmatic spirit, and they don't care if they say it.
Yang Shen, who belonged to the famous gate, was the son of Yang Tinghe, a scholar of Dongge University, yang Shen was the first and second in the sixth year of Zhengde (1511), when he was 23 years old, and the official Bai Hanlin Academy was revised and participated in the compilation of the Records of Emperor Wuzong. Emperor Mingwuzong went out of Yongguan, and he went up to the court to resist the advice.
As a result, the stone sank into the sea, and Yang Shen resigned his official position and went home in a fit of anger. Emperor Mingshizong succeeded to the throne and brought Yang Shen back to serve as a Hanlin cultivator and served as a lecturer at the Feast. In the third year of Jiajing (1524), he was accepted by the court staff for the "Great Ceremony Discussion" and was killed in Yongchangwei, Yunnan.
From Yang Shen's birth and growth experience, it can be seen that Yang Shen was a feudal intellectual who was a young and ambitious intellectual, grew up in a large feudal bureaucratic family, heard and witnessed the absurd and decadent lifestyle of the feudal ruling class, and the great harm caused by such a way of life, so he felt the feeling and said such a sentence.
In history, many people have died of excessive indulgence, others do not say let's talk about the emperor first, the emperor is a rich emperor from all over the world, that is really "under the whole world, can not be the king's subjects, the coast of the land, can not be the royal land", his desire can be satisfied by various means.
But throughout history, from 221 BC when the Qin emperor was called "emperor" to the abdication of the last feudal emperor Puyi in 1912, China experienced 83 dynasties, a total of 2132 years, a total of 408 emperors. If those over 60 years old are called longevity, there are only 53 longevity emperors in total.
At that time, the emperors all enjoyed the best medical care in the world, there was too hospital, there were too many doctors in the hospital and they were all famous doctors at that time, the emperor would be effectively treated once he had a headache and brain fever, their life was also a golden food, they did not have any heavy work pressure and life pressure, why did many people not even stay up until they were 50 years old and died? One of the main reasons is excessive indulgence.
There were a large number of concubines and palace ladies in the palace, who could satisfy the emperor's desires at any time, but this also made the emperor's excessive indulgence a reality. Although the tai doctor can prescribe them tonics to eat, but no amount of supplementation can withstand long-term indulgence. So most of these people died early.
Yang Shen himself was the head of the imperial examination or an official of the imperial court, and he was in the core position of the central government, so he knew very well the examples of emperors indulging in death in history and reality, so he had a feeling and said such a sentence.
In addition to the emperor, there are princes and ministers, bureaucrats at all levels, and even ordinary people, all of whom have indulged in excessive life and whining, which is not uncommon in the history of ancient and modern times. Han Yu, a great scholar of the Tang Dynasty, lived for 56 years from 768 to 824, and he was a 24-year-old Zhongjinshi, and it was only 32 years from his zhongjinshi to his death.
Han Yu was a person who preferred female color, and there were many concubines in the family, and in order to cope with these beautiful women, he often ate a food called Huo Lingku. It was to feed the chickens that grew up with sulfur or something like that, and he called this chicken the Fire Spirit Library. As a result, he died before the age of sixty. In fact, before that, he had already died out.
In the "Twelve Lang Texts of sacrifice", it is said that "I am not forty years old, but I look at the vast, and the teeth and teeth are shaken", "Since this year, the cangs have either turned into white, and those who shake or fall off." The blood is fading day by day, and the morale is getting weaker and weaker." Less than forty years old, Han Yu was already blind, his hair was white, and his teeth were shaking and falling out.
It can be seen that Han Yu has already shown a state of premature aging, and there are many reasons for this state, and excessive indulgence cannot but be said to be one of the important reasons.