The life of beggars in the Republic of China period was miserable, especially some elderly beggars, and their lives were even more sloppy. But you don't know that once the beggar celebrates his 73rd birthday, he will be taken care of by some people, and even some people will dedicate their lives to the elderly. What's going on here? If you want to know, let Xiaobian reveal the secret for you:
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The Republic of China period is the most chaotic period in China's modern history, from the opium war in 1840, China has gradually degenerated into the abyss of semi-feudal colonies, coupled with the weakness of the poor and the years of war and natural disasters, resulting in many peasants being bankrupt, and even some people directly reduced to beggars, living on begging all day.
From the political point of view at that time, Beijing was undoubtedly the center of North China, and as a large number of urban unemployed people also lost their source of livelihood and began to join the army of beggars, over time, the group of beggars began to grow larger and larger, and the factors of social instability increased. In order to be able to control the beggar group, the warlord government acquiesced to the formation of the beggar gang and used the method of "governing the beggars with the beggars" to minimize the risk coefficient of social security.
Beggars have their own organization, which is known as the "beggar gang", which can not only restrain the behavior of beggars, but also subsidize some beggars who have no viability value, ensuring that they will not die of hunger and cold. Of course, beggars who have lost the ability to live cannot get much satisfaction, especially some elderly beggars, and they cannot compare with young beggars in life. After all, the latter's legs and feet are flexible and can speak, but the old beggar can only tremble and reach out for money, and his miserable condition is extremely miserable. But the elderly beggars also have their own "spring", because once they pass the 73-year-old mark, there will be someone to retire them.
The folk proverb says "Seventy-three, eighty-four, Yama does not tell himself to go", which means that seventy-three and eighty-four are the most likely to die, so as long as you spend seventy-three years old, you can become a real "life star". But the problem is also this, if the rich man who lives a carefree life can live a long life, the whole family will rejoice, but the old beggar has a bad fate and no life, even if he lives to a hundred years old? In fact, we have overlooked that in ancient times, when the average age was low, people's obsession with life expectancy should not be underestimated.
Once the old beggars have passed the age of 73, they become real "birthday stars", and some people are convinced that this person has a blessing and even compete to be close to him. Of course, there is also a special group of people who are specifically trying to live a long life for the purpose of worshipping old beggars as dry fathers. In most rural areas in the past, parents named their children very casually, such as dogs, dog leftovers, two cows, iron eggs, etc., the reason is that some parents stubbornly believe that if they give their children a low name, the children will be "easy to feed", or even a hundred diseases. But what should I do if my child gets sick and can't be cured? Parents also have a way, that is, to worship the old birthday star beggar as a dry father.
When a sick child worships a beggar's father, he needs to perform a grand ceremony, and friends and relatives must be witnesses. The old life star admits that the other party is his son and promises to share his "blessings" with the child, but the conditions are also very harsh, that is, the sick child must serve the father after the illness is cured, until the end of his pension. From this point of view, the interests between the two sides are completely based on superstition, and the two sides take what they need.
Speaking of this, we should not evaluate the ancient people from the perspective of modern people's knowledge reserves and perspectives, in the ancient times when the productive forces were not developed, not only the common people, but even the princes and nobles also had similar superstitious ideas. For example, the nickname of Emperor Wu of Han is called "Yan'er", which means little piglet or small wild boar; and the nickname of Li Zhi of Tang Gaozong is called "Pheasant Slave", which means little pheasant. Even some ancient high-ranking officials will also divinate the child's life through fortune telling, once the child's road ahead is bumpy, they will order the child to recognize the road as a dry father, if it is calculated that the child may encounter water danger, he will not hesitate to let the child be the dry son of the river, in short, the custom of taking a low name and worshiping the dry father has always been a more popular practice in ancient society, and there is no difference.
In today's society, the custom of recognizing the father has ceased to exist, and behind its gradual fading out of people's vision, it is actually showing the development results of modern education, ignorance and feudal ideas will eventually be eliminated, replaced by science and progress.
References: "Chinese Beggar Gang" by Lei Fang published by Jiangsu Ancient Books Publishing House
Wen xiucai, editor-in-chief of Wenlan Hairun Studio, written by: Special history writer: Changshan Zhao Zi worm