Chinese before entering industrialization, it has always been an agricultural society, when the people, after making money, want to buy land to build houses and expand grain production, when building houses, they will pay special attention to a lot, everyone wants to live happily for a long time, marriage is happy, and their children and grandchildren are rich and noble. Under such circumstances, how to make yourself comfortable and how to keep your wealth at home forever is, of course, everyone's favorite gossip.
Add tiles to the house
As the saying goes, "if the crock pot is not broken from the wellhead, the general will inevitably die before the battle", the tile is a thing that is fired from the soil embryo, which is what every household will use to build a house at that time, and the water tank and the things that store grain at home, many of which are the same as the tiles, are fired from the soil embryo.
The tiles were originally placed on the roof to prevent rain leakage in the house, and it was not superfluous to place them inside the house? Here is certainly not to say that the family will put tiles, but to warn everyone, in addition to normal daily necessities, these fragile crock pot products or as little as possible, if broken, is not the family's financial loss?
The tiles were shattered, and there was a word called disintegration, and the "Tai Training" of the Huainanzi said that "the king of Wu left to practice the yellow hook, the right to hold the white yin to the yellow hook, and the master of the qi disintegrated and left, and then collapsed." "Illustrative disintegration existed a long time ago.
From the perspective of cultural circulation, adding superfluous things to the home will be suspected of disintegration; the harmonic sounds of ancient folk are like word prisons, no one wants to contaminate bad things, naturally in the summed up experience, leaving a lot of colloquialisms, both the yearning for a better life, but also the avoidance of some things that should not happen in life.
See death as life
In the wisdom of the ancients, they think that such a thing as death is not really dead, but to live in another world, and there is a saying that "seeing death as life", look at the cultural relics unearthed from the Jiangcun Tomb, those small terracotta warriors are not clay pottery products?
Now there are a lot of Tang Sancai in the museum in Xi'an, all of which are mingware, which are dedicated to the tomb; in the plot of many film and television dramas, Tang Sancai is placed at home, which is simply ridiculous and generous, this kind of mingware is placed at home, is it to live with the living and the dead?
All these Tao Yong! What a pottery cart! Are in the death of people funeral items, these things must not be placed at home, the meaning is too bad; put a lotus flower at home, highlighting their own quality, implying that there are many children and many blessings, is a very beautiful blessing, put on these funeral-like utensils, the heart is estimated to be uncomfortable, how can life be happy?
There is also a role in the ancient mourning, that is, the broken tiles are buried under the spirit of the deceased, this tile basin is used to burn paper during the period of the deceased's suspension, and at the moment of the spirit, it is dropped by the deceased's closest eldest son or eldest grandson, the more broken the better, the more convenient it is for the deceased to carry to another world.
This thing is placed in the home, just like it has been hinting that someone in the family is dead, this is what no one wants to meet, adding such a tile to the home, the heart must be uncomfortable! Long-term depression and illness are commonplace.
Most of these sayings are exquisite in some culture, which is caused by psychological effects, but since childhood under the influence of such a culture, everyone will naturally avoid it, even if they do not believe that there will really be anything, they do not want to be contaminated and make themselves uncomfortable.
epilogue
The ancients had such advice, but also hope that future generations will live happily and happily, after all, they all want to be in the same family for four generations, and their children and grandchildren will be on their knees. Enjoy the joy of heaven and become a prosperous family, and become richer and richer in the agricultural society, after all, labor is the first productive force at that time.
Now many people live in the city, the pressure of life is not small, the population of the family is large, the maintenance of the elderly such things, there will be multiple helpers, naturally or useful. "If you don't add tiles in the house", the family will live more happily.