The news about the birth rate of Chinese has caused a lot of debate in recent days, and I have also paid attention to this information, let's look at the data first. According to CBN, the net increase in the mainland's population from 1950 to 2021 is as follows:
Net increase in population in the calendar year since 1950 (data source: first financial reporter according to the national bureau of statistics data collation)
Regarding the various possible effects of the net increase and decrease in population, there have been many big Vs who have expressed their views, we do not understand, and we will not add confusion, we have found some different angles from the above table.
Focus now on data from 2008 onwards.
From this data, we can clearly find that the net population growth of the year of the dragon is significantly higher than that of the nearby year, and the population of the year of the sheep is significantly lower than that of the nearby year. After excluding the influence of the economy, marriageable people, age structure and other environments, it is basically possible to draw a conclusion: Chinese prefer the zodiac dragon to the zodiac sheep.
Seeing this, I can't help but think about why this phenomenon exists, whether it makes sense. Of course, there is nothing to discuss about chinese people liking dragons, so let's focus on the zodiac sheep.
First, let's talk about whether you've ever heard these words:
Nine out of ten sheep is incomplete
Female sheep, hard-rooted, Kefke daddy and ke niang
The woman is a sheep and guards the empty house alone
And so on, anyway, on the whole, it is a folk saying that the fate of the sheep is not good, especially the life of the women who belong to the sheep is particularly bad.
In the good letters to me to consult marriage, many parents have also raised such worries: he (she) belongs to the sheep, the fate is not good, my child and his (her) can be good together?
Is that sheep really bad? First, the answer: No! And then let's talk about why:
First: zodiac signs, earth branches
The zodiac corresponds to the twelve branches of the earth, and the folk say that the genus is incompatible, and it is the earth branch that is looked at. The corresponding branch of the sheep is [un]." The twelve branches are the same, and there is nothing good or bad in itself.
For example, the zodiac actually corresponds to the twelve months of the year. Can you say uniformly which month is good and which month is bad? Definitely not, every month is the same, it doesn't matter if it's good or bad. It's just that some people like summer, and some people like winter.
Second: eight characters, numerology
Even if there is really a certain bad in the twelve zodiac signs, can we deduce that this person's life is not good according to this? The answer is still no.
According to "Magic can only be defeated by magic". This theory. We look at it from a numerological point of view.
Since ancient times, the most common method used to deduce a person's numerology is: the eight characters. That is, eight men are used to express a person's birth year, month, day, and hour.
What is the proportion of a person's genus in his own eight characters? eighth! That's 12.5 percent. How much can it do even if it's bad? What's more, the deduction of the eight characters also requires a series of complex calculations, and the role that the genus phase can play is even smaller, or even basically negligible, and the argument that the subordinate phase deduction to the fate is not good seems to be feasible.
Third: Why is there such a statement
So-called: always ask why? So why is there such a statement?
The so-called "ten sheep and nine incomplete" statement appeared in the late Qing Dynasty, mainly because the alliance led by Sun Yat-sen at that time was to carry out propaganda in order to overthrow the Manchu Qing regime, because Yuan Shikai belonged to the sheep, and Cixi also belonged to the sheep, which was a kind of political propaganda.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Lin Biao rebelled and crashed on September 13, 1971, and it was a coincidence that he also belonged to the sheep.
Therefore, the folk further have the saying that the fate of the sheep is not good, and we can know that such a statement is mainly due to political factors, and the specific development is not detailed. These are just a few exceptions.
Are there any celebrities who belong to the sheep? A lot!
For example: The Eastern Han Dynasty politician Cao Cao, Tang Taizong Li Shimin, the Northern Song Dynasty literary scholar Ouyang Xiu, the Southern Song Dynasty anti-Jin famous general Yue Fei, the Qing Taizu Nur Hachi, the late Qing Dynasty heavy minister Zeng Guofan, etc., and in modern times, there are also celebrities such as Mo Yan, Zhou Runfa, Chen Daoming, Shen Teng and so on.
Can their achievements be said to be bad for the sheep?'
Fourth: The sheep is auspicious, it is beautiful
Since ancient times, the sheep has been a symbol of good fortune. The sheep is auspicious, and the sheep represents the auspiciousness. Just like the word "beauty" in the word creation, it is also the beauty of the sheep.
Sheep is homophonous with Yang, and Sanyang Kaitai is Sanyang Kaitai, which is also a very auspicious meaning.
Guangzhou, also known as Yangcheng, is named after the legend of the Five Sheep and also means auspicious.
Other examples are too numerous to mention, in short, in traditional culture sheep represent auspiciousness and peace, there is no bad saying.
Having said this, in fact, it is like expressing a point: each genus is the same, it does not matter whether it is good or bad, saying that the life of the sheep is not good, especially the life of the women belonging to the sheep is not good, it can be completely ignored.
In other words, what baby doesn't like the furry sheep? At the same time, I think it is very good to belong to the sheep, there are fewer people of the same age, there is less competition, will life be happier?