#Poverty Alleviation In Action # The old saying in our countryside is a very unique style of folk literature. It is used so often that almost everyone will say it. Most of the sayings are the life experience of the older generation of farmers, which is very instructive. In our rural sayings, the marriage saying occupies a very important position, such as "men should marry, women should marry", "marry chickens with chickens, marry dogs with dogs", "smart wives often sleep with humble husbands", etc., have long been familiar and widely popular in rural areas of China.
However, some famous sayings often know the first half of the sentence and the second half of the sentence and are ignored. In fact, the meaning of the difference of half a sentence can be greater, and even express the opposite meaning, such as the familiar sentence "wine and flesh through the intestines, the Buddha's heart remains", as everyone knows, the second half of the sentence "If the world learns from me, it is like entering the devil's way" is the real meaning to be expressed. The saying that the peasant family and the peasant family affairs I want to talk to you about today is: The female eldest is not left behind. As the name suggests, the daughter will get married when she grows up, and do not stay in her mother's house, from the Yuan miscellaneous drama "Linjiang Yi XiaoXiang Autumn Night Rain" a fold. Because in ancient times, men and women married relatively early, and women had to marry between the ages of 14 and 20. If you are overaged and unmarried, the government will have to collect more taxes.
For example, during the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, a decree stipulated that men must be 20 years old and women over 15 years old must start a family. Therefore, in ancient times, many girls, who married at the age of thirteen or fourteen, was a very common phenomenon. If a woman is not married after the age of 20, she belongs to the elderly young women, and she is often pointed out in the countryside, which is a very faceless thing. Therefore, when girls are older, they must marry out of the cabinet and can no longer stay with their parents. Hence the saying "female adults are not left behind". In fact, this sentence is only half said, and the next sentence, the second half of the sentence has several statements, such as "the female eldest does not stay in the middle, leaving a grudge", "the female eldest does not stay, stay and stay to become a vendetta", etc., but the meaning is the same, if the daughter reaches the age of marriage and does not marry, but instead forms an enemy with the daughter, she is hated by the daughter. The "complaining woman" in the idiom "kuangfu complaining about women" has this meaning, which is indeed very realistic.
Of course, in ancient times, when filial piety ruled the country, the idea that daughters had a vendetta against their parents because they were unmarried was exaggerated. But it also shows that at the age of marriage, parents are reluctant to marry their daughters prematurely, after all, once married, if the daughter suffers or suffers unfair treatment in the in-laws' family, she cannot help. Behind the short saying, it is full of the love and love of parents in the world for their daughters.