Experience is not something that happens to people, but something that people do with what happens. - Huxley
As we all know, the ancients were very superstitious, and many ancient proverbs have been passed down to this day, although some of them are still used, but some of them have long become and have been abandoned by people
。 In the history of China, there are many excellent cultures, which deserve to be remembered and passed down by us, but some sayings, after arousing people's curiosity and learning the true meaning of sentences, should be discarded by us.
I don't know if you have heard the saying "women are afraid of being born at noon, and men are afraid of midnight",
As a law summarized by the ancients, this saying has now puzzled many people, why did the ancients say that "women are afraid of being born at noon, and men are afraid of midnight", what is the basis for this?
The meaning of "women are afraid of being born at noon"
Literally, it is better not for girls to be born at noon, which is from eleven o'clock in the morning to one o'clock in the afternoon
A girl born during this time period is defined by people
Yang is too heavy
Children.
Such a child's personality is easy to be too generous, not gentle, and does not have the feminine beauty of girls
。 And this saying has been passed down from generation to generation, and it has been more and more valued. At that time, if the girl happened to be born at noon, she would be rejected by the family, and even the closest family would feel that the child must not be a girl in the future.
For girls born during this time period, the ancients would even take a cruel approach,
They send their own children to other people's homes and wait until they are a few years old to pick them up
。 The reason is,
They were afraid that the girl born at noon was too masculine to take care of herself, and that she would endanger the rest of the family
。 For the ancients, they called this act of their own as "for the good of the children." Never mentioning the fear of endangering their own family, they have no guilt, at most they feel that they are avoiding disaster.
The meaning of "men are afraid of midnight"
As the name suggests,
The boy's greatest fear is that the midnight solstice will come, from eleven o'clock in the night to one o'clock in the morning the next day
。 The opposite of "yang qi" is yin qi,
The boy born in the middle of the night is also defined as being full of yin, not masculine, like a girl
。 Some people may have doubts, they all say that the ancients favored sons over daughters, and when they saw that it was a boy who was born, they should not have too disgusted thoughts. But in fact, in the minds of the ancients, customs and regulations are still much more important than the idea of "son preference".
In ancient times, there was no B super, so there was no ability to predict the prophet, so the ancients generally had the intention of expectation for the birth of boys and girls.
But if you give birth to a boy, and it happens to be ten o'clock in the middle of the night, then the family is the real pain
。 While worrying about being eaten by yin qi, he was reluctant to leave a boy who was easy to give birth to.
There is no control over the birth time of the child
What grieved the ancients the most was that the medical technology that was not the present after that time could not control the birth time of children, so there were still many boys born in the middle of the night, and many girls were born at noon, resulting in many poor little lives forced to be disliked in the early years.
The ancients would not sit still, facing the situation of not being able to control the birth of children, so people thought of seeking the help of feng shui masters.
Metaphysicians can help them budget the birth time of their children, and there are ways to avoid this period of life, but countless families are happy to do it, all for the good of future generations, which is the idea of many families. Children are the hope of a family, and people do not want to let a new life carry the bad meaning of the person in the early stages of birth.
Why did the ancients attach so much importance to "women are afraid of being born at noon, and men are afraid of midnight"
The reason why the ancients valued this sentence was due to many reasons:
First, children are especially important to a family,
Children are the inheritors of the future of the family, the basis for feeding their parents, in order to make the children grow up healthy and realize the value in the future, every family has paid a vital responsibility. As an elder, it is natural to eliminate all difficulties for children.
The second is caused by feudal thinking
In the old days, people's thinking was not enough today, there was no scientific basis to explain many phenomena, and there was even no excellent medical condition to help pregnant women give birth smoothly.
Backwardness leads people to place expectations and gods, and also leads to the aggravation of superstitious thoughts.
The third is the imprisonment of the five elements in the thinking of the ancients
: The ancients paid attention to the five elements and valued metaphysics, so they have always been very superstitious about the weight of yang qi at noon and the weight of yin qi at the time of the child, and they do not know whether it is a coincidence or the real situation, they have indeed succeeded or failed because of the law of the five elements.
And the so-called "women's life at noon is too hard", "men's life is too soft at night"
, also derived from the previous colloquialism
It can be seen that the saying has lasted for a long time and still makes people shudder.
epilogue
Nowadays, although most people have abandoned their old ideas, there are still some old people who believe in these sayings, such as when they see naughty girls, they will be asked whether they were born at noon, and when they see gentle and beautiful boys, many old people will also ask whether they are boys born in the middle of the night. Although feudal ideas have gradually drifted away from us, the old ideas of ancient times have not been completely abandoned, but fortunately, people have understood the importance of "believing in science", even if the ancient language will still touch people's hearts, but most people have long just listened to the saying as the past.