Chinese culture is broad and profound, has a long history, and is all-encompassing, and one of the branches is the colloquialism. Sayings can be understood as "concise and easy to understand" words, many of the sayings that have been handed down to this day are passed down by generations of people, word of mouth, people's meticulous observation and summary of daily production and life, involving a wide range of fields.
There are some sayings in it, which involve the construction of Yang houses, from the location, layout, construction and decoration of houses, there are many exquisite, for example, the saying to be told today: "The gate passes through the church, and the family is defeated and the people die", what does it mean? Does it make sense? To this day, does this proverb still work?
First, the ancients paid attention to housing
Due to the limited level of productivity in ancient times, building a house requires a lot of manpower, financial resources and material resources, which is a great burden for ancient farmers, and sometimes, a house is built, and children and grandchildren live in it for several generations.
For example, the location of the house, the ancients will choose the convex bank of the river, rather than the concave bank, the convex bank is called "hugging water", the concave bank is called "anti-bow water", in the ancient feng shui philosophy, it is believed that "hugging water" is a jade belt wrapped around the waist, is a jidi, and "anti-bow water" is fierce. Today's geography also proves that compared with the concave bank, the soil of the convex bank is relatively stable, and the foundation of the house is relatively strong, which shows that the ancients paid attention to the feng shui of housing, and some of them were scientifically justified.
For example, the layout of the house, the most in-depth, but also the most sought after by the room, is the layout of "sitting north to south", compared to other orientations of the house, "sitting north facing south" has many benefits.
Sitting on the north-facing south house, you can make the back wall of the house block the cold wind in winter.
Sit north to south of the house, good lighting, summer sunlight angle is large, avoid too much heat into the sun, winter direct sunlight angle is small, more sunlight into the house, increase the temperature of the house.
All in all, compared with other orientations, the north-facing house is closer to "warm in winter and cool in summer" and "abundant light"
Second, the gate passes through the church, and the family is destroyed
What is the explanation for the saying, "The gate passes through the church, and the family is destroyed"?
Colloquialisms are often composed of "first half of the sentence" and "second half of the sentence", and the colloquialisms often have the role of exhortation and suggestion, and many of the first half of the sayings are taboos and exhortations, and the second half of the colloquialisms add a warning effect.
It is precisely in this way that the second half of the proverbial sentence often adopts exaggerated expression techniques to enhance people's attention to the first half of the saying, you can first look at the "family loser Ding death" of this saying, although it will not lead to the exaggerated consequences of "family loser Ding death", but "the gate through the hall" is considered by the ancients to be a bad house layout.
It can be seen that the focus of this saying is to understand what is "the gate through the church"
Third, what is "the gate through the church", why is it not good?
Between answering this question, we must understand the ancient house structure, the most typical is the courtyard, the courtyard is composed of at least two doors, into the courtyard, the first step is the gate, then to the courtyard hall, and then by a "weeping flower gate" (also known as "two doors") separated, into the box.
The so-called "gate through the church" refers to the height of the gate is too high, from the front, the view covers the building that occupies the second half of the entire house.
The gate is too high, and there are many disadvantages.
For example, the gate is too high, blocking most of the sunlight, making the courtyard dark and damp, the lighting of the courtyard hall is not good, and the plants are not growing well because there is no sunlight, giving people a psychological feeling of decay.
For example, the gate is too high, blocking most of the view, making people feel like "sitting in a well and watching the sky", which may be depressed.
For example, the gate is too high, compared with the surrounding neighbors' buildings, it will appear more abrupt, "standing out of the flock" in feng shui is considered to be bad, called "lone peak", the gate is too high and will not appear domineering, but does not conform to the ancient people's introverted, modest concept.
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Fourth, summary
As the saying goes, it is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients, and it can be seen from the above analysis that this saying, "The gate passes through the church, and the family is defeated and the person dies", which has some truth. To treat the saying, we must put ourselves in the shoes of the ancients to consider, and then take the essence and remove the dross.