Birth, old age, illness and death is a cycle of life, and everyone in the world is not exempt from the world. Death, though awe-inspiring and frightening, has to be faced. After death, in order to express the remembrance and respect for the deceased, every festival of sacrifice, posterity will go to the ancestral tomb to place tributes and burn paper money to express the mourning and remembrance of the ancestors of the descendants. To put it more simply, it is that future generations have not forgotten their ancestors. There is a saying that "no matter how hungry you are, you don't eat the grave offering, and if you are tired, you don't sit on a human flesh stool" is related to sacrifice.
First, if you are hungry, you will not eat the pre-grave offering.
The meaning of this saying is: "Even if a person is hungry, do not eat the tribute before the grave." So can the tribute in front of the tomb be eaten? What does this saying mean?
After the sacrifice is over, what happens to the tribute in front of the tomb? There are actually two forms. It depends on the local customs.
(1) The first is to bring home the offerings after the sacrifice is over, and the family members will eat them one by one. As we all know, among the ancient people, no one should laugh at anyone, and the families are relatively poor. Generally, the tribute is placed on meat, pasta, fruit, drinks and the like. These things seem so ordinary, but in ancient times, they were two completely different concepts. In ancient times, it was good to be able to eat enough, and the tribute was tightened and the belt was barely purchased. It would be a pity to throw it away like that. Advocating frugality was also a virtue of the ancients. Now that the sacrifice is over, the ancestors have also enjoyed the wishes of the descendants. Tribute also loses its value of existence. Taking it home and giving it to your family to eat also avoids waste.
(2), the second type, the sacrifice is over, and the tribute is still placed in front of the grave. Different places have different customs, and the concept is different. In such a situation, they believe that if they eat the tribute in front of the grave, it is a great disrespect to the ancestors.
Let's talk about why you can't eat the grave tribute. The customs of these places are due to the fact that the offerings are not brought home to eat. The tribute in front of the tomb was prepared for the ancestors. The ancestors have been buried under the tomb, and the grave is the place where his soul dwells. The things of the ancestors cannot be moved by the descendants, and they are regarded as a great disrespect to the ancestors. The ancestors will be angry, and once the ancestors are angry, they will no longer protect their children and grandchildren. At the same time, there is a saying that it is robbed of food with evil spirits. People even grab the food of ghosts, indicating that this person's nature is too inferior. Sometimes there are supernatural events, and it is said that they are haunted by ghosts.
Actually, from a rational judgment. In ancient times, the tribute in front of the tomb was unpackaged, and the floor was covered with paper money, the tribute was placed, and then the wine was sprinkled around the grave. Next, burn paper money to worship, and the sacrifice process is over. Since the tribute has no outer packaging, under the smoke and fire of the paper money, the fly ash of the paper money and the dust in the air will fall on the tribute, which is obviously unhygienic! If you eat it, you may eat a bad stomach.
In the past, in the year of famine, people who were too hungry to find tribute to eat would also go to the grave to find offerings to eat. After all, the tribute has been placed for a long time, especially in the summer, it will deteriorate in an hour or two, and it is normal to eat a bad stomach.
In fact, this saying is that people should not have no bottom line, they should leave some dignity for themselves, the food of the ghost must be robbed, and morality is not offline! Character is truly hopeless.
Second, no longer sit on the human flesh stool when you are tired.
A human flesh stool, that is, a stool that takes someone else's body. Ancient princes and nobles traveled, in order to show their noble status, whether riding a horse or riding a car, they had to go down to act as steps, step on the body of the next person, get on the horse or get on the car. This is the human flesh stool. The saying goes: "Even if a person is tired, do not use other people's bodies as a stool to sit on." ”
In film and television dramas, we often see that when the emperor travels and gets tired, the eunuch will kneel on the ground and make a stool for the emperor. The emperor was originally the Supreme Nine-Five, and could not sit on the ground. Noble no. In fact, this kind of behavior seems to highlight the loftiness of identity status. In fact, the other side is not to treat people as people. Between people, there is no high or low, you are high, high, powerful, respected by others, but human rights are the same. You cannot trample on the dignity of others to show the exaltation of your own status.
Of course, in today's society, the ubiquity of sprinkling dog food is commonplace, and it is common to sit on the lap of one's own man or lover to rest. This is a manifestation of show love. When outsiders saw it, they laughed and did not sit on any judgment. In fact, this kind of situation should still be noted, even if you love me again, Lang love concubines, such as glue like paint, but also pay attention to the occasion. In their own home, two people are as good as one person, and they can do whatever they want. On the outside, you still have to pay attention to the feelings of others.
The saying "no longer hungry do not eat the pre-grave offering, and no longer sit on the human flesh stool when tired", which seems to teach people not to eat the tribute in front of the grave, and not to use other people's bodies as stools. In fact, it is telling the truth of being a person, do not have a lower limit for being a person, the dignity of others does not allow you to trample on it at will, and stepping on others is not a symbol of your status, but a manifestation of your ignorance.