In the folk, the ancestors have great attention to their own houses. Whether it is the choice of homestead, or the direction of doors and windows in the home, the location of furniture, and even the way people live in the house, there are many sayings and rules. Folk believe that the house is an important place for a person or even a family to prosper, and choosing a good house is equivalent to invisibly adding a handful of oil to their future and helping a force.
This kind of folk customs and exquisiteness is the most important part of our traditional culture, and it is also the precious legacy left to us by our ancestors in our Chinese civilization. It is precisely because the folk customs of the people are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so the ancestors have summed up a lot of relevant sayings, including "the family house is not pure, the blessing is light and the wealth is not happy". So, what exactly does this sentence mean? What does "three impurities" refer to?
In fact, the meaning of the old ancestor's sentence "the family house is not clean, the blessing is light and the wealth is not happy", which means that even if the home is dirty, there are 3 places that must not be dirty. So which 3 positions are there?
One is wealth!
Whether it was in the past or now, our pursuit of wealth is eternal. Because wealth is the most basic need for everyone to live, so since ancient times, wanting to be rich and noble and pursuing "wealth" is one of the most simple wishes of the ancestors.
In this cultural background, the ancestors created the "wealth position", that is, there will be a position in the family house, which will control the wealth in the family. Moreover, the financial position is divided into "light" and "dark", no matter what it is, it needs to be clean and tidy there, and it must not be disorganized.
Of course, such a folk saying is more superstitious for us. But from it, it can be revealed that the ancestors' desire for wealth and the pursuit of a better life!
The second is the place where food is stored.
As the saying goes, "the people take food as the sky", and the importance of food, at any time, is the first. For food hygiene, it has also been very important since ancient times.
The ancients stored food in kitchens, rice tanks, etc., and now people put food in the refrigerator. But no matter where it is placed, we must ensure that these places where food is stored are clean and hygienic.
In addition, the ancestors also believed that the place where food was stored must not be empty, and once it became empty, it meant that "wealth" was empty. This is because in ancient times, grain was hard currency, and grain represented "wealth". Another point is that because most people in ancient times relied on farming to live and rely on the sky to eat, only by storing more grain could they cope with unknown natural disasters and man-made disasters.
Third, it is a shrine.
Ancient people, due to the lack of knowledge of nature, so those unknown things, will be deified, which has the existence of gods. In the final analysis, God is only a kind of sustenance for people to pursue a better life, and when people pursue longevity, they have a "life star"; people pursue "wealth" and they have the god of wealth, and so on.
Until now, many families have placed shrines in their homes to worship the gods.
As the folk saying goes, "There is a god three feet up", so even if many people are busy, they will not forget to clean the sanitation of the shrine and keep the shrine clean and tidy at all times. Such behavior is actually an external manifestation of people praying for a better life!
Although it is said that "the family house is not pure, and the wealth is not happy", in the current view, it is full of subjective assumptions. However, such folk customs are exquisite and are rooted in the soil of our traditional culture. It has had a very important impact on us, especially on the lives of our ancestors. This effect, until now, still exists!