In ancient times, people realized the influence of the environment on us, and the ancestors would live by the water and live by the mountains, all of which were to be able to get close to the means of production and facilitate life, and also to be able to avoid wind and rain and wild animals.
With the development of the times, people gradually formed villages and towns, and people's way of living also changed from cave dwelling to building houses. But no matter what kind of way of living, it can't change people's desire to pursue auspiciousness and pray for a better life.
There is such a folk saying, which is that the ancestors paid attention to the living environment, and this sentence is "it is better to live in a house with missing corners than to live in a broken brain atrium." So what does this sentence mean?
In ancient times, the ancestors believed that the "flat and stable" house was the best. The so-called "four levels and eight stability" is simply four squares. Under the influence of traditional culture, when the ancestors built houses, they were always accustomed to "like heaven and earth". The core of the so-called "like heaven and earth" is the harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
The ancients believed that "the heavens are round places", and ancient philosophy paid attention to "human law and earth, earth law and heaven", so the house we live in must be in harmony with "earth", that is, square. The old ancestor believed that only in this way could the family home be stable and complete.
The so-called "cornerless house" refers to the original boxy house, which lacks a corner and becomes an irregular polygon. In folk cognition, if the house lacks different corners, it will have different meanings. For example, the lack of corners in the east will indicate that the family is uneasy and easy to clash with people; the lack of corners in the south may be detrimental to money and so on.
However, even so, the old ancestor also had the saying that "it is better to live in a house without horns than live in a broken brain". It can be seen that compared with the lack of corner houses, the broken brain is more unpleasant. Or "broken brains" are more dangerous.
So, what is a broken brain?
The so-called "broken brain", to use the most popular words to explain, is a house that is not good for the brain. There is also an explanation that the 'broken brain' room will have an impact on people's rest.
In the folk, people believe that the bed head of the bedroom cannot face the toilet, and the bed cannot be placed under the beam, because such a house will affect the rest of the owner of the house, resulting in some disharmonious things in the house.
However, whether it is a "cornerless house" or a "broken brain", it is only a subjective idea of the folk ancestors, and there is no scientific theoretical basis! But even so, such a statement still has a large mass base in the people.
In fact, the old ancestor's saying that "it is better to live in a house with missing corners than to live in a broken brain" is only a folk custom that has been influenced by the traditional philosophical view, believing that a good living environment for the folk must have the effect of "hiding the wind and gathering qi". The so-called Tibetan wind gathering gas, according to today's words, is nothing more than "north and south transparent" and "good lighting".
In ancient times, the ancients on the living environment of the important means of creation, is "prefer to live in the lack of corner houses, do not live in the brain atrium" and other statements, at the beginning, people will use the observation of landforms, water shape to choose the place of residence, or to build a house. Later, under the influence of traditional culture, people combined traditional cultural contents such as yin and yang five elements, heaven and dry earth branch with house construction.
Therefore, in the future, the construction of houses is not only for a good living environment, but also contains profound cultural philosophy!