China has been around for five thousand years, and its long history has naturally given birth to many idioms that are familiar and handy. Most of these idioms and sayings are combined, and the wisdom and experience of the vast number of working people of the Chinese nation are shared.
For example, "the sun rises in the east and rains in the west" is a common saying that controls the weather experience. "Water falls on the stone, and the people's hearts are seen over time" is a kind of saying for human feelings. "I'd rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail" is a common saying about attitude towards life.
As the saying goes, it was born in the folk and applied to the folk. In ancient times those working people were illiterate
Next, catchy and easy-to-understand colloquialisms became their way of survival, and they were passed down from generation to generation and continue to this day.
So, what is the saying "the old man is a dragon, to whom is poor"? Let's start with the formation of the colloquialism.
Colloquialisms are formed
People in ancient times were illiterate. The ancients did not have the opportunity to read like we moderns, and they usually taught their descendants in colloquialisms that were passed down by word of mouth and vivid and vivid post-breaks, distilling their life's experience into easy-to-understand, catchy colloquialisms.
"Break the sand pot and ask the end", this is a mantra that people often hang on their lips. Sand pot is a pot made of mud, mostly used by people to boil Chinese medicine or winter soup utensils, this kind of pot is easy to break if you are not careful, and once broken, it will crack to the end.
"Breaking the sand pot to ask the end" should actually be "breaking the sand pot to ask the end", but it was replaced by the wise ancients with the homophone "ask", although the meaning has changed greatly, but it is quite funny.
For example, "Don't talk about things randomly, don't break into things", this is a kind of wisdom of life. The "White Ding" that Liu Yuxi despised in the "Buried Room Ming", that is, the vast number of working people. But he did not know that the "white dings" he did not like were also of great wisdom.
There are many such colloquials, and many of them are both interesting and stylish. But be sure to pay attention to saying the appropriate words on the corresponding occasions, and never use colloquialisms to cause embarrassment for jokes. Rigidly applying the colloquialisms into the discourse not only makes the discourse more embarrassing, but also uncomfortable.
"The old man is a dragon"
So how to explain the first half of the sentence "The old man is a dragon, to whom is poor"? The old saying cloud, "There is a dragon, it gives birth to nine sons, different also", the so-called dragon gives birth to nine sons, each personality is naturally not the same.
"The old man is a dragon", the dragon is the embodiment of Xiangrui, and it also has the meaning of praise. From ancient times to the present, the mainland has always had the virtue of respecting the old and loving the young, and comparing the dragon to the old man is intended to bless its blessings such as the East Sea and the meaning of shoubi golden dragon.
So why did the previous article mention the nine sons of the dragon? Nature refers to the fact that the old man has many sons under his knees. In ancient times, "nine" did not mean only nine words, but many. And the dragon can soar through the clouds and drive the fog, and the ability to spit water for irrigation also refers to the older generation using their arms to bend to block the wind and thunderstorm for their children.
This should be a praiseworthy word, just if you look at the previous sentence, you will naturally have a kind of admiration and respect for the old man. But why just mention the word "old"?
I would like to have the following reasons
First, the older generation's thinking is solidified and single
The older generation is very stubborn, as mentioned earlier, the saying is spread by thousands of "parents" by word and deed, so what about the "children" who accept all this? They must think that their older generation is right and are less willing to listen to others.
Their ideas came from the previous generation, because the education at that time was to listen to their parents at home, and the parents were superior, and the parents and the people in power were absolutely correct. That is, the so-called solidification education, which is actually not advocated by our modern people.
Second, the elderly have more pain
As mentioned in the first point, the old people with solidified thoughts will have some paranoia, and they will love their children, but which one should they love?
Some people think that "growth is the first", they will love the boss more and ignore the younger child. Others think that if young children are more liked, they will forget the love that the boss needs.
"The old man is a dragon," I think, probably has some sarcastic tone in it, not just as good as I've listed.
"To whomever is poor"
So how to explain this second sentence? When I investigated, I found that there was another version of it, in which the word "toward" was replaced by the word "biased", but the meaning was indeed the same. Then we can understand this "direction" word as the meaning of preference.
Then this sentence is very easy to understand, which one is preferred, which family will be poor. So why are you getting poor?
At this time, we combine the above-mentioned fact that "the old man has a lot of pain", and we will come to a sad fact, which is because of coddling.
Doting will make a person become a person with low eyes and a heart higher than the sky. Coddling is a lesson and difficulty that all parents cannot escape. Without a fledgling eagle baptized with folded wings and a hurricane, it is impossible to spread its wings and soar. Without the difficulties they experience, children hiding in the warm arms of their parents cannot be truly independent.
The eagle soars the sky and fights against the fierce winds and waves, all because of its childhood experience. Every fledgling eagle is mercilessly pushed out of its nest by its mother, struggling desperately in the fall, trying to flap its wings. Or fall into the abyss into a ball of meat that no one knows, or soar.
Too much coddling by parents can make children paranoid, selfish, and not sharing items with others. Such children will gradually be eliminated by society, and eventually become "giant babies" and "nibbling old people" in the arms of their parents, with clothes to reach out and food to open their mouths.
Therefore, when the elderly love their children, they should properly educate their children to be content, not to be too embarrassed by their grandparents, and they must do what they can. Don't become a little emperor or a little princess.
In fact, the so-called "old man is a dragon, to whom the poor" is a kind of easy-to-understand criticism of doting children, which carries the meaning of irony and laughter, criticizing the parents who doted on children from ancient times to the present.
But it also warns fellow citizens not to be like the "old man" in this saying, preferring children to experience more storms. The so-called "how can you see the rainbow without experiencing wind and rain", I think this is the best criticism of coddling.
If he continues to favor his children, he will only enter the society in the future and hit a wall everywhere. After tasting the hardships of life, he will be depressed, and even paranoid that life is aimed at him everywhere, which is very stressful.
Of course, if you are a smart person, just try to restrain yourself from changing your shortcomings. Success is still beckoning you. People's temper is not cultivated overnight, but gradually formed over a long period of time, which is variable.
"The old man is a dragon, to whom the family is poor", a simple and easy-to-understand saying, tells a theme that has remained unchanged for thousands of years - coddling. I hope that after understanding the story behind this saying, you can wake up or stop the loss in time. Treating children correctly is also for their own good.