The balcony is a very important place in our daily life, in addition to daily functions such as lighting and ventilation, it is also a place for families to rest and enhance their feelings, and placing some things on the balcony is also the habit of many families. But what can be placed on the balcony, what can not be placed, the ancients in this regard is undoubtedly the most exquisite, in the eyes of the ancients, the placement of the balcony will have a subtle impact on people's fortunes. This is not uncommon in many folk sayings, such as this sentence "the balcony is not swinging, the house is not troubled", although the materialistic dialectical scientific concept has been popularized, but the connotation of these sayings is still enjoyable.
In the eyes of the ancients, the first thing that can not be placed on the balcony is debris, which is actually very easy to understand, the balcony as the most empty place in the home, many idle things are easy to stack here, such as pots and barrels, cartons, mops and other cleaning tools. Whatever you put on the balcony, you save a lot of trouble. But in the eyes of the ancients, this will bring a lot of hidden dangers to the home, the balcony as the first place to meet the outside world, affecting a person's luck, if you pile up all kinds of debris on this most important passage, it will hinder the circulation of qi, resulting in the accumulation of qi and turbidity.
"Qi" plays a pivotal role in traditional culture, and Taoists believe that "the birth of a person, the gathering of qi", if the body's qi can not circulate normally, there will be problems. And folk also have such concepts as "luck", "luck", "nobility", "obscurity" and other concepts that are well known to women and children, and these mysterious and mysterious "qi" cannot circulate normally, and people will have disasters. Of course, we have long known that these so-called "qi" cannot be superstitious. But in today's view, the balcony piled up debris, not only not beautiful, but also easy to hide dirt and dirt breed bacteria mosquitoes cockroaches, whether it is hygienic or beautiful are easy to affect people's health and mood, most importantly, too much debris is also easy to cause fire and endanger life safety.
Secondly, the ancients believed that what could not be placed on the balcony was the tablet, and there were many customs that would be sacrificed at special times such as the New Year's Festival, even today these customs are still very common, and it is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation to pursue the distance cautiously, but there have always been many rules for etiquette. Nowadays, some people directly place the tablet on the balcony for a long time, which is often a taboo for the ancients. In fact, if you think about it, even the smallest gods and immortals have temples, and even the Buddha statues carved in the grottoes must have a place to shelter from the wind and rain, and expose the tablets naked on the balcony, which is a great disrespectful act in the eyes of the ancients. Today, when civilization is developed, this is somewhat offensive. Just get up early in the morning, the warm sunlight sprinkles into the house, you push open the window but see the opposite balcony is burning incense and kneeling, the strange mood is self-evident.
Finally can not be placed on the balcony of things, that is, the kitchen stove, now the house price is high, many people in order to save living space, the kitchen is arranged on the balcony, the ancients think that this is a big taboo, generally speaking, the balcony is south-facing, the ancients are most taboo to burn fire in the three directions of the east, west, and south, it is best to arrange the kitchen to the north, the ancients thought that this can bring good fortune. In the past, when people moved, they all had the custom of moving the stove first, and it is conceivable that people attach importance to the kitchen. In ancient times, there was also an important custom, that is, the belief of the stove king, if you want the family to prosper, the family is harmonious, and the body is healthy, it is obviously unreasonable to invite the stove king to the balcony to live permanently. Tracing back to the source, this is related to the geographical conditions at that time, the Central Plains often blow north wind, chimney facing north is conducive to the burning of the stove fire, after years of circulation, it has evolved into this taboo.
In modern life, looking back at the experience left to us by the ancients, there is naturally a certain truth under the conditions of existence at that time, but in today's rapid development of scientific society, we should not ignore its historical limitations instead of black and white. Balcony as an important part of our living place, is not only the face of their own face is also the embodiment of quality, neat and beautiful balcony not only living comfortable and safe but also leave a good impression on the neighbors, a good living environment is beneficial to everyone.