When it comes to common sayings, Presumably everyone will not feel strange, and almost everyone will hear or remember one or two common sayings to a greater or lesser extent. Folklore is a kind of folk learning, it is also an integral part of Chinese culture, the colloquialism is very grounded, it is the working people's life experience, the summary of life experience, is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients, I wonder if you have heard such a saying - "fifty do not pay money, sixty do not pay, seventy do not stay overnight, eighty do not leave food", what does this saying mean?
It is obvious that this easy-to-understand, concise and concise saying is to warn people of different ages, what things can not be done, which things are worth noting, to see if they are reasonable!
First, fifty do not pay money, sixty do not pay
Fifty and sixty years old can be classified as the first half of the common saying, because these two age groups belong to the lower life of the "three lives". According to modern concepts, fifty or sixty years old is a relatively "moderate" age group, saying that it is young, there are those who are younger than this age group, and those who are older than this age group.
This saying is an extension of another sentence, that is, "Fifty and know the destiny, sixty and obedient."
Fifty knowledge of the Mandate of Heaven and sixty ear shun are the memoirs of the sage Confucius himself, however, some people in life do not meet this standard, even when they are fifty years old, they do not know the mandate of heaven, and when they reach the age of sixty, they do not obey.
For these people, the saying goes that fifty do not pay money. At the age of fifty, life has passed the halfway point, began to gradually enter the age of aging, the so-called "no money", in layman's terms, is to guard their own accumulation of half a life, used for the cost of the pension.
At the same time, it also warns others not to deceive others of the hard-earned money used for the elderly, or to use them to invest in themselves and so on.
When people reach the age of sixty, they have already experienced the ups and downs of life, and at this time their hearts are fully mature, and they should have looked at many things and would not easily argue too much with others.
However, this is only an ideal state, and in real life, there are some people, at the age of sixty, not only do not have a smooth ear, but have accumulated a lifetime of hostility, for such people, the so-called "non-verbal" is not to argue with them casually.
Generally speaking, the ancients said that "fifty do not pay money, sixty do not pay" or have a certain truth, but what about the second half of the saying?
Second, seventy do not stay overnight, eighty do not stay
After seventy years old, it is the upper life of the ancients in the "three lives", of course, due to the improvement of modern living standards, people's average life expectancy has also increased, seventy years old and eighty years old in modern times should be regarded as "middle life"
Seventy years of life is rare, and from the age of seventy, it enters the year of ancient rarity.
Birth, old age, illness and death are the laws of natural development, from ancient times to the present no one can avoid, people reach the age of seventy, eighty years old, just like grass and trees into withering, flowers into withering.
The so-called "no stay", "no stay", there are two meanings, one is that they do not easily leave home to stay overnight or stay, that is to say, people should pay special attention to their own diet and living when they are old, not to be strong, to have self-knowledge. One is that others should pay special attention to the life and living of the elderly, and take care of the elderly.
It is worth noting that from the seventy-year-old "no stay", to the eighty-year-old "no meal", is more and more stringent, which also warns people that the older you are, the more you have to take care of your body.
One simple saying after another, like the silent spring rain, is integrated into all aspects of people's lives. Sayings are derived from life, acting on life, have certain guiding significance for people's food, clothing, shelter and transportation, and the vitality of the saying lies in inheritance, of course, inheritance is not blindly inherited, treating different sayings, to take different attitudes, to look at dialectically, take its essence, abandon its dross.
What do you think about that? Comments are welcome.