Text/Panda Literature and History
The Chinese nation has a 5,000-year history of civilization, many people and things have happened in history, and because we are a nation that is good at recording history, people in history and people after the fact can know by reading history, and the literati have summed up many idioms by refining history books, and then the literati have compiled historical stories into operas and popularized them to the working people.
The ancient working people who understood ancient history were rarely able to receive formal education except for opera, which is storytelling, but in the practice of thousands of years of work and life, they also summed up the "idiom" that belonged to the working people - colloquialisms.
For example, does the phrase "only tired cattle, no ploughed fields" really represent the relationship between men and women?
"Only tired cattle, no ploughed fields" is a very common phrase
Traditional Chinese culture emphasizes small words and great righteousness, for example, idioms are the representatives of small words and great righteousness, to be precise, it is the ancient Chinese literati who emphasize small words and great righteousness, concise and meaningful, the fewer the words, the higher the compulsion. But the working people in ancient times did not understand what it meant to speak in small words, and they were not even literate, but not literate did not mean that there was no culture.
The phrase "there are only tired cattle, no ploughed fields" is a description of reality.
The meaning is not so many twists and turns, that is, when ploughing the field, every year the field is ploughed, the field is still the field, but the cow is not necessarily last year's cattle. Because the life of cattle is limited, excessive use of cultivated cattle will be exhausting, but the life of the field is long-lasting.
In ancient times, because the productive forces were not developed enough and there was no modern machinery and equipment, the best way to plough the land was to cultivate cattle, and those who had planted the field should understand that the more deeply the field was, the better and stronger the grain would grow.
Therefore, cultivating cattle is the main reason why a family fills its stomach in addition to natural disasters. But there are many young people who do not cherish the power of cattle, let them overwork, hope to cultivate more fields, deep ploughing, more grain, next year's grain is a little more productive, but next year's cattle may also be tired.
There is a point, Zhuangzi's meaning of "I am born with an end, but only without an end". In order to educate future generations, the ancients cultivated the fields and produced grain should be thin and long-flowing, and they could not exhaust the good helpers to cultivate cattle in one year.
How, then, did such a saying of the working people exhorting young people to cherish the cattle become a word representing the relationship between men and women?
Modern people have to over-interpret
A good word is used too badly by modern people, such as "Miss", which is the abbreviation of the idiom "Miss Qianjin", describing the daughter of a rich family, not only young and beautiful, but also learned. Before modern times, it was the highest title for everyone's boudoir, and modern people used words indiscriminately, until "miss" became a reference to a special motorcycle industry, and now whoever dares to call a woman "miss" will definitely be beaten.
And the proverb "Only tired cattle, no ploughed fields" is also used by modern people for the same reason as the word "miss", from praise to depreciation.
Modern people say that the cow in "only tired cattle, no ploughed fields" means men, the fields mean women, and then do too many indescribable things, the most important thing is that most people still fully believe.
But this sentence is also wrong to express the relationship between men and women, more women are hurt than men, men are just tired, and women may lose their fertility, and thus regret for life, and even lose their lives.
Therefore, the good things of the ancients, wrong understanding or misuse, not only sorry for the ancestors, but also will mislead people's children, if you really believe that "only tired cattle, no ploughed fields" as a description of the relationship between men and women, then how many women have to regret it for life?