Chinese culture has a long history, and after thousands of years of cultural accumulation, the land of China has opened up brilliant cultural treasures. In the folk, there is a culture that everyone must be familiar with, that is, the colloquialism, which also occupies a place in traditional culture, and the content is extremely rich, which is a precious material for the study of folklore.
There is a saying in the saying: The tomb has three elephants, and the rich and auspicious. Many people do not know the true meaning of this sentence, there are three elephants in the tomb, what does the three elephants in this refer to? Why is it rich and auspicious? Is there any basis for that?
The three elephants that the ancients said:
First, the ancestral graves are lush with grass and flowers. Chinese from ancient times to the present, we have paid attention to the funeral of the deceased, and "entering the soil for safety" is the wish of Chinese after his death, and in the long run, a unique funeral culture has been formed. In fact, this is closely related to the patriarchal system based on blood.
The ancients attached great importance to the continuation of the bloodline and formed a family with the bloodline as the medium. People often say that death is like a matter of life, and the ancients only went to live elsewhere after death, so what the deceased used when they were alive, there will be corresponding funerary goods after death.
The ancients valued the graves of their ancestors precisely as a manifestation of respect. Every year during the Qingming Festival, future generations will go to the graves of their ancestors to pay homage to their ancestors. People feel that the appearance of the ancestral tomb has a certain relationship with the development of later generations, such as the grave is lush with grass and flowers, which is auspicious in the eyes of the ancients.
Grass and flowers grow on the grave, and the ancients felt that it was the ancestor apparition, which meant that the family was leafy and there would be more heirs. At the same time, flowers and green grass represent good things, and good things will happen.
Second, there are spiritual objects around the tomb. The ancients felt that many animals had aura, such as cranes, turtles, foxes, snakes and even weasels. For example, there are many legends about the weasel in the northern region, and even call it "Wong Tai Sin". Foxes are also foxes, and in mythical stories, dai is a fox, and such stories can be described as household names.
If there is such a "spiritual object" living around the ancestral tomb, the ancients felt that it was an auspicious sign. Ancestors can be accompanied by spiritual beings, and they will not be incarnated as immortals, right? The ancients were very superstitious, so they felt that this was auspicious, and even felt that with such a phenomenon, the descendants of the clan would have a great achievement.
Third, the ancestral grave smokes. People often use this sentence to ridicule those who suddenly have great achievements or great wealth, although it sounds strange, like a pejorative meaning, but the ancients were very willing to "smoke" the ancestral grave.
In ancient times, there were many people who believed in Taoism, and in Taoism, people could cultivate themselves to become immortals, which now sounds unreliable at all. But the ancients were convinced that if the ancestral tomb was smoked, it meant that the ancestor had become an immortal, was it not an auspicious omen?
This saying is just the ancient people's expectation of good things, the ancestral tomb has three elephants is just accidental, if the relationship is imposed, it will fall into superstition, as a descendant, we must inherit the fine traditions of our ancestors, only in this way can we develop ourselves and bring happiness to our families.
What do you think about this saying?