As a kind of wisdom circulated by the folk, the colloquialism is the summary of the previous experience of the ancients, which has influenced people's concept of life for generations, and has become a key to examining folk customs and customs at present, and is the "encyclopedia" in the lives of local people. But a proverb, which has evolved over time, may have the opposite meaning.
For example, the ancients often said that "thirty like a wolf, forty like a tiger" was originally used to describe the characteristics of people at different stages, but now it has become a joke of people, used to describe women. And what kind of deep meaning does such a sentence have from ancient times to the present? This requires us to understand it carefully.
Thirty is like a wolf, untamed
In fact, this simple saying, the ancients want to point out is like a wolf-like character, the earliest in the ordinary people, is used to warn people at different stages of thirty or forty years old how to do, with such a method to better grasp life.
"Thirty is like a wolf", when a person is thirty years old, he has reached the age of starting a family. At this time, the youth and ignorance of youth have faded, and at this stage it is more important to work hard for the family and career. At this time, having knowledge, energy, and not being shy, is the best time to change your destiny upwards, so you must learn to be as ambitious as a "wolf", dare to fight, do not yield in adversity, and persistently pursue survival.
The most important character of the "wolf" in his life is "good at war", and in such a good year as thirty years old, he should find a stage where he can show his ambitions and show his fists in front of the world. Instead of doing nothing, in the stage of life should strive to build a tall building, nothing will be achieved, and in the end, you can only watch others rise up and live a life of fine clothes and food, while you can only be hungry and cold, hiding between the houses.
Forty is like a tiger, not angry with himself
"Forty like a tiger", stepping into the threshold of forty years old, at this time life has passed the halfway point, the family business should also tend to be stable, people should go through thirty years old like "wolf" untamed, and slowly show the majesty and maturity like "tiger". The tiger can be the master among all the beasts, and the forty-year-old should also be able to be the master in the family and career.
The tiger is the king of the forest, not angry, once a problem can be suppressed in time, walking between the steps is not impatient but full of ethos. Forty-year-olds guard their small home, can deal with the changes in life without alarm, seemingly taciturn but old and heavy, and can get the respect of people in the family and society.
Zuo Zongtang, known as the "first tough guy in the late Qing Dynasty", pushed his career to the peak at the age of forty with his tiger-like momentum. When Zuo Zongtang was young, he was a down-and-out student, his family was poor, and he had no choice but to fall off the list three times when he entered Beijing to catch the exam. However, he is not willing to go to the trough, but changes his pessimistic attitude towards life, puts his pattern bigger, and responds to setbacks without being alarmed. Later, Zuo Zongtang slowly became a high-ranking official from a cloth cloth and led troops to go out on a campaign, saving the Qing Dynasty a lot of lost land.
To this day, mature women
With the passage of the times, such a famous saying with a sobering effect has changed its taste, and today it has been transformed into a sentence describing a mature woman, which is quite playful, but in fact, for women, it is not so simple.
The world says that the best age for a woman is the age of two or eight, but when a woman spends her youthful and beautiful twenties, from the original innocence and liveliness to the world, to the age of thirty will be more mature and strong, without the weakness and delicacy of the year, in the face of such a change, the men in the family can not accept it for a while, and use such a fierce animal as "like a wolf" to describe women.
Secondly, "motherhood is just", women in their thirties and forties, generally have a family and children. Whether for the purpose of protection or the strict principles of education, mothers must become brave and strong, and only by no longer being a promise can they protect their families and let their children become good talents as expected.
brief summary
Such a sentence "thirty like a wolf, forty like a tiger" invisibly changed the original meaning, and produced a prejudice against women, and the transformation of this needs us to think deeply. For the shallow-minded man, what he hears will determine why, while for the truly wise man, he will be able to study the deepest essence through phenomena and thus gain his own insights.
The sayings handed down by the ancients are closely related to our lives and have profound meanings. For such cultural folklore, we should better respect and learn from them, and appreciate their profound meaning, rather than going with the flow and forgetting their admonitions.