Of course I believed.
No matter how the outside world comments on the koi king Yang Chaoyue, it has to be admitted that some people are born with better luck than others.
Koi Yang transcends
Someone is a golden hand who can choose the right path in every major life choice. Someone is a stinky hand, Weibo forwarding lottery will never win, the lottery will always be passed by, even if there are two choices left, one is right and one is wrong, he can always choose the wrong one.
If it happens that you have a person around you who is always blessed, it can really force people into superstitious youth in minutes. Because you can't explain, you can't explain why you did 99% of the effort and someone else just happened to try the right 1% and succeeded.
In 2008, American psychologist Jenifer Whitson & Adam Galinsky explained that when people don't know why something happens and therefore can't control it, people prefer to invent a causal explanation for these things and believe it. This gives you a sense of control over your own life, which eliminates the tension and anxiety that comes with the unknown or uncertainty.
The vast majority of superstitions are born from this, and the small superstition of casually forwarding koi, a low-cost, high-efficiency large-scale network burning incense and worshiping Buddha, has alleviated the anxiety of Chinese youth now. This is what makes this digital koi swim back into the public eye.
Although this behavior seems more like a fluke psychology of unearned gain, anyone with normal logical thinking ability understands that forwarding lottery and lottery tickets is a fluke mentality begging for pie in the sky, and forwarding koi is impossible to make people succeed for a second.
More often, people just want to "get happy". They don't want to be rich and wealthy, as long as their small life is stable and stable. But whether it is superstition to alleviate anxiety, or superstition for the sake of getting happy, or even superstitious like expecting pie to fall from the sky, in fact, everyone has only a very simple appeal in their hearts, that is, they want to make themselves better.
Forwarding is sticking with joy
In order to make yourself good, in addition to your own efforts, you also need some external help, and sometimes this external help is superstition.
Australians are no exception. It's just that this "koi" in their lives is a stone.
This "koi stone" is the famous Opal (opal stone). Opal stones were discovered thousands of years ago, but they are so rare that only royalty can wear them. However, since the discovery of abundant opalites in South Australia in the 1950s, such gemstones have spread throughout Australia and become Australia's "national stone". In addition to being attracted by the dazzling colors of opal stone glass, Australians are deeply convinced that opal stone can bring them good luck.
Opal Stones
Until Australians believed opal stones would bring good luck, such stones were intermittently criticized.
In the period when the Black Death was prevalent, it was believed that the owner of opal stone was the closest to death, and the color of opal stone was the most brilliant, and when his owner died, opal stone would lose its luster, which seemed to pull the Black Death and opal stone into some positive connection.
Since then, the ominousness of opal has continued to ferment as a superstition, and in 1829, in a novel by Sir Walter Scott, opal was described as "a demonic stone that can change the color of human emotions", and the public was influenced by this novel to resist the purchase of opal stone, even causing the price of opal stone as a whole to fall by half.
Opal Stones were once a symbol of bad luck
Early Australians also believed in legends about the evil of opal stones until one man broke the deadlock. This man, Harry Brukarz, was an unbeliever who not only collected "ominous opal stones", but also opened a jewelry store specializing in opal stones in Martin Square, Sydney.
Then in just ten years of opening the store, he won the lottery 9 times, winning a total of 120,000 Australian dollars. Every time he wins the lottery, he will buy gifts for his clerks and give everyone a touch of his joy.
Newspaper in Newcastle, 1946
But he never felt that these good fortunes came from the sky, but that these "ominous opal stones" he had collected gave him good luck.
Since then, the ominous superstition of opal stone has not been broken, but the superstition that opal stone can bring good luck has quietly become popular in Australia.
Today, Australians' small superstitions about opal stone have not only believed that opal stone can bring good luck, but also some people believe that opal stone has a certain energy, which can help shy people become cheerful and confident, and can also increase the possibility of life. These are the places where the opal stone energy that sounds like an exciting thing officially appeals to Australians.
From bad luck to good luck counterattack Opal
Some people may think that countries with more developed economies and better living standards will have relatively low levels of superstition. Of course, there is some truth to this, but since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Australia has not experienced any major winds and waves, and has developed smoothly all the way to the present. Even Australia has a nickname of "Lucky Country". But this does not mean that Australians are not superstitious.
In addition to the Australian superstition of various stones, they also believe that burning sage can remove the "unclean" energy in the home, believe that cross finger "cross fingers" can bring good luck and so on.
Sage & Cross Finger
Sometimes Australians do silly-looking cute things to get carried away, like giving their children a name [they think] is lucky.
In 1999, there was a truck driver named Bill Morgan, who accidentally had a car accident, a cardiac arrest for 14 minutes and then miraculously came back to life, and then bought two lottery tickets, the first won a car for $25,099 and the second won $250,000 in cash. After Bill Morgan's affair was reported in the media, Australian parents rushed to name their children Bill.
Lucky Bill for the rest of his life
It is like Wang Sicong was born in a very wealthy family is very lucky, Chinese parents hope that their children will be rich in the future, they all name their children Wang Sicong to dip the joy.
Imagine Bill and Wang Sicong looking at each other in the streets, no one became rich overnight, and no one came back from the dead. But none of this matters, the cruelty of reality does not erase people's desire for beauty.
Wang Sicongsheng swallows hot dogs
Some people are superstitious about picture koi, some people are superstitious about stones, some people are superstitious about colors, some people are superstitious about names, you can never stop the superstitious trend of change, superstition for many people is always mysterious.
As long as people have unanswerable questions, unexplained phenomena, superstition will always exist. As long as people want to make themselves better and cannot see into the future, there will certainly be people who will continue to be superstitious.
There is no right or wrong, and there is no high or low.
Sometimes making a scene in the wave of superstition is also a small pleasure of life.