Introduction: What does the rural proverb "men to forty must pay attention, more away from less than half of the people" what does it mean? What do half-people mean?
There are different sayings about the encounters of different ages in life, there is an old saying that "thirty and standing, forty and not confused, fifty and knowing the destiny, sixty and obedient, seventy and from the heart..." This sentence tells us the human nature that we must understand at different stages of life. To put it simply, when a person reaches the age of thirty and reaches the age of starting a family, he must learn to manage the household, but what is the state of a person when he reaches the age of forty? Today we are based on another proverb that "men must pay attention to forty, and lean more away from less than half-people."
Rural proverb "Men to forty must pay attention, more away from less rely on half of the people", this sentence can not fully understand its meaning at a cursory glance, mainly still do not understand the meaning of "half of the people" refers to? So let's start with the "half-man".
"Half-Man" and "Living Wife"
Half-man we can also guess from the literal meaning of this person is incomplete, and half-man is mainly the two husband and wife who form a family, we say that both husband and wife are the indispensable half of the word "person", only the husband and wife rely on each other to form a complete "person" word, and the half person refers to the side of the person. In fact, the half-man is still specially recorded in the Chinese dictionary, and the interpretation of the half-man is "the woman whose husband has died", from here we can know that the half-man actually refers to the widow, and the widow is the woman whose husband has died. According to the old saying, the husband is the pillar of the family, the husband is the heaven of the family, and now the husband is dead, and the sky in the family has collapsed. However, there is also a saying that "women can hold up half of the sky" this is also a source of the half of the people referring to women.
And we often say "living wife" refers to the woman who divorced her husband, the husband is still alive, but the husband and wife have divorced.
Here the "half-man" and the "living wife" should be clearly distinguished. Now that we know that "half-man" means widow, the saying is easy to understand.
As the saying goes, "Men must pay attention to their minds when they reach forty, and they must be more distant and less dependent on half-people", this sentence warns men in their forties to pay more attention and stay away from widows.
We know that when a person reaches the age of forty, he has reached the age of no confusion, that is, he has been able to distinguish between right and wrong in the world, of course, when a person reaches the age of forty, a man has achieved a little success, and may still be confused in the face of a life of red and green, in the face of various temptations. For example, as mentioned later, when a man reaches the age of forty, he faces the widow in the village, and what should a man do in the face of the widow? As the saying goes, "widows in front of the door is not much", because widows do not have a husband, if the widow's door suddenly has more men, then the gossip in the village has come, there was nothing to do, after people pounced on the wind and added oil and vinegar, really jumped into the Yellow River can not be washed, so tell us men, to try to stay away from widows, to be responsible for the family.