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"In this life, except for life and death, everything else is a small matter."
It is estimated that many people should have heard this sentence, and it is true, birth and death in our lives are the two most important things, when we are born, we are all in order to live well and live as long as possible.
Because it is June, especially Children's Day, it has only recently passed. Before listening to the old people in the village chatting and talking about this phrase, "The blessed are born in June, and the unblessed die in June."
It also means very simple, that is, if it is a person born in June, it is a blessed and blessed person, but a person who dies in June is an unblessed person. Why is that? Is there anything special about June? Let's take a brief look at it together.
What does "the blessed be born in June" mean?
It should be noted that the "June" here does not refer to the sixth month of the solar calendar, but refers to the June of the lunar calendar, in fact, in the past, the folk reference to the month was basically the lunar calendar.
And in the mainland since ancient times birthday is a lunar birthday Oh, like the past often said that a person's birthday eight characters, also refers to the date of the lunar calendar, and it is also closely related to the ancient dry branch calendar.
The so-called "birthday eight characters" refers to the four pillars of the dry branch in the dry branch calendar, including the year, month, day and hour, and the two characters of each column add up to eight characters, so it is called. In the past, it was also popular among the people to use a person's birthday to calculate the good or bad fate of his destiny.
Like in the past, for those fortune-tellers, ranking eight characters is a basic skill, as long as you report the date, month and time of birth, they can say your eight characters at once, but now most people do not know.
Or is it about why the ancients thought that people born in June were "blessed"? There are many reasons for this. The first is because June is the sixth month of the year, and six is considered a very auspicious number in mainland folklore, such as "six six dashun".
Therefore, the ancients believed that this month was very auspicious, and naturally children born in this month were more likely to grow up healthily. Compared to children born in other seasons, especially winter, the survival rate in June is much higher.
The second is that it has a lot to do with the environment at that time. You know, in June, it's the hottest time of the year. Therefore, children born during this period, even if they are poor in the family, do not have to worry that the children will freeze without clothes.
Even if you don't wear clothes, it won't have a big impact on the child. After all, in the past, clothes were not available in every household. Listening to the old people, I have said that in the past, some poor people had no clothes to wear, and a family of several people wore a set of clothes together, and those who did not have clothes to wear were directly staying at home and not going out. So, this is a big advantage of being born in June, not worrying about the child being frozen without clothes.
The third is that the child does not have to worry about running out of food to eat. Why do you say that? Because June is the summer crop ripening and harvesting season, both in the south and in the north.
In the south, for example, rice is ripe in June, while wheat is harvested in the north. It can be said that June is the most abundant period of the year, so there is no worry about children having no food to eat.
What's more, there is another advantage, that is, in June, when the summer crop harvest has ended, everyone is also relatively free. At this time, if a child is born in the family, everyone can also help.
Children are born with food to eat, and they don't have to worry about having no clothes to wear, isn't this a very good person? Hence the saying that "the blessed are born in June".
"The unblessed died in June", and why?
So why is it said that the old man died in June, but he was unblessed? This is actually easier to understand. Like in our daily life, we often boast that others are blessed people. And this blessing does not refer to the fact that people will be rich and noble, or dragons and phoenixes among adults, but refers to the good luck of enjoying happiness in life.
And the reason why old people who die in the month are unblessed, it is because they have no good luck to enjoy the newly harvested grain. In the past, food was relatively scarce, and food was often insufficient throughout the year, and the situation was even more serious when encountering natural disasters, often eating the last meal but not the next.
But in June, food is generally plentiful. Even if there is a disaster, there will be more or less harvest of food. But if at this time the grain had just returned from harvest, and they had not had time to taste the joy of the harvest and died, they would naturally feel that this was a very regrettable thing, so they were considered to be people without such blessings.
What's more, June is the hottest time of the year, and funerals are held after death, which requires parking at home for a few days. It is easy to worry about parking the body at home on a hot day, which will cause inconvenience to the family and the people who help, and naturally there will be complaints.
In fact, in some places, there is another saying, that is, "will be born in June, will die in the month of La", the same reason, because the cold weather in the month of La, which is conducive to the storage of remains. What's more, everyone in La Yue is not very busy, and they will come to help.
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