Growing up in the countryside, I remember when I was a kid, I liked to pick fruits in the mountains to eat, and I tasted countless kinds of fruits, among which the deep purple mulberry was the most memorable.
Some fruits have their own sour and bitter taste, but mulberries have only a simple sweetness, and every time the mulberries are ripe, I always go to the mountains with my cousin to eat. Eating until your hands are full of purple, eating purple and staining your clothes, even if these dyed colors can't be washed off, I still feel very happy and satisfied in my heart.
One day, I planted a small mulberry tree in front of my house, thinking that it would be convenient to eat mulberries in the future. I dug up the soil, planted the mulberry tree, ran to scoop up a spoonful of water, and just as I was about to water it, I saw my grandmother standing angrily in front of the mulberry tree I had just planted. She pointed to the mulberry tree and asked, "Which one planted this?" ”
Grandma's face is bad, but I am very confused, can't this be planted? I asked why, and my grandmother was so angry that she didn't want to reply to my words, so she directly uprooted my mulberry tree and threw it away.
At the time, I felt quite aggrieved, but later I learned that some trees could not be planted in front of the house. There is a saying among the people: "Five trees enter the house, people are poor and defeated", mulberry trees are included in it, do you know which of the other four trees are?
Mulberry, pear trees
Mulberry and pear trees cannot be planted casually because they have bad names.
The homonym of the mulberry tree is "mourning tree", and the homonym of the pear tree is "leaving the tree".
Just like there is a vegetable called "Fa Cai", which was not particularly delicious, just because of its auspicious name (homonym "Fa Cai"), there was a period of popularity in China, and even many people bought it to give gifts, with the meaning of "wishing you wealth".
Chinese are very simple, like good things and hate bad things, like to say good things and don't like to say bad things. For a family, the most tragic event is the funeral and family breakdown.
Planting mulberry trees is like inviting funerals to the family, and planting pear trees is like looking forward to family separation. If his own child does not know how to plant, the angry adult will scold him, if it is an outsider planting in front of his own house, it must be bad intentions, hoping that his own family is not good, and the two will definitely have a vendetta.
Pine, cypress
Confucius said: "The years are cold, and then the pines and cypresses wither away." "Pine here means pine and cypress.
This sentence has the same meaning as "the wind knows the grass, and the tribulation sees the truth", which shows that the ancients appreciated the "high wind and bright festival" of these two trees.
However, these two trees cannot be planted at the door, according to tradition, pine trees are yin, and planting more near the home will lead to "yin and yang decay", so it is not suitable for planting at the doorstep.
This is a thing of the past, and there are many people in modern times who grow pine trees at home, but most of them are very small potted plants. In the past, there were no such dwarf pine trees, and if you wanted to plant them on your doorstep, you could only grow those tall varieties.
However, anyone living in the countryside knows that pine trees lose their leaves so badly that a thick "pine needle carpet" can be dropped on the ground overnight, causing trouble for the cleanliness of the doorway and making it difficult to clean. The ancients did not plant pine trees in front of their homes, probably in large part because they were difficult to clean.
Cypress trees are good trees, according to ancient sayings, the cemetery group has "rays" such as ghosts, cypress trees can suppress them, so many people in ancient times planted cypress trees in cemeteries, and cypress trees were mostly planted in cemeteries.
Over time, people thought that cypress trees were the ones that should be planted in the cemetery, so no one planted them in front of the door. It's like children don't dare to play with the underworld, people always stay away from cypresses.
Shame tree
In ancient times, "Huai" and "official" were the same characters. Most of the famous families and official families in ancient times liked to plant locust trees in their homes because it had the auspicious meaning of promoting officials and making a fortune. Ancient bachelors also called the imperial examination "Huaiqiu", "Huaiqiu" means "the autumn of becoming a high official", which shows that the ancient scholar class felt that the locust tree was an auspicious tree.
However, in the folk, locust trees are bad trees. Because the character "Huai" is a "wood" character plus a "ghost" character. In their opinion, the locust tree is the ghost of the tree, this kind of tree is definitely not good at the doorstep, and the ancient simple working people, of course, all stayed away from the locust tree.
As the saying goes, many of these five trees that cannot be planted near homes are planted in the yard, because the customs are different in different places, and the same thing, some places find it auspicious, and some places find it "unlucky". Different classes in ancient times had different views on the same thing.
This can only show that Chinese culture is too broad and profound, although the culture is the same, but there are different customs in different places, which is the same and the little different. Different and unique customs in various places, why not a bright local "postcard", if every local customs, food, culture, customs in China are exactly the same, then it will be too monotonous! And it is precisely these differences that constitute the same and colorful Chinese culture.
Working people are simple and good, so they all like things that sound good to say, and they don't like things that don't sound good. Although these sayings are a bit outdated, what is the harm of passing them on? These simple sayings are also part of Chinese culture, and inheriting and protecting them is conducive to making Chinese culture shine on the entire world stage. Of course, the ancient buildings in Jiangnan are not as practical as modern new buildings, but the reason why cities like Suzhou can become tourist attractions and attract attention in the world is because they have preserved traditional culture relatively completely, which is the most eye-catching treasure in China!