Since I was a child, I always listened to my parents or grandparents, and when educating us, a few common sayings popped up from time to time, such as, men shake the poor and women shake the cheap, or women in college holding gold bricks, etc., these are more common to hear in life and are quite educational, or really very reasonable, after all, our ancestors have practiced through their own lives. So, is there any of these sayings about the moment of birth?
There is a sentence here: Women are afraid of being born at noon, and men are afraid of midnight. Why did the ancients leave such a saying?
Image: A still from a child who has just come into the world
I. Superstitious psychology
1. Women are afraid of being born at noon
The most important thing in this sentence is time, as we all know, noon and midnight are a timekeeping method in ancient times, noon is 12 o'clock at noon, and midnight is 12 o'clock in the middle of the night.
In ancient times, there was not enough scientific reason to explain many things, people preferred to believe in some ghost legends, and more importantly, people in ancient times also believed in the saying that there was a past life and this life, and every newborn was reincarnated, and there must be some stories of past lives, unwillingness or resentment.
Girls are born in any period of time, there is not much bad to say, after all, the ancient demi-immortals are also very good at fooling people, and the babies born in each time period will be more or less "blessed", although there are also some bad, but there is always a way to restrain each other.
Image: Newborn baby stills
But at noon, it is many people who mind, because in ancient times, the most important punishment was generally carried out at noon, and the death of these convicted people was abnormal, although they deserved it, but the word "noon beheading" still made the people's hearts very happy.
At that time, people felt that people who died abnormally could not enter hell after death, let alone go to heaven, and that the way for them to be reborn was to attach themselves to another born little life.
In the ideology of people in ancient times, women belonged to water, and the yang energy was not heavy, if the girl was born at noon, it was easy to be attached to the soul of the person who died due to punishment at this time, so the girl born at noon was very pitiful in ancient times, and they would be regarded as ominous as soon as they were born.
Of course, this is just a superstition and prejudice in ancient times, after all, someone died in this room, someone was born in that room, and people at that time did not have popular science, it was easy to link two things together, and finally there was this statement.
Image: A still from being beheaded at noon
2. Men and women
Bagua I Ching occupies a very high position in ancient times, people believe that natural disasters and man-made disasters can be explained by Bagua I Ching, and even predicted in advance, in Bagua Yin and Yang represent both heaven and earth, but also represent men and women, the most yin and the most yang are actually not very good.
Midnight is at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, people in ancient times believed that this time was quiet at night, the sun was gone, it was really the night when the wind was high, the yang energy was the weakest, and the yin energy was the heaviest.
Men were the representatives of yang in ancient times, and yang energy was the most yin energy, and there was no problem when they were born at any time, but it was different when yin energy was the heaviest, and it was easy to invade yang energy when yin energy was the strongest, resulting in yin and yang imbalance.
Therefore, the ancients believed that there were some bad things when the yin energy was at its heaviest, and the baby boy born at this time was too weak in yang energy, so it was easy to be invaded by yin energy. Therefore, the ancients would have a fear of men born in the middle of the night, they always felt that the yin qi of the men born at this time was too heavy, and there must be a bad side, but it has not yet exploded, and if it breaks out, it may affect everyone.
Picture: Stills of the dark wind high at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night
2. Medical reasons
In fact, superstition is only a one-sided understanding of people, and in ancient times, people were particularly concerned about the birth time of their children, which was mainly related to the level of medical care at that time. Everyone knows that in ancient times, the emperor gave birth to more than ten or twenty children, but not many could grow up, because the medical level in ancient times was too limited, and a cold and flu could take life.
Therefore, in some large families in ancient times, children were generally raised until they were eight or nine years old before they were named, because they felt that children at this time were the healthiest. Even the wealthy are like this, so you can imagine how low the survival rate of babies is for ordinary people, so people think that the moment of birth of a child is related to their physical health.
Image: Stills from eight- and nine-year-olds
In ancient times, women gave birth to children on one leg into the coffin board, childbirth is an extremely dangerous thing, don't say anything postpartum bedperium, complications and other things that make the ancients helpless, improper fetal position will also take the life of the mother and the baby, and at that time the transportation was limited, if the child was born in the middle of the night, it was even more difficult for ordinary people to ask for a doctor at this time.
Generally, a stable woman is invited to help, although a stable woman can help with childbirth, but there is no way to help the child who is difficult to give birth. If there is a little bit of trouble in the delivery process, the doctor does not come in time, and the child does not receive comprehensive care, these will have a serious impact on the baby's health, so in ancient times, many children would have weak diseases, in fact, most of them were not received timely care and treatment during childbirth.
If a boy is born in the middle of the night, he will pay more attention to the elders of the family, and he is worried that the child will have some accidents due to the danger of being born in the middle of the night, so it is natural to have this statement.
Picture: Please help with the stills
3. When is the healthiest time for a child?
In fact, there is no scientific basis for the statement that when the child is born is the healthiest, because the health of the child is born is closely related to the living conditions Xi of the mothers.
1. Exercise more
That's right, some pregnant women have premature birth during pregnancy due to physical reasons, and at this time the doctor requires the pregnant woman to lie down more and rest more, so as to ensure the smooth implantation of the fetus and protect the fetus.
However, under normal circumstances, after 3 months of pregnancy, pregnant women can do proper exercise. Nowadays, many female celebrities pay great attention to their body maintenance, like Tang Yixin, who just gave birth to a child not long ago, and will insist on swimming in the third trimester, which are very healthy prenatal exercises.
Exercises such as yoga and swimming can not only help pregnant women exercise the strength of their hip muscles, which is quite helpful during normal delivery, but also have a good effect on maintaining body shape.
The picture comes from the Internet: Pregnant women swimming
2. Pay attention to your diet
The diet is too rich, there is not much benefit to the health of the baby, now people's living standards have improved, the normal diet is enough to consume nutrients, pregnant women do not need to deliberately eat more nutrients, excessive nutritional intake will lead to obesity in pregnant women, high blood sugar, and even affect the health of the baby.