When I was a child, we all sang a nursery rhyme: one bucket is poor, two buckets are rich, three buckets and four buckets sell tofu, five buckets and six buckets open pawnshops", and there are "seven buckets and eight buckets to do officials, nine buckets and ten buckets to enjoy Qingfu" and so on.
Maybe the content of this nursery rhyme sung in each place will be different, but it's not much worse, in short, the more "buckets" in your hands, the better. I remember when I was a child, when I was playing, I often competed with my friends to see who had more "fights" in their hands, and those who lost were more depressed, and those who won would be very proud.
Especially if you only have three or four buckets, you will really be very frustrated. Because of "three buckets and four buckets to sell tofu", and since ancient times, everyone knows that the trading of tofu is a particularly hard occupation, usually in the middle of the night to get up to grind tofu, and then very early to carry the burden along the street to sell.
Then there are more than seven "buckets" in their hands, and they are all victors - because the nursery rhyme says "seven fights and eight fights are officials, and nine fights and ten fights enjoy Qingfu". Although it is not sung in the nursery rhyme, there is another saying, which is called "ten fingers without fighting, and a lifetime of wealth"!
According to the nursery rhyme sung when I was a child, the more "fights" on my fingers, the better, but why do you say "ten fingers without fighting, a lifetime of wealth"?
We know that the "bucket" on the finger actually refers to the spiral circular fingerprint, although everyone's fingerprint is different, but most people's fingerprints will have a few bucket-shaped lines. The ancients discovered very early that fingerprints are a unique mark of the human body, so as early as the Qin and Han dynasties, fingerprints were used in contracts or crime investigations, such as ancient land deeds, which required fingerprints to be officially effective.
The "bucket" pattern on the finger, because it has good identification characteristics, usually uses the finger with the bucket to leave the credential, which used to be called "drawing finger coupons" or "starting the book". The people who buy and sell the title deed are often either rich or expensive, at least they are also rich and landed middle class, so the saying that the more "fights", the better, actually refers to the number of land deeds on the fingerprints of the family, probably the same as the number of real estate certificates now, that of course, the more the better.
Why is it true that "one life is rich"? This is actually a common saying spread among the poor people at the bottom of the ancient times. Ten fingers without a bucket, it is not that there are no fingerprints, but that there are no fingerprints at all.
What kind of person doesn't have fingerprints? That's the hard-working person. In ancient society, it was divided into four classes, "scholars, farmers, and businessmen", and the highest status was "scholars", that is, the group of scholars and scholars, and then the lowest status of business, agriculture and craftsmen belonged to the middle level, but they were the most hard, and these two groups had the largest number of people, and it was also difficult to cross the class.
In the past, for most ordinary people, the only way out to live a rich life was to rely on their hard-working hands and work hard and work hard!
Day after day of hard work, will make the palm of the hand give birth to thick calluses, even the fingerprints are worn off, although hard work may not make people really rich, but in the hearts of the people there will always be a simple desire to "work hard to get rich", so we often say "hard work", is the traditional virtue of the Chinese.
When we were children, we sang "one fight for the poor and two for the rich", now we have all grown up, and we also know that fighting more and fighting less is not the basis for winning or losing in life, and similarly, the saying of "ten fingers without fighting, one life is rich" is not realistic, but no matter what kind of social class you are in, every hard-working person will always be worthy of respect!