Zodiac culture has a long history of thousands of years in China, and even in today's rapid change, it still has irreplaceable significance in people's hearts. In ancient times, the zodiac often played an important role in determining the fate of the individual, and the zodiac needed to be matched in many ways when getting married.
Nowadays, although there are no more superstitious ideas of red tape, the zodiac is like the constellation in the hearts of foreigners still plays its unique role in people's lives, and people can still be heard from time to time in the streets and alleys after tea and dinner to ridicule the difference in life caused by the matching and mismatch of the zodiac.
It shows that although the influence of the zodiac culture is weakening, it still has tenacious vitality, and the ancients used it together with the date of birth to predict the fate of individuals. Especially when it comes to marriage, whether the zodiac signs of men and women match has become the key to whether the ancients can marry. It may seem absurd today, but in ancient times, when superstition was prevalent, it was extremely common. With the development of zodiac culture in ancient times, the ancients also specially compiled many "experience" talks for future generations to check and emulation.
Among the ancient marriage etiquette, the "six rites" are the most well-known, which is a very serious and standardized blind date process in ancient times. "Nacai", "Ask Name", "Naji" are the three steps in the early stage, and "Ask Name" is not simply asking for the name, in fact, when asking the year, month and day of birth, because the ancient times are the Ganzhi period, the year, month and day are the heavenly stem and the earth branch to express, that is, the ancients said "four pillars and eight characters".
The ancients had eight characters and could use this to calculate whether each other was born or restrained in the sexagenary system, and this process was called "Najib". In fact, in addition to the eight characters, the ancients would also combine the zodiac signs to judge whether they matched each other's personalities. It also derives many related sayings: "dragons and tigers fight, there must be an injury", "white horses are afraid of green cows", "golden roosters do not meet dogs", "pigs with monkeys, not to the head" and so on.
As we all know, the ancients have always said that "the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker", and the marriage of an individual does not have the right to choose independently. Parents and "matchmakers" often decide their children's lifelong events out of consideration of multiple interests, and it is not excluded that a few parents are purely for the happiness of their children. It is precisely because of this that there are many tragic and desolate love stories and human tragedies, which also ruthlessly reveals the meaninglessness of the eight-character zodiac match from the side.
Back to the text, in the concept of the ancients, what are the stories of husband and wife who are the same?
Due to the adoption of the Ganzhi calendar in ancient times, the 12 zodiac signs were cycled for 12 years at a time. In this way, most of the couples of the same phase are the same year, and the age difference of a few is 12 years. The former is normal, and the latter is absurd in the feudal society where "men are superior to women", but it is not uncommon.
Although marriages of the same genus were a little special in ancient times, there were different theories about good or bad in different regions, and I think these theories were improvised to meet the needs of the time. Some areas say "two tigers are different mountains", "two sheep, not long", while some areas have the opposite saying "two rabbits in the same cage, flowers are full moon", "two dragons play with pearls, the four seas travel together" and so on.
Although these statements seem absurd, most of their original intentions are still good, and they are all based on people's yearning for a better life. In the environment of material scarcity, backward means of living, and feudal system, people have few ways to achieve a better life, and can only pin their hopes on the mercy of fate.
The same is obviously true of tying marriage to the zodiac, and the future is always unknown. Marriage is related to the lifelong happiness of children, and there are some rules to eliminate the occurrence of unhappy marriages to the greatest extent Obviously, it is also the "heart of the parents in the world", but the superstitious approach is obviously ignorant, not only easy to make a mistake, but also may attract blood and light disasters, and there are countless similar accidents.