The "Sayings of Confucius" records a dialogue between Confucius and Lu Aigong, which still has warning significance for the world. One day during the Spring and Autumn Period, Lu Aigong, the ruler of the State of Lu, asked the sage Confucius for advice: "The widows have heard that it is unlucky to expand houses to the east. ”
It's like today some people have to find a place in the bed, move to see the date, and the orientation of the desk to find someone to look at feng shui, Lu Aigong is also very superstitious about feng shui, so he asked Da Ru for advice, hoping to help him point out the mysteries.
Confucius replied, "There are five kinds of unknowns in the world, and the expansion of houses to the east is not among them."
Harming others, benefiting oneself, and over time will lead to ominousness, which is an ominous omen for a person to fail in life.
"Self-inflicted self-interest, ominous body"
Give up the support of the elderly, do not care for the elderly, do not take care of the elderly, but put all the care on the children, over time, the family will incur ominous, the family business can not prosper, decay is inevitable, which is an ominous sign of the decline of the family business.
"Abandoning the old and taking the young, the family is ominous"
Some people compare the family to a big tree, the child is the fruit, the parent is the trunk, the child's grandparents are the roots, always watering and fertilizing the fruit, delivering nutrients, without considering watering and fertilizing the roots, the purpose of the trunk is unattainable. ”
So what is the third type of ominousness?
Confucius went on to say: "Abandoning the wise and talented people and appointing those traitors and villains over time will lead to ominousness and even the destruction of the country, which is an ominous omen for a country to decline and decline." ”
Zhuge Liang admonished the Later Lord Liu Chan in the "Table of Renunciation": "Pro-Xianchen, far from the small people, this ancestor Han so Xinglong also; pro-xiaoren, far xianchen, after that Han so fell into decadence." "It is precisely because Emperor Huan of Han and Emperor Ling of Han favored a group of traitors and villains, which eventually led directly to the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The reluctance of experienced and talented elderly people to teach the next generation, the arrogant attitude of young people, and the refusal to humbly consult the elderly are ominous omens for society.
"The old do not teach, the young do not learn, the world is ominous"
The sages and the wise and capable are hidden in the wilderness, and the ignorant and greedy people are monopolizing the country in the DPRK, which is an ominous omen for the end of fortune for the world.
"The saints are hiding, the fools are usurping their power, and the world is ominous!"
These are the five ominous omens of the world, and the expansion of the houses you are talking about to the east is simply not worth mentioning compared to these ominous.
"There are five ominous things, and Dong Yi is not with yan."