We should all have heard of the saying of shit luck, that whoever walks shit luck, generally speaking, it is bad luck that I didn't expect at the beginning, and it has become good luck after all kinds of coincidences.
But most people don't know that the story behind this shit luck actually contains the rules of operation in the world that we Chinese believe in.
Let's talk about the origin of shit luck first, it is said that there used to be an old man surnamed Zhang, the family lived very poorly, plus the wife and children of the family, a total of three people can work in the field, but life is still tight.
One year, during the Chinese New Year, according to the usual rules, everyone in the village had to go out to welcome the God of Wealth on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and if anyone could pick up something strange on the ground, it would mean that there would be wealth in the new year.
This old man participated in this event on time and on time in previous years, but after welcoming him for so many years, he didn't wait for the God of Wealth to patronize, and even his son was so old that he didn't even have the money to marry his daughter-in-law.
Old man Zhang screwed up, this year is to say that he will not go to welcome the God of Wealth, at midnight, go out with lanterns from house to door, and go to the east to welcome the God of Wealth, Old Man Zhang called his son, maverick to the west.
What do you mean, I just don't go to welcome the God of Wealth, what can you do to me, no matter how poor I am, can I be poorer than now?
After the old man Zhang walked for a while, he grabbed a handful on the ground casually, thinking about picking up a stone, but he didn't expect to feel that his palm was hot, and when he looked down, it turned out to be a piece of shit.
Angry old man Zhang turned his head and left, on the way happened to meet the rich man in the village, usually the old man Zhang would say hello respectfully, but today he couldn't take care of it.
Unexpectedly, it was this departure that made the rich man misunderstand, he thought that Old Man Zhang had picked up something terrible on the ground, and he hurried home for fear that people would find out.
So he came to visit Old Man Zhang several times, wanting to ask what Old Man Zhang had picked up, but he didn't expect Old Man Zhang to be very tight-mouthed, and how many times he asked was an answer, picking up a piece of shit.
The more Old Man Zhang didn't say it, the more the rich man felt that the Zhang family was going to be developed, so he gritted his teeth and married his daughter to Old Man Zhang's son.
After these two young people got married, the rich man's daughter asked her father-in-law from time to time what her father-in-law had picked up, but she never asked.
Until one day when she was cooking, she poked the stove and found that there seemed to be an empty place inside, so she went in and dug up, only to find that there was a jar of gold hidden in the dark compartment.
This little daughter-in-law happily went to find her father-in-law with gold, and said, I knew that father-in-law you must have picked up something good, and now I found it, don't hide it from me after we are all a family.
I didn't expect this old man to look like a ghost, and after sorting out the ins and outs, he knew that this gold was a windfall, if it weren't for the ** he caught a few years ago, I'm afraid that Old Man Zhang would not have known that he had hidden this great wealth in his family in his life. The life of the old Zhang family became more and more prosperous in the future, and since then, shit luck has become a special kind of good luck.
Let's go back to the beginning, why this shit luck is related to Zhuangzi, not because this is the story of Zhuangzi's invention, but because Zhuangzi advocates not being trapped in the heart and going with the flow.
In the face of difficulties and calamities, if you insist on demanding, it may get worse and worse, saying that misfortune and fortune are relied on, blessings and misfortunes are lurking, cause and effect in the world are entangled, and the unhappiness and bad luck in front of you may come to fruition in the future.
So don't worry too much about the immediate gains and losses, do your best, and time will give the answer.
So, don't feel like you're carrying too much of your back next time you're unlucky, maybe there's a lot of luck behind it.