Everyone more or less knows some oral sayings, such as: "Hearing is false, seeing is believing";"Plant melons and get melons, plant beans and get beans" and so on. Most of these sayings come from the folk, reflecting the life experience of ordinary people all over the world, or the hope for a better future.
There was an old man who said"Men are afraid of chickens, and women are afraid of sheep".What does this saying mean?Does that make sense?
Men are afraid of chickens, and women are afraid of sheep" means that if boys are chickens and girls are sheep, something bad will happen.
And chickens and sheep all belongZodiac signsOne of them, which is a unique traditional culture in China, is based on the year of birthIt is divided into twelve animal species, one-to-one correspondence.
But why did the ancestors think that the boys who belonged to the rooster had a bad fate?This point of view is closely related to agricultural production and life in ancient times.
Ancient times are primaryIt is mainly agricultural, male ploughing and female weaving, self-sufficient. The people take food as the sky, and the crops are the food and life of the ancients.
In the days when there were no alarm clocks, people wereRely on the "chicken" as an alarm clockEvery day at dawn, the rooster will crow and wake up the sleeping people to work.
This feeling, just like our modern "social animals", as soon as the alarm clock rings, you know that you have to get up to "move bricks".
In the same way, people in ancient times would wake up and start their day's work. In ancient times, there was no large-scale lighting tool, so farmers could only rely on the light of the sky to work.
That's why people are formedThe Xi of sunrise and sunsetAfter all, we must strive to work every minute and every second when there is light, so that the family can live a stable life.
So the ancients, naturallyAssociating "chickens" with laborIf yesMen belong to the chicken, you will feel that he isBorn to work hard, this life is destined to be non-stop running and very tiring.
In this way, the saying "men are afraid of chickens" was formed, and it has been passed down to this day. What about "women are afraid of sheep"?
Because"Sheep" is homophonic to "yang".。In ancient times, all things in heaven and earth were emphasized, and yin and yang were balanced, comparing men to "yang" and women to "yin".
Therefore if a woman is a sheep, thenYin and Yang imbalance, less feminine charm, and more masculine masculinity.
In ancient society, it was the male protagonist who was the female protagonist and the female protagonist who paid attention to it, the woman who was virtuous and virtuous, and who was diligent and thrifty. If it is as masculine as a man, it will be producedCommitting a rushhas led to discord between husband and wife, constant contradictions, and even more"The female sheep guards the empty house".and other negative sayings.
In the late Qing Dynasty, this saying was even more widely spread, because it led to the decline of the Qing DynastyThe Empress Dowager Cixi is a sheep
According to statistics, the average life expectancy of Qing emperors was about 53 years, but Cixi's husband, Emperor Xianfeng, lived only 31 years.
So there are rumors among the people that because Cixi is a sheep, Cixi sucked away her husband's longevity, resulting in the early death of Emperor Xianfeng.
In addition, due to Cixi's extravagance, the treasury gradually ran short, and the late Qing Dynasty was mediocre and incompetent, which led to the Qing Dynasty beginning to fall.
The ancient people who were superstitious in ancient times associated all this with the Cixi sheep and thoughtA sheep woman will have a bad influence on her significant other and her family
"Men are afraid of being lonely and taking three, and women are afraid of being widowed and having noon. ”Similar to "men are afraid of chickens, women are afraid of sheep", there is also a saying: "Men are afraid of being lonely and taking three, and women are afraid of widowhood and lunch." This proverb says that men are most afraid of being born at the third watch in the morning, and women are afraid of being born at noon.
The ancients thought it wassub-hours, that is23 to 1 am, that is, when the yin is prosperous and the yang is declining, the man born in this time period will have weak yang energy.
And a man's weak yang energy will be detrimental to his physical health and career development.
If a woman is born at 12 o'clock at noon, when the daylight is at its strongest, the ancients believed that the yang energy at this time is the most vigorous, and for the woman, it is the prosperity of yang and the decline of yin.
In the same way that men have weak yang energy, women have weak yin energy, which can also cause some troubles.
This kind of saying is talking about men as yang and women as yin, if it is due to some reason, it will cause an imbalance between yin and yang, and these men and men will be hurt or affected.
But in reality, the human body is not affected by the time of birth.
Among the ancient ** sayings that have been passed down to the present day,Some contain the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients, showing their ingenuity, butSome of them belong to the dregs culture produced by feudal society
After all, the ancients did not see the wider world, nor did they receive a higher level of education.
In ancient times, due to the limitations of the development of science and technology, it was very easy for many modern people to understand knowledge, but it was very difficult for the ancients.
As the saying goes, "Men are afraid of chickens, women are afraid of sheep", which we see as it is todayNonsenseEveryone knows that there is such a thing as fate, and no one can decide, let alone change it because of the genus.