When I went back to my hometown in the countryside during the Chinese New Year, it really scared me that day.
Here's the thing, I followed my parents to my grandparents' house, and when I arrived in the village, many people greeted us warmly and said, "It's quite early to come back this year."
I feel that in the village, the changes are quite big, many small alleys have been labeled, and when I arrived at the door of my grandmother's house, I found an empty place and stopped.
When we arrived at my grandmother's house, it was almost time for dinner.
After we entered the gate, sure enough, we saw grandma and grandpa, having dinner.
Grandma was very happy to see us, so she beckoned us in and said, "Your grandfather and I are having dinner, and I didn't prepare it for you, why didn't you say it in advance?"
I'm going to get you dinner in advance, and I'm going to get two bowls, and you can sit down and eat two bites.
After eating, my grandmother said, "You have been driving for so long, you are tired, so you should rest early."
Since I had been playing with my phone, before I knew it, it was almost 12 o'clock, and my parents had fallen asleep, so I realized that I hadn't washed up yet.
I looked at my watch, it was so late, and then I got out of bed and went to the bathroom to wash up.
I was looking in the mirror and brushing my teeth, and suddenly I seemed to see a shadow pass by, and when I turned my head, I saw that there was no one, and I thought to myself, what the hell is this.
But how can there be a ghost in the world, it must be dazzling to play with my mobile phone, and then I started, washing my face with my head down, and suddenly someone behind me patted me on the shoulder, and I screamed in fright.
I turned my head and saw that it was my grandmother, so I said to my grandmother: Grandma, you scared me to death, why don't you sleep in the middle of the night?
My grandmother said to me, "I heard movement outside, come out and take a look."
I immediately told my grandmother that I had been playing with my phone just now, and I hadn't washed it, so I dragged it out until now.
Grandma then said to me solemnly: Don't look in the mirror in the middle of the night, you will see bad things inside.
I smiled and said, "Why, there's only your precious granddaughter in it."
At that time, my grandmother said: Haven't you heard an old saying, don't go to bed three times, peace and auspiciousness.
I was very curious, what are the three don'ts?
I then asked my grandmother to understand, have you ever heard such a sentence, do you know which three don'ts are, is this old saying reasonable?
Let me give you a detailed explanation.
Some people may often listen to the old people, talk about this matter, and say that it is very evil, saying that if you don't look in the mirror in the middle of the night, you will see something yin.
In some horror movies, it is often seen that in the middle of the night, I suddenly got up and looked in the mirror, and a person suddenly appeared in the mirror, with a cloak and a frightening appearance.
Also, don't look at the window in the middle of the night, if you wake up in the middle of the night and see the wind blowing in and the window is not closed, then don't look out the window.
When I was young, I often heard my grandmother tell me that if a child looks out of the window in the middle of the night, he will be frightened and see something bad, then at this time, the child will not cry on the second day.
This incident was very evil, and I didn't know if it was true or not, and I was very young at the time, so I felt very scared.
Then someone said, I have seen it, and nothing has happened.
This kind of folklore is actually a kind of fantasy of people, it may be that people in the past, sleeping in a daze in the middle of the night, the grass outside is moving, they feel like people, going back and forth, which makes people afraid.
In fact, it is a psychological phenomenon that has been passed down from generation to generation.
I heard people say in the past that a bed is a place for a person to rest, with a person's yang energy, but the bed that has not been used for a long time, or an empty room, will be entered by some bad cold things.
If people go in again, they will be attached to their bodies by these things and will easily get sick.
Therefore, it is often said that if a bed is long and no one sleeps, then when it is used, it is necessary to change the position and do not use the previous position, otherwise it will bring mildew.
Some adults always tell me that the toe of the shoe should not be oriented towards the direction of the bed, when I am generally small, the shoes are always facing the side of the bed, because when I am small, I always lie on my stomach, and my face is facing the bed, so it is more convenient to go up, so the shoes are generally in the direction of the bed.
Then someone said, I've been like this since I was a child, and I haven't seen anything happen to live so well.
In fact, this is just the statement of the older generation, don't believe it, maybe it is the older generation, fooling the children, making the children obedient.
In the early days, there were many things that people did not have a scientific explanation, so they used some theology to explain them.
For example, what we often say about ghost pressing the bed, in fact, it is not that the ghost is pressing us, but when we are sleeping, the sleeping position is wrong, and it presses the nerves.
At this point, when we get up, we feel a little numb, as if someone is holding us down.
In fact, most of this kind of thing is a superstitious statement, how comfortable the shoes are, and there is no need to deliberately put the shoes outward.
If the tip of the shoe is facing the bed, then getting up in the middle of the night will be inconvenient, and you may even trip, so the gain outweighs the loss, so you don't have to listen to these old sayings.
Some old sayings are just auspicious, and there is no need to abide by these sayings.
If it brings great inconvenience to our lives, then we should not listen to it.