As the old saying goes: "Good things come in pairs", almost everyone has heard this sentence in their lives, especially many elderly people often hang on their lips. The moral of this sentence is very good, but it begs the question, why do you have to be a good thing?
Judging the quality of a thing from a numerical point of view is a bit superstitious.
In the modern age of science, it is inevitable that it is rash and hasty to make assertions based on just a few figures. However, in the feudal era thousands of years ago, people judged things in a very different way than they do now, and this is a fact that deserves our attention.
Although feudal ideas have received little attention in modern society, some theories that have been passed down through colloquial culture still have an impact on our lives.
For example, no matter who does the design of clothes nowadays, there will be some works with singular buttons.
It turns out that this phenomenon is the opposite of good things in pairs, and the ancients considered things in the form of singular numbers to be a symbol of bad luck, so the singular number of clothing buttons did not seem to them to be a good sign.
But the views of the ancients are not as simple as later generations imagined, according to the ideas of the ancients to design clothing, the buttons of the jacket are usually singular. This can be confusing, as even numbers are often considered auspicious.
But in reality, there is an ancient allusion hidden behind this. First of all, you need to understand the statement about yin and yang in the I Ching, and everyone should already know this knowledge.
In the feudal era, the ancients attached great importance to the balance of yin and yang, believing that the balance of yin and yang qi was the best state. Yang energy is seen as a symbol of masculinity, while yin energy represents femininity.
In addition, there is also a view that the sky is yang and the earth is yin, which can be traced back to the heaven and earth hexagram painted by Fuxi. If Tai Chi does not separate the two instruments, there is no concept of yin and yang.
Subsequently, the singular number is considered yang and the double number is considered yin, which is different from the common opinion. Due to the extremely high status of the I Ching in the hearts of ancient people, this view in the I Ching quickly gained public recognition.
Initially, people gradually began to understand the difference between yin and yang and understood the difference between yin and yang in a literal sense. The reason for the name Yang Qi is that the importance of the sun to human life is self-evident.
Yang energy often represents a positive spirit, and in a patriarchal society, men are seen as an important pillar of social development, and the biological differences between men and women led to the rule that the throne could only be inherited by men in feudal times.
This means that men will always have to focus more on their personal careers, while women need to think about family and the love life of their husbands. In general, it is the men who are responsible for going out and the women who are responsible for taking care of the family.
Over the past thousands of years, this pattern of life in a patriarchal society has become a unique landscape of daily life. Knowing the allusion to yang, yin is naturally seen as a symbol of negativity.
In real life, the concept of singular numbers as yang and even numbers as yin is still widespread, for example, cement steps in many places are usually singular, which is a common phenomenon.
If we analyze the views in the I Ching from the perspective of Feng Shui, we will find that the crystallization of the thoughts of the ancients is not much different, but there will be an additional saying in Feng Shui that is homophonic and unlucky.
In ancient times, people believed that the pronunciation of the word "double" was the same as the word "injury", and if their lives were full of even things, they might consider it to be an unlucky omen, or even think that it would have a negative impact on the fortune of the entire family.
This is a very serious question for those who consider fortune to be very important. In addition, the ancients also believed that odd numbers like "one, three, seven, nine" were "numbers of days", and these numbers were often considered a symbol of good luck.
From the perspective of gossip, whether it is a yin hexagram or a yang hexagram, the horizontal number is extremely important, and the horizontal number of the yin hexagram is naturally even.
On the other hand, the horizontal number of the yang hexagram must be odd, which is similar to the previous two forms of view, and the result is the same, but the expression is slightly different.
As the so-called "four or six is not successful", the two numbers of four and six are still taboo by many people, and the reason is that they come from the saying in the divination. This statement mentions that there are two starting points that are absolutely unusable, and that the numbers corresponding to these two starting points happen to be four and six.
I believe that many people have heard of the idiom "four or six don't understand", and its birth is also derived from this saying, which shows how influential this statement is.
Some people are called "don't know", they seem to know how to present themselves in social situations, but in fact they don't have a high thirst for knowledge. Their academic achievements are often hard to compliment, but they have a lot to say about the rules of the entertainment industry.
These people are always at a loss for priority, and they don't know what is important and what they should work on. The "four" in the idiom sometimes also represents the "four books", which is a book that the ancients thought must be read, but these people have not even read this kind of basic books.
In ancient times, people had a deep expectation and pursuit of life, and they believed that by changing the details of life, such as the number of buttons on clothes, good luck could be brought about.
In the agrarian era, people were more eager to change the fortunes of the family, so they used all means, even according to the beliefs of the feudal era with a high degree of information blockage, to reverse the fortunes of the family.
This nuanced attitude reflects people's desire for a happy life and their expectations for the future.
In the absence of modern networks to quickly obtain information, the ancients could only rely on their own imagination to place hopes, although this behavior has a certain superstitious color, but it is also undeniable the significance of its existence.
After all, the environment in which the ancients lived was completely different from that of our modern people, and they had their own unique attitudes and ways of life, just as we could not understand the modern life in the eyes of the ancients.
The customs and ideas of different times and spaces have their own characteristics, and we should respect them, because they are the result of the wisdom of our ancestors.