It turns out that East Asian parents have regarded giving birth to babies as a business ...... from ancient times to the present
There is a housekeeper who is known from far and near because of his simple life.
One night, the housekeeper had a dream in which a stranger broke into his house and said that he owed a huge sum of money—forty thousand, and that it was time to pay it back.
He asked who the other party was, but the other party did not answer.
Soon after waking up, the housekeeper's wife gave birth to a boy, and the housekeeper suspected that the child had come to collect debts. So, he kept his forty thousand dollars in separate custody for the child's support and expenses.
In this way, more than three years passed, and the money was gradually spent to only seven hundred.
One day, the nurse came to play with the baby in her arms, and when she saw what little money she had left, she said to the child half-jokingly: "Look, the forty thousand are running out, and you should almost go." ”
Before the words fell, a terrifying scene happened: the child's face turned pale in an instant, his neck was strangely broken, and his eyes left the world with his eyes wide open.
The housekeeper used the remaining money to buy a coffin for the child and bury it.
Pu Songling believes that it is better not to owe debt. If you have never treated others badly, and others have not treated you badly, then why do you have a child?
If a family welcomes an excellent child, it may be that God wants to repay the kindness of his parents; If a child is born naughty, it may be in this way to ask his parents for old debts from his past life.
Therefore, there is no need to be too excited about the birth of a newborn, and there is no need to be too sad when facing the loss of life.
Pu Songling used the cycle of cause and effect to illustrate his understanding of the relationship between parents and children.
Life in the world is like a process of mutual debt, you give to me, I repay you, like settling an emotional bill. When this "debt" is repaid, people's worries and fetters will naturally dissolve.
But in modern society, there may be different interpretations.
How many parents see having a child only as an economic account, calculating the ratio of input to output? Children are the gift of life, not a ledger symbol to measure gains and losses.