There are always a lot of sayings circulating among the people, most of these sayings are closely related to our daily life, there may be a certain truth, or it may just be a paradox, but no matter what it is, it is worth scrutinizing, after all, some of them seem to be nonsense, but in fact they hide unknown wisdom.
For example, our ancestors always followed this proverb when building houses:"The white tiger covers the green dragon, and there are poor people from generation to generation".It may not make sense at first glance, but there is something we don't know about, and the experience summed up by these ancients must be understood and passed on, so this responsibility falls on our shoulders, so what does this sentence mean?
01 What is "White Tiger Cover Green Dragon".
I believe that you have heard of the green dragon and the white tiger in your daily life, they are the four palace beasts in ancient Chinese mythology, the green dragon guards the east, representing the wood in the five elements, and also represents vitality, and the white tiger as its opposite is just the opposite, as the sacred beast guarding the west, the main killing, representing disaster and bad luck.
Of course, these statements are all false and have no real meaning, so then again, what does these two divine beasts have to do with building a house? In Feng Shui, the four houses represent the four directions, which also indicate good luck and evil, and people adjust the feng shui pattern through different orientation changes to achieve the desire for a prosperous family business.
Therefore, the ancients put a lot of effort into building houses, and the green dragon and the white tiger are nothing more than representing the east and west directions, and the white tiger covering the green dragon literally means that the west overshadows the east, that is to say, when building the house, the house in the west is higher than the east.
Under normal circumstances, Chinese people pay attention to building houses facing north and south, rarely have a special orientation, that horizontal must be the east and west position, and whether it is ordinary people or rich and noble families, most of them will not build only one house, in addition to the main house in the middle, there will be side rooms on both sides, which is also the "standard" of ordinary people. Since the side will build a house, why not exceed the height of the main house? Is it true that the ancients believed in some feudal superstitions too much, so they listened to and believed them, so is this really the case?
02 The importance of the structure of the house.
Judging from the actual situation, although the ancients said that they were superstitious, they were not unreasonable, and the attention to the construction of the house was also in line with certain scientific principles.
First of all, because our country is located in the northern hemisphere, the sunshine direction from southeast to northwest, if you want the lighting of the room to be good, you must adjust it in combination with the actual location, but in general, it is in the direction of sitting north to south, and there is little difference between non-special areas, and the east-west direction should also pay attention to not having shelters, otherwise it will affect the lighting of the houses on both sides.
If the house on the west side is higher than the main house, then the sunlight in the main house will be blocked after the afternoon, and if it is too high, it will probably be blocked for a day, and the house on the east side will be in a situation of insufficient light all year round, and in the long run, the interior will become darker and more damp, and people will inevitably get sick if they live in this environment for a long timeIn particular, the elderly and children, people with weak immunity have a higher rate of disease, and they cannot build such a house due to the health of their families.
The second is that there is a certain adverse effect on the house itself, the top of the house in many areas is usually spire-shaped, so the design is conducive to roof drainage, snow removal, to avoid the backlog of debris, but if a room is higher than the other, and adjacent to each other, then the rain and snow that slip down when it rains and snowfall will wash the houses on the adjacent side, and the ancient houses are basically civil structures, and the continuous erosion will definitely accelerate the aging and corrosion of the house, and ultimately affect the overall solidity.
03 What is the explanation of "there are people who are poor from generation to generation"?
After reading some objective facts, let's look at the second half of the sentence "There are people who are poor from generation to generation"? From the perspective of feng shui, the green dragon and the white tiger are two opposing representatives, the green dragon represents auspiciousness, and the white tiger represents fierceness, the two must be based on the east of the green dragon, so as to maintain the balance of feng shui in the home, otherwise it will lead to too much evil qi, so when the ancients built a house, the house in the west was generally lower than the east one.
If you do the opposite, it will only destroy the original feng shui pattern, causing your home to become a vicious place, at least the loss of wealth, or the destruction of the family, because of this, the ancients said that this will lead to the poverty of future generations, of course, such a statement is not credible, but also alarmist, it is completely the decadent ideas of the old feudal society.
However, we also see that the ancients attached great importance to the family, and the ultimate goal of these exquisiteness or misunderstandings they put forward is actually to hope that their family will be happy, and they will be able to get rid of poverty in the future and have more and more wealthEven if it can only be a wish, it is difficult to realize, they still have illusions, after all, in the traditional feudal society, if the people at the bottom want to have any great development, the opportunity is really rare, the only support for them is to place unrealistic illusions, and then to pin on future generations.
Having said that, some of the sayings put forward by our ancestors are based on their own life experience, or they may be simply the cognition of backward cultural thoughts, which will inevitably bring us wrong information and even affect our daily life habits. Therefore, we cannot fully deny it, because many sayings have a philosophy of life and wisdom of life, and at the same time, this is also a part of traditional Chinese culture, which needs to be inherited and developed by us, and the beneficial culture will be passed on.
04 Epilogue. Although the proverb is no longer valued by people and gradually forgotten, we must always remember the spirit and concept of our ancestors, perhaps in their generation there is no way to realize the grand ideal, and there is no chance to change the fate, but they will do their best to help future generations to create a better social environment, and the rise and development of the Chinese nation is achieved through the accumulation of this generation, so in our generation can not forget the mission of revitalizing China, with the expectations of our ancestors, but also with our dreams, to build a better motherland.
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