The respect of cow sleep, what does cow sleep mean?
Cow's sleeping respect is generally used as a packaging language during burial.
The following is the origin of the word:
According to legend, in the early years, a family named Ye gave birth to two sons in Luoyuan County, Fujian Province. Unfortunately, both of them were idle, hanging around in casinos all day
, leaving a sick father at home. Their uncle is a member of the public and has more money, so they often go to his house to cheat money and gamble on the pretext that their father < P > buys medicine. Once, when they lost all their money and came home, they found their father was dying, so they went to my uncle's house and cheated < P > twenty taels of silver. As a result, they lost all their money again, only to find that their father had died when they got home. They had to go to my uncle's house again and explain the reason. At this time, my uncle happened to be on business and took fifty taels to let them bury their father. I hate that they took it to the casino and lost it all. Finally, they swept away their father's body with grass and carried it to the mountain for burial. When there was a thunderstorm on the road, the loose soil collapsed, which just wrapped him up. A few days later, my uncle asked the two brothers to take him to see their father's grave. On the way, he repeatedly praised the good feng shui of the mountain, which < P > looked like a sleeping cow and pointed out where the head, body and tail were. Finally, he sighed that it would be nice if their father was buried here with a straw mat. The brothers asked why, and my uncle explained that if your father was buried in the place where the cow slept, it would mean that you
are blessed, and the cow likes to eat grass. If your father's body is wrapped in straw mats, your brothers will be rich and expensive.
When the brothers heard this, they both knelt down, explained what happened, and made up their minds to turn over a new leaf. My uncle gave each of them twelve taels of silver as travelling expenses and instructed them to join the army. Finally, my brother went to our time and my brother went to the Ministry of War as an assistant minister. When they returned home dressed in gold, in order to repay their father
' s parenting kindness and wash away the previous name of unfilial, they rebuilt the grave for their father and wrote four characters
on the tombstone. The "respect for the cow's sleep" came from this.
During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese invaders invaded Fujian's coastal areas, and descendants of Luoyuan Ye moved to Pingyang Beigang, Zhejiang, bringing this custom to Pingyang Beigang.
The ancients believed that the "cattle sleeping place" was a land of good fortune for a long time, and they believed that building a graveyard here would make future generations promoted and rich. Xiang
biography, which has something to do with Tao Kan, the great-grandfather of Tao Yuanming in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. When Tao Kan lost his father and was about to be buried, he suddenly lost a cow at home. Tao Kan
looked around and met an old man on the way. He told him that if the deceased was buried in that place, the descendants would be "extremely human". Tao Kan buried his father according to this, and it really came true.