What do you mean by "the gate is too big, and the family is ruined?" Does this make sense?
Want to know what this sentence means? Nature must first understand why there are such building rules in metaphysics. However, first of all, we must know what this hall refers to. Some people may not have this hall.
When I was a child, my mother told me to leave every day before dark after school? Don? That smells good, so I know the meaning of this sentence. Let me tell you something:
The gate is too big. What is the hall? There is an old saying in Fujian that a good woman doesn't marry Putian people, but she is talking about my hometown. It is said that rural people in our country are not only patriarchal, but also very feudal and superstitious.
Even if you live in a community in a city, you can't change the concept of superstition. There should be an incense burner at the entrance of the community to burn incense, and there are ancestral halls in each village.
However, this phenomenon is actually because people here have better preserved some traditional customs and cultures. Now many customs can't be found anywhere else. But we can find it there. Of course, these customs were not invented by our rural people, but passed down from generation to generation.
Before 2000, some friends may think that there will be several tablets at the main entrance on the second floor of their home, and these tablets are their ancestors. In fact, if it was placed in ancient times, it should be placed on a desk in a separate room. This place is called a hair salon.
Our rural economy is passable, and many of them are small two-story courtyards built in the early 1990s. Those spirit tablets were moved to the second floor opposite the gate on the first floor. As for why not put it on the first floor, it should be as high as the second floor, just considering that the gate is too big.
The gate is too big, which means it can't be higher than Maotang. This hair hall refers to the memorial tablet of your ancestors.
Our ancestors are above us. If you put the height of your gate higher than the ancestral hall, it would be a bit outrageous. This is considered disrespectful.
In order to show the respect of future generations to their ancestors, the doors of the rooms where ancestral tablets are usually placed are built relatively short and the hair hall is relatively high, so do you have to bend over every day when you enter the door? Is this bending equal to saluting the ancestors?
The gate is too big, and the family is ruined. Knowing the meaning of the hall will make the interpretation of this sentence much easier.
In the past, the table where the spirit tablet was placed was generally a rectangular table with a height of 1.5 meters. There is a board nailed to the top of the table, and there are several spirit cards on the wall.
If your home is large, you may have set up different trapezoids on the wall, with the earliest ancestors on it, arranged in turn.
If you enter the ancestral temple and rank higher than them, it is equivalent to not paying tribute to them. Just like Tomb-Sweeping Day doesn't burn incense or put flowers as offerings when he goes to the grave every year.
I used to pay attention to metaphysics, that is, after death, people did not disappear into this world, but went to another interface. You go to incense the ancestral tablet, just like talking to the ancestors. He is squatting, but you are standing. You look down at him and he looks up at you. This is disrespectful to your ancestors.
To sum up, the door is too big and the family is defeated. This sentence is actually a statement of feudal superstition and ancestor worship. If there are temples and ancestral halls where memorial tablets are stored, as long as you pay attention, the gate is generally not higher than the place where memorial tablets are placed.
As for whether they are right or wrong? Personally, I think that whether it is a scientific explanation or a metaphysical explanation, we should maintain a respect for our ancestors, that is, our ancestors. This respect has nothing to do with superstition, but gratitude. They are our ancestors, and we should kneel and knock for them. After all, without ancestors, how could there be today, right?