"If there is water behind the house, you will see the grave when you open the door, and the child will not return if the family is ruined." What does the advice of the ancients mean?
"If there is water behind the house, you will see the grave when you open the door, and the child will not return after a family failure" is a folk saying in my country. For a long time, people have believed that such a saying has no scientific basis. However, this is not the case.
China has been based on rural farmers since ancient times. People’s experience and wisdom are spread, and many of them can be called rural sayings. Although these common sayings inevitably contain elements of feudal superstition, many of them are summaries of experience and wisdom. For this part, we still have to listen carefully. This proverb mentioned by the subject of the question is one of them.
Although this sentence is quite exaggerated, there are still some lessons that can be learned from it.
There is water behind the house, which means that when the house is being built, it is best not to use a flowing water source behind the house.
In fact, this situation is especially common in the south. In the hilly areas of the south, rural areas in many places are almost crisscrossed by rivers and covered with water beaches. But when everyone is building a house, they try not to let this water flow through the back of the house. In fact, this is not entirely a superstitious reason. It has a certain scientific basis, because the flow of water will wash away the surrounding soil, which will cause the foundation of the house to loosen in the long run. In the event of a flood, it will cause the house to collapse.
As for visiting graves with open doors, this is also a very taboo thing in rural areas.
After all, most people in China are buried in the ground, and they pay attention to the burial. However, if the tomb is placed directly opposite the house, it will be difficult for the deceased to rest in peace, and it is difficult for the living people to rest in peace. People are not good either. After all, if you open the door and see a tomb, there is still some bad luck. People in rural areas believe that it will have a certain impact on the fortune of the family.
It can be seen that many common sayings in rural China still have some empirical truth in them. Even if they have no absolute scientific basis, they are also a summary of the life wisdom of Chinese rural people.