What does the old saying "an ex-wife is like grass, but a post-wife is like treasure" mean?

In the long history of China, proverbs have always been regarded as a very important culture. The word "proverb" first appeared in Historical Records written by Sima Qian in the Western Han Dynasty. It refers to a folk saying, which is widely circulated in rural areas, so people in cities may be relatively strangers.

Proverbs have existed for a long time, about 2000 years. In fact, proverbs have strong regional characteristics, and people in different places have different understandings of the words circulating, so they later evolved into different proverbs.

Generally speaking, proverbs are dialects, proverbs, proverbs and local dialects. They are the summary of predecessors' life experience, and then, after the baptism of time, they finally evolved into popular and stereotyped sentences for later generations to warn the world.

Next, Bian Xiao brings you two very interesting proverbs.

One, seven don't go out, eight don't return.

There are too many things to pay attention to in the countryside, such as going out to see the yellow calendar. The yellow calendar is called the yellow calendar because the ancients wrote the date in a yellow book with wealth and the god of wealth on it. Although it seems a little superstitious, many people still believe it.

There are two versions of this proverb. The first one is that you can't go out on the 7 th day of the lunar calendar, even on the 7 th and 8 th, you can't go home from outside. This is groundless.

It is generally believed that the "seven" here does not refer to the seventh day, but refers to things like rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, which are often used in rural areas to refer to things like life at home, indicating that you must live a good life at home before going out.

The other eight meanings of filial piety, filial piety, loyalty, faithfulness, propriety, righteousness, honesty and shame are all fundamental to being a man from ancient times to now. From childhood, our elders taught us to learn to be a man first, and then learn to do things. That's all we said. If you can't do this, it means that even one person can't do it well. How can you go home?

In fact, proverbs also teach us the experience of life and the principles of being a man. What interesting proverbs do you have to share?

Second, the ex-wife is like grass, and the ex-wife is like treasure.

According to Bian Xiao's experience, the first love is beautiful, but most of them can't go to the end. This is not a curse, but when we first fall in love, we often don't know how to love each other. Many places can't be done well, and we hurt each other inadvertently.

The same is true in marriage. In rural areas, many people drop out of school early, then work early and get married early. This often leads to an unhappy marriage without knowing each other. Once there is friction, young people will divorce, just like playing house.

If you remarry, people will actually grow up and know how to cherish each other, instead of treating each other like children and treasures. In fact, this is the saying that the ex-wife is like grass and the post-wife is like treasure.

There is also a similar saying, "Half-way husband and wife are as hard as iron, and childhood husband and wife are as soft as cotton", which is also that the original wife will be considerate, while the half-way wife is generally as hard as iron and has a heart of stone.

Although these two sentences are a bit contradictory, it depends on how we look at them. It always reminds us to cherish the people in front of us.