The old saying in the village: "When a man passes seven liang, he comes to seek wealth." What does it mean? Does it make sense?
Science in ancient times was not developed, and many ancient people called all unimaginable things metaphysics. In ancient times, people paid great attention to their birth time and birth date. They even regard these as their own destiny for the future and as the basis for whether the future will contain wealth and blessings. Until the 21st century, it is said that there are still many common sayings in folk customs. Most of the common sayings are superstitious, and many people say that "it is better to believe that something exists than to believe something does not exist." In our daily lives in the 21st century, we still have to follow the pace of science.
Is there any truth to these common sayings in their mouths? The old man often says, "Wealth is hard to find when you are older than seven taels." Do you know what it means? What does the "seven taels" mentioned in it mean? 1. What is the meaning of "when a person passes seven taels, wealth comes to seek"
When old men in ancient times read fortunes, they often calculated a person's wealth and life prospects based on the time of birth and the weight of the bones at birth. length. The "qi liang" in "When a person passes Qi Liang, wealth comes to seek" refers to the weight of people's bones at birth. In the eyes of the ancients, everyone's bone weight was different when they were born. The length and bone weight made up by the ancients can indicate that their destiny is good and they will have more wealth.
The ancients believed that if a person had more than seven taels when he was born, it would mean that his life would be extremely wealthy. According to the Book of Changes, most people in ancient times did not weigh more than seven taels at birth, and the average weight was mostly around 4.5 taels. Since most people's bones at birth do not weigh more than 7 taels, when they estimate that a person is lucky, they will match the person's bones with the time period of his or her birth.
In addition to measuring the weight of a person's bones, people in ancient times also classified the duration as Chou hour, Chou hour, Yin hour, Mao hour, Chen hour, Si hour, Wu hour, Wei hour, Shen hour, Zi hour, Xu hour, Haishi. Some people born here at different times have different fates, different birth dates, and even different levels of wealth represented by the weight of their bones.
It was precisely based on this kind of thinking that the ancients concluded some results that determined our future destiny, and had no choice but to lament that the wisdom of our ancestors was indeed strong. The position of fortune teller in ancient times was relatively popular. As long as they mastered the "Book of Changes" to read people's fortune, read the grain fortune, and read the birth stage and birth date to determine a person's fortune, they generally did well.
This is because people in ancient times believed in Feng Shui, fortune-telling, and metaphysics, so there are common sayings that have been passed down to this day until the 21st century. We can only develop a deeper understanding of the wisdom of our ancestors. If we want to put some metaphysical and fortune-telling concepts into the 21st century, this seems difficult to achieve. Nowadays, most people believe in science and have abandoned superstition. It is more difficult to make a living in the 21st century. 2. How should we treat common sayings
Due to their limited cultural and artistic level, the ancients could only attribute some difficult-to-express situations in daily life to metaphysics. In the eyes of the ancients, people's fate was determined by heaven when they were first born. Whether they will be rich or not, and how long they can live, is actually decided when a person is born, and we cannot change it.
They believe very much in fate and believe that fate is in the hands of God. As people in the 21st century, we have received higher vocational education, and we have also encountered scientific explanations for some things that cannot be expressed in ancient times. Therefore, we cannot overly believe in some common sayings that are still widely circulated in rural areas, as long as we understand them.
Like some metaphysics and theories about ghosts and gods, the saying about fortune-telling is actually not very accurate. What a person's life will be like, poverty or wealth, is all related to their temperament or the choices they make over and over again. It has nothing to do with the weight of the bones at birth and the birth date. As for the common sayings summarized by our ancestors, you can ask for them if they are reasonable, but you can ignore them if they are unreasonable. Summary:
Rural elders often say, "When a person passes Qiliang, wealth comes to seek." This is something that has no scientific basis. The superstition in the proverb is often too heavy. Even so, it is not difficult for us to see the wisdom of our ancestors in the following proverb. Until the 21st century, there are still many common sayings that have been widely circulated to this day, and some of them may contain true knowledge. There is nothing inappropriate in ignoring the common sayings that are often used by the older generation of people, with a superstitious color, and soliciting a lot of certain true knowledge.