These two days, because of my bad state, I secretly gave myself three days off, indulged myself and did nothing to relax myself and imagine freely. This is one of my hobbies, so I especially cherish these three days of leisure time. Strangely, in these three days, the number "three" seems to appear frequently in my life, and it is always "three".
Wake up in the morning, pick up the phone and prepare to record a reading. I ordered one at random, and then I read: friend, it's not easy to walk for three months, but more than three years is worth cherishing ... why three months and three years? Why not take a rain check? Does "three" have any special significance?
After lunch, my sister asked me to accompany her to get a haircut. Maybe it's because this holiday is too long, and I stayed at home for too long. I want to find a way to indulge myself. My sister insisted on cutting the long hair that has been left for more than 20 years into super short hair that is popular now. I advised my sister to think twice, but it was useless! Girls probably all have this experience. When they suddenly want to get a haircut, they will collect similar pictures online every day and then imagine how they cut their hair. It must be beautiful! That's what my sister thinks, so don't hesitate to cut it. When the barber operated, my sister was dumbfounded and tears came down, which was completely different from her imagination. The barber naturally has his story: you are not used to it now, but it will look good after the first three days! Haha, it's "three" again. It's amazing!
In the evening, I plan to write something. It suddenly occurred to me that a friend had sent me something I needed in his circle of friends, so I quickly opened it. As a result, my friend only showed the contents of the last three days, but was turned away by this "three"
On this day, I seem to be walking on the road of "three", and my mind is full of the number "three". Because I pay special attention to it, it appears more frequently, and my mind begins to unconsciously search for the contents related to "three": three meals a day, three minutes at a time, think twice before you do, three visits to the thatched cottage, three students, three students, if I have three lights, three characters classics. ...
I can't help wondering. I want to dig the bottom of "three"
After this investigation, I realized that the number "three" is so widely used that I have to start with its original meaning.
The "three" in Zhouyi, as three divinatory symbols, represent heaven, earth and people respectively. This is the original meaning of "three". Secondly, Sansheng: In Taoism, three means everything. Chapter 42 of Lao Zi's Tao Te Ching: Tao gives birth to one, two, three and everything. The origin of all things is life, life and the evolution of life. "Three" gives birth to everything, that is to say, the number "three" is the critical point of qualitative change. Xu Shen said in Shuo Wen Jie Zi: Third, the way of heaven and earth. From this perspective, we are in charge of everything.
In China, the number "three" plays a more important role in "ceremony".
A long time ago, people in China were still doing divination. "Book of Rites. "Quli Shang" contains: "No more than three divinations." Suyun Wang: "The gift is thirty percent. Sooner or later, if you are unlucky, you will not give it. " In other words, "three times" has become the limit of fortune telling. The meaning originally represented by "three" has gradually developed into a kind of "ritual" norm of the ancients. In other words, "three" is the number of gifts, and one more or one less is regarded as indecent assault. Generally speaking, it is what we often say, "Things are no more than three." At that time, there were many "rituals" in daily life, such as "worshipping the sky and worshipping the high hall" when getting married, and only three worshippers could count as rituals; Toast should be "three rounds", and three rounds are polite; In the ancient war comity, there was "retreat from three schools", in order to retreat for progress; Pay attention to "think twice before you act" and act comprehensively. Wait a minute. All these have profoundly explained the importance of the number "three" in the minds of the ancients.
It contains infinity with finiteness, which is the key to the biochemistry of all things, the critical point of quantitative change and qualitative change, and finally evolved into a fate of China people's action principle in a long time. After a series of evolution and characterization, the number "three" often appears in literary materials. "Historical Records" once recorded: "The number starts with one, ends with ten, and becomes three." What do you mean, the number starts from the beginning and ends at ten, and "three" is the whole. Therefore, we can take four great classical novels as examples, and we can see that the number "three" appears frequently. Journey to the West includes Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon, Three Borrowing Banana Fans, and Three Entering a bottomless pit. Even the first hero is called Tang Sanzang. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Tao made three trips to Xuzhou, three trips to Caotang, and Zhuge Liang made three trips to. In A Dream of Red Mansions, "Granny Liu entered Guo Rongfu three times". "Three visits to death row for mercy" and "Three visits to Zhu Village" in the Water Margin.
Everything has its origin. Knowing the meaning of the number "three", it is not difficult to understand why we can meet it again and again in the history of literature and why we will meet him constantly in our lives.