The experience summed up from their real life is to prevent future generations from following in their footsteps.
The common sayings at that time were all made according to the social background at that time. Now some may no longer be applicable to this society and are gradually being eliminated, while others still have their own reasons and are worth learning by future generations.
There is a saying today: there is a field in front of the door rather than a small facade in front of it. This sentence caused great controversy in rural areas, mainly because the social background at that time made many people have different views on this sentence.
Moreover, in the past, rural people basically distributed fields to every household, and in the past, rural people made a living from fields, and most people had to grow rice, wheat and various crops to maintain their daily lives.
First of all, I'd rather have a small house area.
So the importance of farmland to them is the guy who eats.
This led them to have a great controversy about this sentence, because it affected their own interests.
In the past, some rural people in rural society felt that if someone else's farmland was in front of their house, it would be particularly inconvenient and unsightly for them to go back and forth.
So most people certainly don't want other people's farmland planted in front of their own homes.
Then another group of people have different views. Instead, they think that even if other people's farmland is in front of their own house, it is much better than all the mountains in front of their own house.
I think people who say this mainly because their house is farmland, and they can't change this fact. It is better to change their mentality than to change this fact. As long as it is not a mountain, they would rather have a small house area.
But it can't be said that their statements are right or wrong, because everyone has different opinions and everyone has the right to express their opinions.
The reason why this proverb is widely circulated is mainly because in the past, many rural areas basically lived with their neighbors, either related by blood or sharing the same surname, so it was very common for every village to share the same surname in the past.
In the past, some villages were located in remote mountainous areas, and some villages were located near streets, which had advantages over mountainous areas.
Some villages are surrounded by rice fields or planted wheat.
So in the past, there was a possibility that your front door was really someone else's farmland, and your back was also your own farmland. This phenomenon is still very common.
Second, why can there be fields in front of and behind the house?
So in fact, in the past, it was very common to have someone else's land or your own farmland in front of your house.
In the past, most people in rural areas could accept it, because it was like this around their neighbors, and it was not good for everyone to complain about each other.
Then why do many rural people think that there can't be other people's farmland in front of and behind the house? Mainly in the past, rural families basically raised some livestock.
In general, these domestic animals may like to run around and cannot be kept in cages forever.
Then there will be their own chickens and ducks, which may run to other people's farmland, because after all, it is in front of the house, which will destroy other people's crops and involve other people's interests.
There will be many contradictions between neighbors, and there will be many quarrels over farmland.
Secondly, other people's farmland must be fertilized in the sowing season, and in the past fertilization was basically done with feces.
Feces have a particularly strong smell, which will make many neighbors very disgusted.
As soon as you open the door, it smells bad. Maybe they will get used to it after a long time.
And even if they can't accept it, there is an unwritten rule in the countryside. Even if the situation is worse, they dare not easily destroy other people's farmland, because farmland is the guy who used to feed rural people.
If the house is in front of their own fields, many people will gladly accept it.
In the past, people still hated this, mainly because of the social unrest in the past, when many people did evil. If there is a very dangerous situation at home.
Summary:
If there are farmland in front and back, so that they can't escape smoothly, it will endanger their lives.
Secondly, it is about the geomantic omen of the house. Some people may think that other people's farmland will block their own financial path.
In fact, no matter what kind of statement is analyzed from modern science, it is actually unfounded, because there was a very serious feudal superstition in the countryside in the past.
Mainly related to the social background at that time. What do you think of this sentence?