Why did the ancients have the habit of "keeping a deserted grave rather than living in a deserted temple"?

There is a simplified version of the saying that "it is better to spend the night in a deserted tomb than in an ancient temple." What does this mean? Is an ancient temple more terrible than an abandoned grave? To tell the truth, the ancient temple is really more terrible than the barren grave. This is a personal problem.

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An inaccessible cemetery. What you are afraid of is nothing more than a ghost fox that no one has ever seen. As long as you control your inner fears, there is nothing to be afraid of in a deserted grave, which is the same reason that ghosts will never invade the bed. You sleep alone at home, afraid of death. You are covered with a quilt and suddenly feel full of security.

Ghosts say they believe, but they don't believe. The main factor of being afraid of ghosts lies in your psychology. If you are open-minded, ghosts and gods will not bother you. The so-called "no guilt, no fear of ghosts knocking at the door." Besides, it is said that ghosts are afraid of evil people. The kinder, the more timid, the more haunted by ghosts (villains). If you really meet a ghost, you have the courage to fight him hard. When the ghost sees it,

In addition, from the perspective of geomantic omen, the cemetery is actually a good choice for a person to spend the night in the wild, because China people have always attached great importance to the geomantic omen of a secluded house, and the cemetery is usually located in a higher position, with a mountain facing the water behind it, which is relatively open, so that even if it rains and blows at night, there will be no water after crossing the mountain.

In this way, natural disasters are avoided to some extent. Moreover, there is no shop in the middle of the village, and there is basically no need to worry about man-made disasters. You know, if there are monsters in this world, it is far less terrible than people's hearts.

Bubu huang temple

Compared with the deserted temple, the deserted tomb gives people an intuitive feeling that the deserted temple is more comfortable and safer, because even if it is dilapidated, it has walls and roofs, and it is not afraid of wind and rain, but you must know that others will choose to spend the night here besides you.

For example, ancient pedestrians chose an abandoned temple for the night, which is equivalent to modern people choosing to spend the night under the overpass when they are desperate. Who are the people who spend the night under the overpass? Passers-by are all kinds. I'm not saying that these people are bad, just strangers to each other. You don't know what they are like. People have ulterior motives. Maybe one of them is a fugitive.

So do abandoned ancient temples. You can make do with it at night. You don't know where the fugitives are, where the mountain king is, where the warlords are, and there may be monks in the abandoned temples themselves. Together, are these people really safer than a cemetery? Obviously impossible.

Again, if there are monsters in this world, they are far less terrible than people's hearts.

Let's take a look at those terrible deserted temples in ancient literature.

Abandoned temples in literary works

The most famous is the Water Margin, in front of which there is a red-haired ghost drunk in the Lingguan Hall. Who's Liu Tang with the red hair? Bandits! He came here to find Chao Gai to discuss the interception of birth programs. He's a fugitive, isn't he? You should be in the Lingguan Hall, and you will be scared to death when you see him.

Then there is the snow mountain temple in Lin. Lin is certainly a good man, but he was framed in this mountain temple and almost lost his head. After the blood of Song Wu splashed on the Yuanyang Building, he also fled to the small ancient temple for the night and was tied up in the middle of the night. Later, he met flying centipedes and things like that, so I won't go into details; Lu went to the crock temple for the night and met two monsters who were also fighting.

Think about it, there are people who dare to attack Wu Tie Jiro and monk Hua, not to mention you and me.

In Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, there are also many strange things in the ancient temple. Let's not talk about monsters like Fox Fairy and Mandrill. Let's talk about Nie Xiaogan. This belongs to the category of monsters. Just say the cloth dealer, an expert, went to the temple for the night. As a result, he met a group of evil monks who not only robbed money, but also killed people. If it weren't for the woman in red, it would attract the general to guard Haibu.

Wait, in many ancient documents, it is written about the night, the ancient temples, which are thrilling and bloody in all likelihood, showing the terrible place of abandoned temples.

"One person doesn't enter the temple, two people don't look at the well, and three people don't lift the wood", just like this sentence "It is better to live in a deserted grave than to live in a deserted temple", which is all about human nature. A stranger who stays alone in an ancient temple may look gentle and polite, and he may be a good man himself, but many tragedies happen in the word "getting rich".

Therefore, it is essential to prevent people. It is better to stay in an abandoned grave than to live in an abandoned temple.