Some time ago, I chatted with the elders in my hometown village and began to talk about common sayings. It's hard to talk together for a long time, not to mention how happy you are. One of the proverbs aroused everyone's curiosity, "There is no one living in front of the temple and behind it, and the widow comes out from behind the temple on the left". I didn't take it seriously at first, thinking it was superstition. But after listening to many stories told by my elders, I became a little skeptical.
What is a temple? In fact, everyone doesn't know much about this, and it is easy to confuse temples, temples, shrines, temples and temples. Temples actually refer to the ancient central judicial organs, such as the well-known Dali Temple. Ancestral temples are generally built for celebrities, and now almost every village has its own ancestral temple. The scenery is generally Taoist architecture. In ancient times, buddhist nun was actually a scholar's study, but in the Han Dynasty, it became a building name dedicated to Buddhist women. This temple, in ancient times, was a place to worship ancestors. After the Han Dynasty, temples gradually became places for offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods.
Find out what a temple is and what a shrine is, and then talk about it. Why do you say "no one lives in front of the temple, and there are widows in the left temple and the right temple"? In rural areas, almost every village has an ancestral hall, which is the habitat for rural people to store homesickness and put their souls, and the ancestral hall is the ranking for worshipping this ancestor.
So people often go to worship and burn incense, while ordinary people live behind the ancestral hall and can't stand this kind of worship. So people are forbidden to live behind the ancestral temple.
Temples are places for offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods, and people from all corners of the country will come here to burn incense. From the folk point of view, the average person can't stand this kind of fragrance, which gives people a bad feeling. The second reason is the folk geomantic omen. Temples are sacrificial, so the yin and cold are heavier, which is the so-called "solitary yin is not born, and solitary yang is not long". In addition, temples are public places with many people, noisy bells and lack of tranquility, which is not an ideal living environment.
"Widows leave the temple, widows leave the temple" learned from the elders in the village that the temple belongs to a remote place, which interferes with and affects people's ecological environment. In addition, burning a lot of gold paper is easy to produce air pollution, which is extremely unfavorable to people's health. So it is easy to lead to a lonely fate.