Rural saying: There is a teardrop house at home, and you cry every three years. What does it mean? What is a "house of tears"?
There is a saying from our ancestors, "If a house has a teardrop house, we cry every three years." This sentence actually evolved from a Feng Shui saying. The original saying is "A big house with sheds on the eaves, a small house with drops of water." A small house is called a teardrop house. If you build a house called a teardrop house, it will hurt your children and make your children cry." Having said this, many readers may not be able to imagine what a teardrop house looks like.
In fact, the so-called teardrop house refers to a short house that is slightly lower than the main house next to the main house. This kind of house is usually lived by people of lower generation. When it rains, the rainwater can slide down the eaves of the main house and onto the eaves of the short house, just like drops of tears falling on it.
That’s why the low house is called the teardrop house. It is not good for someone to live in such a house. In most rural areas, tear-dropping houses are very taboo, and they directly call such houses tear-dropping houses. When building a house, the houses must be well spaced to prevent rainwater from one eaves from falling onto another eaves.
Now it seems that this sentence is full of feudal superstition. How could a person's life, old age, illness and death be controlled by a few drops of rainwater dripping from the eaves? But upon closer inspection, this sentence still makes sense.
First of all, we can think about the structure of ancient houses. The houses of ancient people, especially the houses of ordinary poor families, were generally relatively simple. The tiles are laid directly on the roof without any adhesive tools. Therefore, if the wind is slightly stronger on weekdays, the tiles may be blown down. If it encounters windy and rainy weather, tiles and bricks are more likely to fall.
If there is a low eaves nearby at this time, the bricks and tiles will easily slide down the low eaves into the yard, or even directly smash through the other side's eaves. People who live in such houses are easily hit.
With one hit, he died, and the family must have cried bitterly. If the eaves of other people's houses are higher than your own, it is like hanging a sword of Damocles above your head, which may hit your head at any time. Looking at it this way, the so-called "Teardrop House" is indeed bad
On the other hand, the Teardrop House is short and the main house is tall. Coupled with the obstruction of the eaves, sunlight cannot shine into the teardrop room for many years. In addition, rainwater drips continuously on rainy days, and the walls of the house are inevitably affected by moisture. People living in such a dark and humid room with insufficient lighting are prone to falling ill.
In addition, the tall main house blocks the flow of wind, and the air circulation in the Teardrop House is not smooth. Over time, it will cause panic and shortness of breath, and it is easy to develop depression, which will affect the physical and psychological effects.
Even in modern society where technology is advanced and there are heaters and dryers at home, people do not want to live in low-rise houses that are in the shadow of other houses without having to worry about getting damp. The main reason is that people's psychology is easily affected by being without sunlight for a long time.
So, although the words of our ancestors seem rather feudal and superstitious, they still make sense. We need to look at it dialectically.