All kinds of things emerge in an endless stream, especially modern people's requirements for housing are even more strange. Even if it is a high-rise building now, residents should sit facing south, with good lighting and auspicious floors.
But before the reform and opening up, there were not so many high-rise buildings, some were quadrangles, or villages and factories.
But even low-rise houses have different requirements, especially for feng shui.
There are many geomantic sayings about houses and buildings, such as "I'm afraid the green dragon will take off and the white tiger will look up" and "it's not suitable to enter the house".
The former may be heard less, but the latter is a familiar sentence for many rural families.
At that time, food was mostly in short supply, so almost every household had little surplus food, even if there was more, it could only be taken out on special days, but people's brains at that time were unstoppable. Although they didn't eat much, they slowly turned their eyes to the land near the eaves. Based on the positive idea that as long as there is land, they will not starve to death. Great working people plant mulberry, walnut, apricot, pear and so on.
However, this kind of training is also very particular. After all, most people at that time were superstitious and planting should not be chaotic. We have to ask the old man's opinion. The older generation has a lot of experience in this field. They all warned the younger generation not to plant "mulberry, Eucommia, jujube, locust, plum and pear" near their homes.
First, jujube trees: attracting mosquitoes
In fact, jujube trees were also very popular in ancient times. After all, who doesn't like to see a bumper harvest as soon as they go out? But that's the problem. Everyone knows that this food is edible, not to mention birds, insects and mosquitoes caused by jujube falling on the ground and rotting, and it may also bring diseases. No one likes trouble, so in ancient times, people planted jujube trees in suitable places near their homes to avoid these problems.
Second, mulberry, Sophora japonica and Eucommia ulmoides: poor meaning
In fact, mulberry, Sophora japonica and Eucommia ulmoides are of great benefit to us now and in the past.
Among them, I believe that people who have stayed in the countryside for several years know that it is a treasure, and mulberry leaves can only raise silkworms.
Mulberry fruit is edible, that is, tongue, palm and excrement may turn purple! The main reason why people don't want to plant it at home is that the homonym of this mulberry is "mourning", so people feel unlucky.
In fact, the reason why most people don't want to plant locust trees near their homes is that it is said that this locust tree is actually a place where ghosts live, just to attract ghosts.
At that time, this alone was enough for more than half of the people to avoid it, not to mention that the word Sophora japonica was not a "wooden ghost" or "returning at dusk", so few people planted Sophora japonica near their homes.
In fact, I don't want to plant Eucommia ulmoides partly because it can't be eaten, and its function is mostly medicine. However, its trees are too high as family landscape trees. After all, an adult Eucommia ulmoides can be as high as 20 meters, which is out of reach when there are no high-rise buildings, not to mention the consequences if trees wither and collapse in the future.
Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. is not suitable for planting at home in any case.
Third, plum trees and pear trees: homophonic "Li"
In fact, in ancient times, people mostly paid tribute to homophonic things, such as "jujube" giving birth to your son, and so on. It is not difficult to see that people at that time paid attention to some homophonic words.
It is necessary to get married, not to mention planting some trees next to the house that may destroy Feng Shui.
So people didn't like pear trees and plum trees at that time. Pears and plums are homophonic "far away", so most of them are planted just one or two plots away from home.
I can see it at home so that when the fruit is ripe, it won't be picked by others.
Summary:
Although not many people have mentioned the saying that "it is not suitable to enter the house" now, after all, most people have begun to believe in science, and kept the good omen of most of the past, but this does not delay us from learning more about China's traditional culture.
Even though many people begin to forget these proverbs now, it makes sense to be passed down by so many people at that time.
In fact, most young people now choose to live in cities, and occasionally return to the countryside because of their parents. Maybe these proverbs will gradually fade out of the stage after more than ten years.
But some memories will be firmly remembered.