Everyone knows the saying "take the essence and discard the dross". In ancient times, there were many sayings, sayings and so on that were handed down. Of course, after our extraction, many seemingly deviant ones The common sayings have been abandoned, but these "dross" are still spread in some remote and backward rural areas. People living in rural areas believe in these rules very much, and for this reason they also pay great attention to Feng Shui and Yin Yang and the Five Elements. These ancient "dross" are even passed on to the next generation, such as the saying: "When rain hits graves, noble people will appear; when rain hits coffins, wealthy people will be scattered." This sentence is still followed by many people in rural areas.
So this proverb is really the advice of our ancestors. Now that we have learned about socialism, will we still abide by this proverb? So what is this sentence about? This proverb in ancient times refers to what we should pay attention to when holding a funeral. The current funeral system involves cremation and then burying the ashes in a cemetery. But in ancient times, ancestors were buried in ancestral graves with a coffin. The emergence of this proverb is related to rainy days during funerals.
Here I have to mention a poem: "It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to die." When it rains during the Qingming Festival, the ancients believed that the deceased were expressing their reluctance to their descendants, so it rained. Extending to ancient times, an elder in the family passed away. After the funeral, it started to rain. This is God's feeling that the children and grandchildren of this family are very filial, making the deceased reluctant to part with the warmth of the world and leaving tears. Only when the warm tears move God will rain come down to let future generations know about the deceased. People's nostalgia. With such filial people, their family's luck will not be too bad in the future. Over time, there is a saying that "when rain hits the grave, noble people will emerge." Now in rural areas, if such a situation occurs, the family will be evaluated as a filial family and will definitely have a great future.
How to say "Rain hits the coffin, and the wealthy people are sparse". The funeral ceremony usually takes 3 days. The body of the family will be kept at home for a few days to be worshiped by family members and close relatives. The burial will not be carried out until the third day. If there is a rainy day during the funeral and burial, people will think that this is because the old man does not want to be buried in peace and is still unwilling to accept the reality. It may be because his children are not filial to him enough and he has not finished talking about his children. So I left tears of unwillingness when I was buried. In this way, the "rainwater" will wet the coffin, and people will know that the children in this family are not filial. This family that has not received the blessings of their ancestors will definitely have a withered talent in the future, and will decline sooner or later. Over time, people have spread the saying "rain hits the coffin, and the wealthy are scattered".
The original intention of this saying is to make the children at home be filial to the elderly and not let the elderly leave with regrets. Today, this saying is no longer appropriate. Even without the constraints of this proverb, every Chinese daughter of ours should bear in mind the traditional concept of filial piety to the elderly. Even if we cannot be with the elderly all the time due to work or study reasons, we still care about the elderly in our homes all the time. The tragedy of "a child who wants to be raised but cannot be cared for" will never happen again.
As the saying goes: If you take good care of yourself during your lifetime, you are actually filial piety; if you give him a poor burial after you return, you are really a wise child.
Of course, true filial piety cannot be judged through a funeral. Could it be said that the more glorious the funeral is, the more filial it is for the children. True filial piety requires us to show it in our daily lives. Remember everyone's taste, cook a favorite meal for your family, hand-sew warm clothes for your family when the weather turns cold, etc. Although these gifts are light, what they contain is us. Full of love for the family. These small daily things are the embodiment of filial piety.