The main meaning of the explanation is: the factors that determine a person's life are: fate, luck, feng shui, merit, reading (including cultivating the mind and cultivating the nature, learning knowledge, etc. ) in order of importance.
The original sentence first appeared in the Qing Dynasty and was written by Wen Kang, a Manchu writer in the Qing Dynasty. It is a description of the factors that affect a person's life, as well as some things that need to be paid attention to in the success or failure of a hit. It is often seen in Physiognomy and China's metaphysics.
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1, life refers to congenital factors. To put it more mysteriously, life represents the inevitability of our life.
2. Luck is luck, which can be divided into good luck and bad luck. Obviously, luck itself is full of uncertainty, but strangely, although it is full of uncertainty, our judgment of luck, or the performance of luck, is guided by some kind of result.
3. Feng Shui is a very mysterious thing. The sense that gives a person is abstruse, mysterious and mysterious. However, the "Feng Shui" we are discussing here is not to take its metaphysical meaning, but to simplify it.
4. Virtue is divided into yin virtue and yang virtue, so there is a distinction between "accumulating yang virtue" and "accumulating yin virtue". To put it simply, doing a good deed on the positive side is called "accumulating virtues", while doing a good deed without leaving a name belongs to "accumulating virtues". Obviously, "accumulating yin virtue" can better reflect a person's true quality and cultivation than "accumulating yang virtue"
5. There is an old saying in ancient times, "If you study well, you will be an official". Although reading is not the only way for a person to enter the official career, it definitely belongs to the most typical representative among many ways. Needless to say, in the feudal imperial examination era, even today, especially for rural children, reading is probably still one of the most important ways to change the fate of the family. Therefore, the word "reading" represents a person's success.