In the production and life of our ancestors for thousands of years, we have summed up a lot of sayings, which are part of traditional culture, but also part of folk culture, and are also the inheritance of the wisdom experience of our ancestors.
In the process of thousands of years of development, the ancestors have always been communicating with nature, whether it is the balance of yin and yang that people say, or the unity of heaven and man that the ancestors pay attention to, the most fundamental lies in the communication between man and nature.
One of the most basic behaviors of people is to choose their own living environment, so the ancestors attach great importance to the choice of homestead and the construction of houses. The old ancestors even had "the homemaker, the foundation of man." People take the house as their home, and if they live in peace, then the family is Changji".
It is based on this that the ancestors of the people have summed up a set of exquisite and experience in choosing houses and building houses, and these exquisites have even been influenced by our ancient traditional culture, which is not only practical, but also endowed with profound cultural connotations. And these experiences and wisdom have also been summarized into a colloquial saying that has been passed down to this day.
One of them is "I'd rather live in a lonely room than find water and die in a hurry." So, what does the proverbial phrase "room of solitude" and "water rushing to the void" refer to? Why is there such a statement?
First of all, let's look at the so-called "lonely room".
The ancestors called the houses next to the toilets, garbage dumps, sewage pits, cemeteries, slaughterhouses, etc., unclean places where yin qi gathered, called them "lonely houses". Even people think that the house next to the hospital will be affected by the hospital's sick gas, and it will also be called "lonely room".
As we said earlier, when people choose houses and build houses, they pay great attention to the balance of yin and yang, which is the communication between man and nature. Therefore, when the ancestors built houses and chose houses, they must pay attention to the fact that the houses are in a place where yin and yang are balanced and full of vitality. Instead of places where yin qi gathers like garbage dumps and cemeteries.
Moreover, in the eyes of the old ancestors, the lonely yin room was lost in the balance of yin and yang, so it was not good news for the people and money in the family!
Second, let's talk about "water rushing to death".
The so-called "water rush" refers to the gushing water. The so-called emptiness is that people borrow the term divination to indicate that it is not good to do things. This means that if there is this kind of gushing water next to the house, it is not a very good thing.
In our traditional culture, there is a saying that "the mountain pipes the people, the water pipes the wealth". Folk people regard water as a symbol of wealth, and many people think that it is a very good thing to have water near the family home, so why does the ancestor still have the saying that "the water is in a hurry"?
In fact, the two are not contradictory. In the process of choosing a house in our ancestors, water is a very important house selection criterion. Water represents vitality and vitality, the provincial capital can also attract wealth and wisdom, and the ancestors have the saying that "the house takes spring water as the bloodline", so water is an indispensable embellishment in a house.
But not all water is good. The ancients said that "there is a sound for the fierce, the most jealous of sorrow", that is to say, only those slowly flowing, quiet and silent flowing water, is good. Those rushing rivers are not suitable as a homestead option.
The reason why the old ancestor said, "Prefer to live in a lonely room, rather than find a house of water and die in a hurry", is to say that he would rather live in a room of solitude than find a house where "water is urgent and empty". In the eyes of the old ancestors, the room of the lonely yin is far less powerful than the "water rush and empty death".
After all, in the eyes of the old ancestors, the house of the lonely yin is only harmful to people's goods, and "water and empty death" is unfavorable to everything, and may even damage the body.
Of course, such a statement of the old ancestor is more subjective and one-sided on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is also an exaggeration of the old ancestor. But to a certain extent, there is some truth to this saying, "Prefer to live in a lonely room, and do not find water and die in a hurry".