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What does asking for help mean in the old almanac?

The rural proverb "People come to ask me about three spring rains, and I'll ask people about the cold of the twelfth lunar month" is a rural worldly proverb, which mainly talks about giving what others want when they have something to ask for help, just like the storm in March. It's not so smooth to ask for help when you have something at home, just like the cold snap of the twelfth lunar month, when relatives and friends are afraid of making trouble, every household is shut at home. Let you beg every day, don't work hard, and even lead to despair, and your family will die of injustice.

People came to the hometown of the rural seven-star old farmer to ask me for three spring rains. In the past, no matter what happened at home, you helped me. When I help you, for example, when your family builds a house, invites a daughter-in-law, and engages in mowing and farming, whether the neighbors take money as a favor or help you harvest rice seedlings without hesitation, whenever they ask you, they never shirk or discount. Where there is wind, there will be wind, and when it rains, it will rain immediately, so that other people will really like you, indicating that you are a good neighbor, and some people will praise you.

I want to seek help in the cold of our countryside1February. Asking for help often happens, but not everyone is responsive. Sometimes you really need to ask for help instead of saving yourself, especially when you have a big problem at home and borrow money from relatives and friends to go to the hospital for treatment. For example, when I borrow money from you, you are generous, but when I need to borrow money from others, others are afraid that you will not be able to pay in the future.

At that time, if you knew that this relative was rich and could borrow money, but you didn't want to lend you money, for fear that you wouldn't pay back the money in the future, did you feel disappointed at that time, just like the weather in the twelfth month? Did you feel cold after eating the closed-door vinegar of your relative's house, just like the winter in the twelfth month?

Therefore, personally, the rural proverb "People come to ask me about three spring rains, and I will ask people about the twelfth lunar month and winter" is mainly a secular proverb. Its main meaning is that others ask me for help, and I ask others for help, without any feelings of relatives and friends, which is not in line with the development of modern harmonious society. We have to end it. Only the spirit of Lei Feng is worth learning and developing.