How did the ancient people ask their children? What are the ancient methods for predicting fetal sex?

How did the ancient people ask their children? What are the ancient methods for predicting fetal sex? I will provide you with detailed related contents.

Speaking of pregnancy, it has been nearly ten months before and after, and I believe many expectant mothers and prospective fathers will be curious about whether this upcoming life is male or female.

However, at present, China's laws do not allow us to check men and women in advance, so we can only wait patiently until the day when the baby is born to solve the mystery that has plagued us for ten months. However, for the ancients, how to predict the sex of the fetus during this pregnancy is a big thing. After all, based on the ancient environment, giving birth to boys has become the "lifelong career" of most ancient women, which has to be said to be a tragedy under the background of an era.

I want to put a picture like this at the moment.

Well, let's put aside the moral aspects. After all, there are many such critical articles. Based on the underdevelopment of ancient medical technology and people's urgent need for sex, how did the ancients predict the sex of the fetus? Are these methods accurate or not?

In fact, until today, there are still some folk methods to predict men and women, such as the following. It is estimated that every pregnant mother has heard one or two sentences more or less:

(1) The mother looks serious and will give birth to a boy; A kind expression will make you feel girly. (2) If the sides of the stomach are wide, girls will be born; A boy will be born in the middle. (3) If the mother's diet changes, a boy will be born; If you don't change, girls will be born. (4) The fetus on the right side of the mother's belly is a boy, and the fetus on the left side is a girl. (5) If the mother wants to eat sweets (spicy), she will give birth to girls; Likes to eat sour food, and may have a boy. (6) The fetal activity in the mother's belly is relatively frequent, and it is a girl; On the contrary, for boys. (7) Families with wives will have boys; The girl will be born in a family where the husband is * * * *: (8) If the reaction is mild, the girl will be born; Serious will give birth to a boy. (9) A gentle mother will give birth to a girl; In a hurry, a boy will be born. (10) Mothers often eat meat to give birth to girls; Eating green vegetables often will give birth to boys. (1 1) After the abdomen bulges gradually, boys will be born if the navel is more prominent. (12) If the hair or eyebrows of the hand become thinner, a boy will be born; Constant meeting gives birth to a girl: (13) At the moment, the fetal movement reaction is intense, and it is a boy; I have a stomachache. It is a girl. (14) When there are black spots and freckles on the face and it is difficult to make up, boys will be born. (15) The mother's stomach sagged and swelled, giving birth to a boy; A bulge near the belly will give birth to a girl. (16) A mother with deeper depression will give birth to a boy, while a mother with less depression will give birth to a girl. (17) If there is a horizontal stripe on the thigh of the first-born baby, there is a high probability that the next-born baby will have a boy; If there are two stripes, the probability of having a girl next time is very high. (18) If the first child is a boy, it will be pregnant within 1~2 years, and the second child will also have a boy; If the interval is 4~5 years, the probability of giving birth to a girl is high.

As for whether it is credible, mothers can compare it, and the accuracy may not be very high.

In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, "Wu Wang Pinghua (Middle)" has such content:

"One day, da ji said:' A child (catalpa) can tell whether it is a male or a female in a pregnant woman's stomach.' The king said, "How do you know?" Da ji said,' I'm afraid the king won't believe me. Try to distinguish a few pregnant women from footmen and maids. The king said,' According to Qing. Then I announced to a hundred pregnant women, Your Highness. Zhou Wang asked da ji, "Is that a person?" "Is that a woman?" Da ji called the woman to sit down and get up again. Da ji said:' The person who lifts his left foot first is a man, and the person who lifts his right foot first is a woman.' "

There is a saying in ancient books that Zhou Wang dissected a pregnant woman, and it was very early. Mozi Ming Ghost: "In the past, Wang Yin was guilty of burning and killing, and only took pregnant women." Shu Tai, an ancient poetry merchant in China, said: "Burning loyalty, picking up pregnant women." Kong Anguo biography: "That pregnant woman, just have a look." Depending on the sex of the fetus. Many books, such as White Tiger Li Tongle and Huai Nan Zi Dao Ying Xun, describe this, but they don't explain how to judge the sex of the fetus first. Zhou Wang this evil, but full of twists and turns, at that time already had a judgment, perhaps the so-called "male left female right".

It has been circulated among the people, and was adopted by folk writers in the era of "Wu Wang Jian Ping Hua" to expand readers' knowledge and increase the novelty of books. There is no reason why men are left and women are right in the book, and there is no textual research. Obviously, the author himself doesn't know its context and reliability. Speaking and singing literature naturally promoted the spread of this statement.

As early as the Book of Songs, it was recorded that pregnant women dreamed that bears gave birth to men and snakes gave birth to women: "What about Ji Meng? Wei Xiong is a majestic snake. Adults occupy it: Wei Xiong Wei Wei, a lucky man; The snake is the auspicious sign of women. "

It is the basic practice of Chinese medicine to diagnose gender through the pulse condition, face and behavior of pregnant women. The Pulse Classic written by Wang Shuhe, a native of A Jin, holds that the constitution of the fetus will affect the state of the mother, so we can infer the physical characteristics of the fetus by diagnosing and treating the pulse condition of pregnant women. It is considered that the left hand pulse belongs to yang and the right hand pulse belongs to yin, so the pulse condition of pregnant women is "left hand sinking and right hand floating, female;" With heavy and solid hands, two men were born; Hands floating, two women born. "Further judging by the phase of ulnar pulse, it is concluded that" the left ulnar pulse is male and the right pulse is female, and both sides have two sons ".

The General Theory of Diseases and Syndrome in Sui Dynasty put forward two methods to distinguish the sex of the fetus by observing the behavior of the parents of the fetus: one is to call the pregnant woman from behind, and if the woman looks back from the left, she will have a boy, and if she looks back from the right, she will have a girl; The second is to observe the physical changes of the fetal father. "When a woman is pregnant, her husband has a left nucleus and a right nucleus." Sun Simiao, a doctor in the Tang Dynasty, suggested that the pulse frequency of pregnant women can also be divided into sexes. The one with faster pulse frequency in the left hand is a male fetus, and the one with faster pulse frequency in the right hand is a female fetus.

On the basis of the previous generation's experience, doctors in Song Dynasty deepened and expanded the method of fetal sex prediction. For example, "Guidelines for Disease Examination" transferred the symptoms of * * * proposed by Sui people from the fetal father to the mother, and thought that in the process of breast development of pregnant women, "those with nuclei in the left breast are men and those with nuclei in the right breast are women".

Su Hanchen Changchun Bai Zi Atlas is partially collected in the National Palace Museum.

The Guide to Disease Investigation also points out that judging the sex of the fetus needs to comprehensively consider the pulse frequency, nature and pulse condition of three parts of the pregnant woman: "the left foot pulse is male and the right foot pulse is female", "the left foot pulse is male and the right foot pulse is female", "the foot sun bladder meridian pulse is male and the hand Taiyin lung pulse is female". The basic understanding is that the yin-yang nature of male and female bodies is different, so it will be reflected in the mother's pulse. When the pulse phase is positive, doctors can judge it as a male fetus, and when the pulse phase is negative, they can judge it as a female fetus. If there is a situation that "yang is seen in yin and yin is seen in yang", it should be judged according to the principle that men have internal yang and vulva, and women have internal yin and external yang, and according to the most essential pulse phase.

In the Song Dynasty, there were even successful cases of judging the sex of the fetus. It is recorded in The Theory of Medicine that "Shi Yao Chen is ill because of his wife's obedience, and it is hard to treat more doctors", but Hao Yun, a famous doctor, thinks that she is pregnant and diagnosed the fetus as a boy, which is indeed the case. However, it was originally 50-50 to give birth to boys and girls. This situation can only be said to be correct.

There is a saying in Huainan Xunzi: "Marry at thirty." Gaoyou has a detailed comment on this: "People who get married at the age of 30 are all born to their children. The number of children who have been separated from each other has been away for 30 years, ranking third. Women from the son, the son of heaven for 20 years, still in the third place, husband and wife. Therefore, saints get married at the age of 30 and at the age of 20, because this is a ceremony. He has counted himself, and there are ten left, so he was born in Yin in October. Therefore, the number of men starts from Yin. The number of women has been counted and the correct method has been adopted. Born in October of Shen: therefore, the number of women began in Shen. "

From this description, we can see that the number of yin and yang mentioned by the ancients is related to boys and girls.

The ancients thought that physiognomy meant that essence is the essence of pregnancy, yang is male and yin is female, and fertility is also reflected in the image and color of the mother. Mr. right ear is thick, and Mr. left ear is thick. Give birth to a girl with a thin waist. Those with tattooed lips have more children, while those with green lips and white teeth have more daughters. In addition, men and women who have children can look at the ribs of the tiger's mouth. A man with a blue left lip gives birth to a woman with a blue right lip. On the right, there are three kinds of life women in shades of red, life men with rosy palms like water, and life women in white and green.

In the Song Dynasty, people had tried to intervene in the relationship between men and women through the tricks of Yin and Yang. This process is to specify the time when men and women affect the formation of fetal sex, especially when the sun is shining. It is considered that the first 1, third and fifth days after menstruation is the best date for conception, and the timing should be chosen. The male fetus should be after midnight and the female fetus should be before midnight. Because "from midnight to midnight is qi, and from noon to midnight is death", many medical books in the Tang and Song Dynasties recorded the view that pregnancy on a sunny day after menopause is beneficial to giving birth to boys. For example, the second paper on pregnant children in Woman describes this method in detail and explains the reasons: "After a woman's monthly letter stops at the beginning, one day, three days and five days are worth men and women. If both men and women are strong, they will have many children. When there is cowardice, there are fewer children. "

The Silk Paintings of Fuxi Nuwa Collected in Xinjiang Museum

According to the understanding of "dividing men and women in March", post-pregnancy intervention is mainly in the early stage from the first pregnancy to the third month of pregnancy, and it mainly exerts its influence through contact with special substances. That is to say, according to the principle that the fetus changes like a pictogram in the early stage of pregnancy, there is no fixed instrument, so that pregnant women can wear or contact articles similar to the ideal fetal sex. This kind of record has long existed in the book of vividness in Han dynasty, but in Han dynasty, it was a method of paying equal attention to men and women, and in Tang and Song dynasties, it became a method of "changing women into men" for the purpose of obtaining boys. According to the "Prescription for Pregnancy" of the Tang Dynasty, wearing bowstring and realgar, and placing an axe under the bed of the lying-in woman are all helpful for giving birth to a boy. There are more similar descriptions in Yi Xin Fang, such as "I was pregnant for three months and urinated when the rooster took a bath", "I took four heather plants under the mat" and "I took five eggplants under the bed", all of which can give birth to boys. On the basis of the Tang Dynasty, the Song people made new contributions. For example, in Zhang Gao's medical theory, the secret method in the palace is "feeling pregnant before the full moon". Take the crossbow string as the belt and solve it in March. "Another example is the" Women's Prescription ",which says," Take the husband's hair and hands, feet and nails and lie under the mat without telling. " "

Generally speaking, there are four kinds of substances that Song people think can affect sex: one is willow, eggplant, heather and other plants related to men; Second, male animals such as cocks and ducks; Third, knives, axes, bowstrings and other special instruments for men; The fourth is realgar. In the view of Song people, realgar and orpiment correspond to male and female sex respectively. "If you want a man, you should put it in realgar and half-length clothes; If you want a woman, bring orpiment. "

In addition, in the Song Dynasty, there was a concept of "seeing a well and giving birth to a man", that is, a woman wearing her husband's clothes and watching a movie around the well in the morning could give birth to a man. For example, "Chen Chengzhe gave birth to ten women, and his wife walked around the well three times. I wish women are yin, men are yang, many women and many men are lucky. If he locks the well for three days, he can't draw, and he will give birth to a boy. "

Different from the above-mentioned way of finding children, there are greetings in the ceremony of finding people according to the well, which is closer to witchcraft belief. However, in the doctor's opinion, well water is really helpful for boys, so in many medical prescriptions that interfere with gender, it is indicated that "well water is used to spend water".

Another intervention after pregnancy is to influence the sex of the fetus by adjusting the diet. For example, in the third month of pregnancy, doctors in the Song Dynasty advised pregnant women to take male chicken soup for food supplement. The earlier compound prescription for giving birth to boys was "Danshen Yuan", which was mainly used for nourishing liver and blood. It was used by pregnant women in the early stage of pregnancy in the Tang Dynasty to "foster a fetus and turn a woman into a man", and Song people continued to use it.

After the Song Dynasty, the methods of gender intervention were basically for children, which shows how strong the fertility desire was at that time.

However, these methods have little scientific basis. Through modern science, we know that the sex of the fetus has been decided at the moment when sperm and eggs combine, and the so-called acquired intervention is actually impossible. As for the methods of observing men and women, there is a high probability that they are accurate. To say that they are 100% accurate, even the most advanced B-ultrasound may not be able to do it. Only after the baby is born can we really know.

Fortunately, we are not bound by such an environment. For most families now, it is the same to have boys and girls, which is the heart disease of parents. Although it is undeniable that the bad custom of seeking children is still circulating in some areas, at least in the big environment, we have got rid of this idea. As for the method of judging men and women mentioned in the article, it is better to leave it to prospective parents for entertainment!