It is popular to build houses by filling holes in rural areas. Why do some old farmers disagree?

In recent years, when farmers have money, they want to build houses and buy their own houses. However, it is not so easy to build a house now that the rural areas implement the homestead management policy of "one household, one house". Even if some families marry their children, the village can't provide so many homesteads for them to build houses. No way, they had to build a house with the pit pond in the village first, and there was no way. It can't be described as "popular", but that's the truth.

In fact, there has always been an old saying that "building on a bridge with pits and ponds will lead to casualties", that is to say, building on a foundation filled with pits and ponds will lead to family casualties, which is also summarized from the life practice of several generations. Everyone who has experienced it knows this truth. Because the house is unstable and the foundation is very important, the foundation should be compacted before building in rural areas, and then the wall should be dug and poured, and the foundation should be strengthened first.

There are many pits and ponds in the countryside. In 1970s and 1980s, people used them to store water or separate several surnames in the village. They can be used to wash clothes and raise fish. Now that these pits and ponds have basically dried up, farmers who urgently need to build houses on the homestead will fill them up with mud and build houses on them with the consent of the village Committee. However, the foundation of these pits and ponds is not firm. Once it rains, the ground will sink and cannot support the weight of the house at all.

To sum up, it is not advisable to fill pits and ponds to build houses in rural areas. Although the land for building houses has been temporarily obtained, the ground of these pits and ponds is very dense, and it is easy to sink after the rain, and the walls will crack or tilt, which will easily collapse, causing injuries to residents. So, what the old man said is very reasonable.