"Women are afraid of being born at noon, and it is difficult to come in the middle of the night." What is the basis of this proverb handed down from the ancients?

Before natural science entered China society on a large scale, the theory created by Taoists, Yin and Yang experts and astrologers was "science". The ancients believed in fate and thought that a person's fortune-telling was related to "birth", and what kind of fate he was born with could not be changed.

Later, although these ideas were diluted by new ideas, fewer and fewer people believed in this old saying, but every child is a treasure. In modern society, for example, a considerable number of expectant mothers have caesarean sections in advance to welcome their babies.

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When is the life of a child born better? In order to make future generations take fewer detours, the ancestors summed up an experience: "Women are afraid of noon, men are afraid of midnight"!

What does this sentence mean? Let's analyze it now. Is there any basis?

According to heavenly stems and earthly branches's classification, the "noon" referred to by the ancients is actually 3 noon, which is equivalent to 1 1 morning, and 23: 00 pm to midnight 1 morning. The meaning of this sentence is obvious. Girls are forbidden to be born at noon, and boys had better not be born at midnight. Such taboos are really difficult for many modern people to understand, and I really want to know the reasons.

In fact, this proverb is full of "scientific basis" in the eyes of the ancients. The most influential "science" in ancient China, as mentioned above, is the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements. This theory now looks profound and mysterious. In short, this simple materialistic view holds that the world is constantly twinning, developing and changing under the influence of Yin and Yang, and everything is opposite to Yin and Yang.

Everything consists of five elements: gold, wood, water, fire and earth. There is a relationship between the five elements, and life and gram are two contradictory aspects, that is, yin and yang. North and south, male and female, heat and cool are divided into yin and yang, male is yang and female is yin. At noon in the "Twelve Earthly Branches", the yang is full, and at noon, the yin is full. "Harmony of Yin and Yang" is the highest principle of the theory of Yin and Yang. "Collision of Yin and Yang" will cause great trouble, ranging from a troubled and weak child to a mediocre life when he grows up, to a dead mother and daughter.

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Seeing this, you must feel a strong superstition and have your own judgment. Indeed, in today's prosperous science, there is no set of data to prove that girls born at noon and boys born in the early hours of the morning will have more fate than other children. It is also untenable to speculate on the fate of a child's life by the time of his birth. Otherwise, the great men in history will not be born at the same time.

However, we don't need to look at the ideas of the ancients with a "critical" eye. Through this proverb, we seem to see the harm of pregnant women in ancient times. Due to the backwardness of medical means and equipment, the lives of pregnant women and babies can not be guaranteed, and families have to make a choice on the issue of "keeping the big or keeping the small". Therefore, it is normal for people to blame the high maternal mortality rate on supernatural mysterious forces.

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Compared with the normal phenomenon of the ancients, some people in society deliberately pursue "dragon baby", "tiger baby" and "Millennium baby", which is really abnormal. Although the medical level is developed today, it is irresponsible to interfere too much with the birth time of children.