There are a lot of common phrases in life, why is it said that "the toilet, the kitchen"?

Previously, I have read some of the "Zhou Yi" or "Qing Nang Jing" and other books, ancient people believe in yin and yang feng shui, solid Chinese traditional courtyard geomancy positioning as well as architectural pattern are in accordance with the "Zhou Yi" in the astronomical and geographic, and geomancy is to build a house of a special learning.

Feng Shui

Traditional courtyard houses are very common in China, and are oriented so that they sit in the north and face south. Toilet is the source of natural fertilizer, it should be fertilizer flow outside the field of the saying, we use feng shui to carry on the description, the north is the water position, the east is the wood position, the five elements are born together, water begets wood, water is the root of everything, wood is the source of all things. So the toilet is built in the north east, it is in accordance with the ancient forefathers and foremothers left behind Feng Shui, while complying with the geography of the northern hemisphere of the climate and the environment of common sense.

The courtyard

Kitchen

East is wood, south is fire, the five elements, wood begets fire. In the Spring and Autumn Annals, there is: the five elements of the followers, each as their order, the five elements of the official, each to its ability. Therefore, wood in the east and the main spring gas, fire in the south and the main summer gas, gold in the west and the main fall gas, water in the north and the main winter gas. Therefore, the wood main birth and gold main kill, fire main heat and water main cold, make people must be in its order, the officer must be in its ability, the number of days also. So the main kitchen fire, then built in the south east a little more in line with the feng shui theory of the ancestors.

According to the orientation of the courtyard, from the courtyard to the courtyard, the courtyard door in the south, from the south to the north direction is called "in"; from the courtyard to the courtyard, from the north to the south direction is called "out". Going to the north is called "up" and going to the south is called "down". The toilet is in the east of the north and the kitchen is in the east of the south, so we call it going up to the toilet and down to the kitchen.

Because China has been a great agricultural country since ancient times, it values toilets that are related to agricultural production, so the toilets are located in a location where the wind is favorable and the water is favorable, so the toilets are called "upper toilets". The kitchen, on the other hand, is usually frequented by lower servants and other people, and will have a lower status, so it is called the lower kitchen.

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