Rural elderly people often say: "open river fish, lay eggs chicken, back to sleep, the second house wife" what does it mean?

In many places in the countryside, we can still see the shadow of tradition, the old generation in rural areas often say the proverb is the ancient people left behind. The proverb is one of China's traditional folk culture, its formation is not overnight, but the ancient people's long-term life practice summarized, and then passed on from generation to generation to today.

The folk people's love for sayings, needless to say, from their daily use of sayings can be seen, these sayings close to life, all-encompassing, able to complete the expression of the people's voices, especially in the rural areas of the older generation of the people, the sayings of the people convinced. As the saying goes, the folk have four great fragrances: "open river fish, egg-laying chickens, back to sleep, two wives", in addition to eating is sleeping, so what is the meaning of this saying? What is the meaning of this phrase?

What is the open river fish? Kaijiang fish is unique to the Northeast, every year in the spring, the Northeast region, ice and snow melt, spring flowers, Ussuri River and Songhua River ice also began to melt, melting open a lot of ice flowing down the river, which is Kaijiang. There is a kind of fish that only appears at this time of the year, so it is called the Kaijiang fish.

This fish will only appear for a short period of about half a month, and the flavor and its delicious, rare and expensive, can not be found, so the open river fish as people say, "heavenly dragon meat, underground donkey meat," the same, can eat to show that it is very good luck. "Kaijiang fish" because of its delicious flavor loved by the people, the market price is not expensive, Kaijiang fish refers to the first batch of fish caught after the beginning of spring, after a winter of rest and recuperation, not only to raise the fat and strong, but also the taste is also very good.

In the former rural winter food is more scarce, in the open river during the open river can eat the open river fish, in addition to satisfying the appetite, but also a kind of satisfaction of life. In folklore, it is even said that if you taste a mouthful of Kailiang fish, even the gods don't want to be a god, so you can see how delicious it is.

What is an egg-laying chicken? This is very good to understand, the so-called with eggs chicken is the stomach there is a just molded eggs, there is not fully grown, not the output of the hen, this kind of eggs in the hen's stomach is still relatively small, showing a golden yellow state. In the countryside is generally believed to be the best quality of such hen meat, especially fresh flavor, nutrition, generally speaking, there is not what guests to the door or major events, farmers are not willing to kill. Therefore, in the countryside, there is also the "poor not sell the egg chicken" saying, which also explains the preciousness of the egg chicken.

As for the "cage sleep". In the past, those who could sleep in the cage are basically lazy people, or those who are rich and idle rich family, why? Hardworking people have long been in the field plow work to go, where farmers can still find sleep "sleep". At that time there is no pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural production depends on manpower plowing, weeding, loosening the soil and other agricultural activities, so much farm work in which waiting, that diligent people would like to sleep "back to sleep"? Therefore, in those days, for farmers, if you can occasionally take a nap, that is really a kind of enjoyment, so to sleep a sleep is the previous many farmers aspire to, dream. Modern people have a thousand gold can't buy back to sleep said, because it can assist insomnia patients, goodbye to the trouble of insomnia, there are people called "beauty sleep".

In ancient times, the status of women was not too high, they can only depend on men to survive, can not easily show their faces. The so-called second wife, more popular in ancient times, men can be three wives and four concubines in ancient times, the second wife of course, than the main house incense, there is a saying that "family flowers are not more than the fragrance of wildflowers," said this is the truth, the man is always focusing on the outside world, for the side of the people on the contrary is very disgusted, the ancients are precisely the phenomenon is not strange, will be this kind of The saying.

Thus, we can see that folklore proverbs, cohesion of folk wisdom, with the most common words, expressed the profound truth. Although the times are different, they are also applicable today. Cultivate resources, do not exhaust the fishery, do not kill the chicken to get eggs, the same is our development guidelines. Work hard, strive for progress, and create a better life is also our proper attitude towards life. The same is true for the traditional virtue of correcting our behavior.