Why do people say I shouldn't have seen it when I have a needle eye? ... what's the story?

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Analysis of Folk Tradition:

It is true that what is said upstairs is a curse, but it has little to do with the origin of Guangdong.

Its statement comes from ancient witchcraft or classical Chinese saying: Yan Sheng. That is to say, some time ago, there was a popular "voodoo doll"-the witchcraft of writing the year, birthday and surname of the cursed person on wooden (paper, grass) couples, and then stabbing each part of them with a needle to curse the sick part of the person.

Because it's obscene to peek at a woman's toilet and take a bath, verbally cursing the peeper should be better than cursing the eye with a needle. Over time, it turns out that the eye of a needle is born because it shouldn't be seen. This sentence is popular in Cantonese-speaking areas of Guangdong and Guangxi. First, these places still retain the ancient folk customs of the past to a great extent (for example, beating villains-a kind of witchcraft that is better than Yan), and the worship of ghosts and gods in this place is richer than that in the north, so people believe this statement; Second, due to the proximity to Hong Kong and Macao and the influence of its film and television programs, at least a lot of things that were swept away by the four modernizations during the Cultural Revolution were proved by the cultural exchanges between the two places after the opening up.