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Some rural areas of China have an old saying: "Thirty-six do not mention, seventy-three do not say, eighty-four do not say, a hundred years to be." What does this mean? The "" in this sentence, in the end, to what?"

1, life is the most difficult to predict is their own life

A township, a custom, a hundred miles of different winds, ten miles of different customs, this argument, can only be said that in our country is a part of the rural areas, not all places have this argument. Some places will have some other age taboos. For example, my hometown southwest of Hunan area, almost do not hear this argument.

There is another saying in the countryside, "Seventy-three, eighty-four, uninvited". The saying in my hometown is very interesting, it is usually the old man who laughs at himself and says, "Seventy-three, eighty-four, do not die sorry," meaning that he is a little too old to live, dragging down his children, and is embarrassed to be alive.

Elderly children, of course, can not say this, that is disobedient, unfilial. This is to do children's minimum moral integrity and the principle of being a human being. Other dare not say so, older than you, you have to respect, smack people old, they will be old. Besides, there is a saying: "people see the white head anger, I see the white head joy, how many young people died, less than the white head death."

Everyone in the world has a back of the head, their own back of the head, only touch invisible. A person can live to how old, who can not say big words, who said also does not count. "If I tell you to leave at three o'clock, I will never keep you until five o'clock." The world's big words, what can be said, only how long they can live, it is difficult to say, out of the mouth, do not believe.

Last year, one of my former coworkers, that day, he was laughing and talking to me about the good life after his retirement. But in the evening, he ate dinner with his siblings, and after dinner, his siblings were playing cards, and he was lying in a fire barrel watching TV. He fell asleep, snoring like a baby, but then there was no sound, and when his siblings went home and came to say goodbye to him, he never woke up again. He was fifty-nine years old that year, one year away from retirement. None of the plans he and I had talked about for his retirement ever came to fruition.

I hometown of the hundred years old do not need, as the saying goes, "the mountain also has a thousand years of trees, the world is difficult to meet a hundred years old people". Generally speaking, when a person is 100 years old, not only do not take, but also make a fuss to celebrate life. Local out of the centenarian, four miles and eight villages to congratulate. According to the local county records, the old times, the county elders ninety years old, the government to send a gift to congratulate the birthday, the local old man turned one hundred years old, the government to send a plaque to congratulate the birthday. My hometown did not have this "centennial to" custom in ancient times. Today, some grassroots still inherited this tradition of respect for the elderly.

2, the age of the "barrier" and "can" can be "muddle through"

The proverb ".... The "not to mention thirty-six, seventy-three not to say, eighty-four not to say, a hundred years old to be." People believe that thirty-six, seventy-three, eighty-four, one hundred years old is a person's life to overcome the "barrier", also known as "Kan", to these ages, called the barrier, or over the Kan.

How does a person get over this hurdle? In the old days, people thought that a better way to get past the "barrier" or "hurdle" was to "muddle through". Who should be fooled? In the olden days, it was natural to deceive God. When you reach the age of passing the hurdle, you can't tell anyone, and if someone else knows your real age, God doesn't know your real age.

For example, if a person is thirty-six years old, and people are saying that it is thirty-four, God thinks that the person is not yet at the age of passing. If people say that the person is thirty-seven, the god thinks that the person has already passed the thirty-six year mark. Therefore, in the countryside, a kind of "don't mention", "don't say", "don't tell", "to", can be formed. "The first thing I'd like to do is to get a little bit more information about what I'm talking about.

My hometown in the countryside has a hiatus: "Lime patties to God - coaxing". In the old days, some poor families in the countryside, neither field nor forest, rely on people to work long or short jobs to support their families. At that time, most of the long and short-term laborers in the countryside were paid in grain, and most of them were paid in indica rice. Because there is no hybrid rice, the yield of indica rice is twice as high as the yield of glutinous rice, and the price of glutinous rice is naturally higher than that of indica rice. When you want to pay for the work, for the sake of the family's stomach, you would rather have a large number of indica rice than a small number of glutinous rice.

In those days, even the straw of glutinous rice was worth more than the straw of indica rice. At that time, there were only three kinds of shoes in the countryside, cloth shoes, straw shoes and wooden clogs, wearing cloth shoes at home, wearing straw shoes when going out, and wearing wooden clogs when it rained and snowed. This is still cold weather when this, the weather a little warmer, the poor more "barefoot", and some even "men and women under the cut wearing a pair of pants, winter and summer barefoot" (Ming Dynasty Zhejiang Bao Ruji "South of the Middle Chronicle," for his diary in Hunan Suining County, when the magistrate). To barefoot is to go barefoot. Glutinous rice straw hit the straw shoes, both soft, and durable, people regard the straw of glutinous rice as a treasure.

Poor people on New Year's Eve, no glutinous rice patties, the days go on, but no indica rice to fill the stomach, the days can not go on. However, in the old days, there is a saying in the countryside, "there is also a New Year's Eve", New Year's Eve, there is also to pass, there is no also have to pass. Poor families did not have glutinous rice, so naturally they could not make mochi, but according to tradition, they had to honor their ancestors and the gods at New Year's. Some poor families had no choice but to make mochi. Some poor families had no choice but to use lime to make mochi to honor the gods. People think this is obviously "fake" to "coax".

In fact, in the old days, the poor people were forced to live, "fake" "coaxing" things, not just patties, and even some of the fish also fake. For example, when the three animals in the head of the pigs, cattle and sheep are carved wood, can be used repeatedly. At New Year's Eve, fish is always on the table, and it is called "Yearly Fish" (Yu). Poor people in rural areas do not have fish, you can only use wood carved into a fish model instead of fish, used to sacrifice ancestors to God.

So it seems, "fake" "coaxing" thing, not only in the ancestor worship God, but also reflected in the age of "over". Ancestor worship "fake" "coaxing", because the family is poor, can not take things, and the age of the hurdle "fake" to "coaxing ", it is not a question of whether the family is rich or not, belonging to a general public psychology in the agricultural era.

3, age "barrier" and "kan" taboos and history and historical figures

In the countryside, age "barrier" and "kan" taboo

In the countryside, age "barrier" and "kan" taboos.

Let's start with my hometown customs. My hometown in the years also have local taboos, taboo age years for seven and nine, men especially taboo nine, there are also men "nine". For example, forty-nine years old, to say fifty years old. Some rural areas have bright nine and dark nine said, in my hometown mention bright nine more, dark nine very few people say.

These words, in fact, have been widely circulated, and have a long history, such as the Qing Dynasty Dong Han in the "Sangang Knowledge" (also known as "pure township superfluous strokes"), there are words:

"The ancients were nine, cloud is the year will be disaster."

Thirty-three years old

Hometown of the old county and the surrounding countryside taboos thirty-three years old, people to thirty-three years old, can only say thirty-two years old, or thirty-four years old, but also a kind of age taboos in the "do not mention". But this kind of statement, in the county will not be unified, there are places in the county is not taboo thirty-three years old. This custom is not an old tradition, the formation of time is not long.

During the war, our old county twice, the first time after the army into Sichuan after the war, the county was captured by bandits, the second time after the purge of a large number of bandit gangs, of which the bandit leader and the backbone of the members of thirty-three people. After trial, was. Therefore, the old county seat and the surrounding countryside taboo number thirty-three. When people mention thirty-three, it is tantamount to swearing harsh words.

This batch of people who were put in to the larger places, it is not a big deal, and it will not affect other places. However, in the county, at that time are some infamous characters, fame is really not small, its end is very bad, naturally let the local people taboo. This taboo is related to history.

Thirty-six years old

and my hometown is the same as the land of ancient Chu, the history of Hubei Changyang area, which was once the same as the province of Hubei and Guangdong, taboos mentioning thirty-six years old. When a person reaches his thirty-sixth birthday, he can't say thirty-six, but rather thirty-five, or thirty-seven. The local people believe that people to thirty-six years old is a "big Jieba" (local dialect, meaning danger, equivalent to some places say "kan").

This is the only way to say it, because Zhou Yu died at the age of thirty-six. Hubei is the front line of Liu Bei's battle with Sun Quan, and it is not at all surprising that the locals have this taboo. It seems that this thirty-six year old taboo in Changyang is directly related to the ancient historical figures.

There are other places where thirty-six taboos, not to mention thirty-six years old, the statement has dark nine said, that is, thirty-six for a multiple of nine. There are also some famous historical figures such as Zhou Yu who died at the age of thirty-six on the road. There is also a place for both. It seems that Zhou Yu's life expectancy is too short, and the impact on the later is still very far-reaching.

Think, even Zhou Yu and other such martial arts characters, are difficult to thirty-six years of age of this hurdle, the ordinary people have to be more careful, to thirty-six years of age, it is also taboo to mention this number, intentionally "not mentioned" up.

Seventy-three and eighty-four

Seventy-three and eighty-four are considered to be a hurdle for the elderly, and are known as "the year of loss". This is also due to the fact that two famous figures in history, Confucius died at the age of seventy-three and Mencius died at the age of eighty-four. The people of China especially worshiped the ancient Confucius and Mencius, so most of the people regarded this number as a taboo, and people thought that it was difficult for both of them to pass this barrier, not to mention the general people. Therefore, people regarded seventy-three and eighty-four years old as the old man's two difficult passes, break through the seventy-three years old, you can live to eighty-four years old, eighty-four years old, this difficult pass, the long life of a hundred years old. This is also the good wish of the people.

It is also because of this that it is believed that when one reaches the age of seventy-three and when one reaches the age of eighty-four, one has to find a way to avoid it, and that at the age of seventy-three one can only say seventy-two or seventy-four, and at the age of eighty-four one can only say eighty-three or eighty-five.

This kind of statement, in the old days, was mainly popular in the Central Plains. Until now, some rural areas in the Central Plains, still have such a statement.

Forty-five years old

According to Li Jiarui, "Beiping Customs - Language", quoted in the words of the "Idle Chronicle":

"Yan people taboo forty-five years old, people or ask, do not say, 'last year, forty-four years old', said 'next year, forty-six years old'. Forty-six years old', I do not know what to call it."

That is to say, the ancient Yan people, there is taboo to say forty-five-year-old custom, when a person is forty-five years old, if someone asks his age, he is not said last year forty-four years old, said this year forty-six years old, to avoid saying "this year forty-five years old". What is the reason for this? The Record of Idleness cannot tell the reason. And in the "Bianliang lock record" is found in the answer, the book records:

"Biandi rumor: old Bao Zheng was ordered to Chenzhou grain, midway encountered a thief, disguise forget eight (Note: in the lower nine streams of the feet of the turtle), escaped from the danger and was spared. At that time, he was forty-five years old, and recognized that forty-five years of this year must be bad luck, and thus avoided saying forty-five years old, and more than forty-four years old or forty-six years old to avoid it".

From this passage, we can see that the original people in these places "do not mention" forty-five years old, and historical figures.

4, the age of the "barrier" and "kan" taboos of other sayings

The age of the "barrier" and "kan" taboos of other sayings

For the age of the "barrier" and

Forty-one years old

Shandong area of the man taboo forty-one years old, if just forty-one years old, if others ask their age, they are very taboo to say they are forty-one years old. The reason for this is because, here, there are 41 nuisance wife's saying. In the old days, the loss of his wife in middle age is one of the three tragic things in life, who is also afraid of being involved in such a thing. Therefore, when others ask their age, generally to a year or more say a year.

Sixty-six years old and male thirty, female forty

Some rural areas have a saying: "age sixty-six, to eat meat." It is said that people to sixty-six is a barrier, the Northeast around the old man's sixty-sixth birthday, children to pack sixty-six small meat dumplings to the old man to eat, the old man ate once to herald the passage, the future of health and longevity. Some rural areas in the Yellow River basin, to the old man's birthday, married daughter to buy a piece of meat for the old man. After the old man ate the meat, he would not find the old man to eat meat. This may be because at that time the rural life is poor, the daughters of the old man's birthday, filial piety a piece of meat, so that the old man to improve their lives.

There are other places that say "men are not three, women are not four", which means that men can't celebrate their birthdays at the age of thirty, and women can't celebrate their birthdays at the age of forty. This may have something to do with the fact that places don't advocate banquets for young and middle-aged people to celebrate their birthdays.

These three say, just taboo over, no "do not mention" said, the number of years can still speak.

One hundred years old

Speaking of which, it should also say why the hundred years old to be.

Hundred years old, that is to say, the old man turned 100 years old when the number of years can not say "hundred years old", to say ninety-nine years old, or one hundred and one years old. The reason for this is that most places have language taboos. For example, some rural villages are generally accustomed to the elderly end of life called "100 years old", "100 years after", "100 years", "100 years", "100 years after the event ", "after a hundred years".

"Hundred years old" and "a hundred years" said, is some children in order to broaden the heart of the elderly, a kind of respect for the elderly and euphemisms. For example, when parents grow old, they usually like to nag their children about something. They themselves can say, "I die after how to how", but the son can not answer, "you die after the certainty of doing" and so on, but to say "you 100 years old after the certainty of doing! Instead, the son should say something like, "I will do it when you are a hundred years old," or "I will do it when you are a hundred years old," or "I will do it when you are a hundred years old. The meaning of these words is that we hope that our parents will live a long life and live to be a hundred years old, and of course, we are also forgiving our parents' heart.

The people of the world can live to a hundred years of age is only a very small number of people, so there is a previously quoted proverb "there are thousands of years of trees in the mountains, the world is difficult to meet a hundred years old people", also because of this, the "centenarian" said, often become a place where the old man is synonymous with life. The term "100 years old" often becomes synonymous with the end of life of the old people in some places. And really to the old man one hundred years old, said the old man one hundred years old, it seems very unlucky, naturally can not say. This is the real reason why people in rural areas say "100 years old to".

There are also some places on the "hundred years old to", there are some other sayings, for example, Shandong Tai'an area of the countryside, said the old man to a hundred years of age of the whole old man is a donkey, and Shandong Liaocheng Linqing area of the countryside, said a hundred years of age of the whole old man is an old hedgehog. These sayings have other folklore meanings.

In short, the old rural saying "thirty-six not to mention, seventy-three not to say, eighty-four not to say, a hundred years old to be" is a kind of age taboos, and there are different age taboos around. In general, belongs to the old time people's a statement, showing the rural tend to avoid harm to the psychology, as well as people's desire to live a long and healthy life.

The above is related to the number of snake people taboo content, is about age to share. After reading the lucky numbers and colors of Snake, I hope this is helpful!