What is the real meaning of "seven do not go out and eight do not return home"?

The "seven things not to go out" means that before you go out, you have to do seven things for your family: firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea. "Eight do not return" means that before going home to check whether they have done eight things: filial piety, brotherly love, loyalty, faith, etiquette, righteousness, integrity, shame. As the old saying goes, "If you don't go out on the seventh day, you don't go home on the eighth day", we all think it means that you don't go out on the seventh day of the month and you don't go home on the eighth day of the month. Some people even count the seventeenth, eighteenth, twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth.

Seven out, talking about home. Managing the household, so that your family has vitality, family health, happiness. Eight does not return, on the other hand, is the code of conduct, but also the fundamental family way. China's 5,000 years of traditional culture is profound, every old saying passed down has its profound content, and look at the meaning of the ambiguity, pit us how many years.