What is the meaning of the old saying that "women are afraid of being born at noon and men are afraid of being born at night"?

With the development of science and technology and the progress of the times, people believe in science more than the ancient sayings. Chinese culture has been handed down to this day, laying a solid foundation for us to build cultural confidence, but we should also look at it from a scientific perspective, and abandon those bad habits that go against the natural order of things. For some sayings, they also reflect the culture of thought.

Some sayings seem ordinary, but read with deep meaning, such as "family scandal can not be publicized, rumors do not believe" "clouds eat fire rain, fire eat clouds clear sky"; some sayings, if used properly, in the conversation will make the atmosphere become active, such as "The king's wife sells her melon and boasts about herself"------ These sayings are the spiritual wealth accumulated by the ancient hard-working people, reflecting the laws of all things and the attitude of people, and have been handed down by the people till now.

However, some of these sayings now seem to be relative to some of the feudal ideas put in them, such as "women are afraid of being born at noon, men are afraid of being born at night", whether or not it is true has yet to be confirmed.

Ancient thought

Ancient people's biggest feature is the feudal curing, their patriarchal thinking is very far-reaching influence on our Chinese nation. Men always had a higher status than women in the family, and they believed that men were the only dependents in the family and had to earn money to support the family, and it was only natural for women to serve their husbands and families at home, and this kind of thinking still exists in many remote rural areas until today.

If you don't have a boy among your children, you will be laughed at by others. In their view, a boy is the continuation of the family, and it is extremely important for them to raise a child to protect themselves from old age.

Women's foot-binding is also a bad idea. It is said that foot-binding was done to please men, and that they wanted to restrict women's movement in this way, hence the term "three-inch golden lotus". This kind of behavior is the oppression of women, in fact, it is also discrimination against women, patriarchal thinking can also be reflected.

Male and female birth time is important

"Women are afraid of the afternoon birth, men are afraid of the son of the night," this proverb in the end how to interpret? In fact, it also fully embodies the feudal thinking of the ancient people. From the literal meaning of the proverb, I think we can guess a one or two. It means that girls are afraid of being born at noon, while boys are afraid of being born at night. So is there any truth to the saying?

While the noon and the hour is the ancient unit of measurement of time, the ancient people's unique method of timekeeping is very different from the modern day, they will be a day and night divided into 12 hours, an hour is equivalent to the current two hours. They were named "Zi, ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Huxu, Ohio", that is, people said the "Earth's branches".

So, according to the ancient algorithm, the proverbial "noon" is eleven o'clock in the morning to one o'clock in the afternoon, this time is the sun's most powerful time, and the "Zi Shi" refers to eleven o'clock in the evening to one o'clock in the morning, this time is the best time for people to rest. This is the best time for people to rest, and everything is in a quieter state.

There's not much to say about the timing of a baby's birth these days, except that we can be caught off-guard and feel exhausted by the idea of a child being born in the middle of the night.

The way of yin and yang

Traditional Chinese culture has gone through thousands of years, and each period of time reflects the unique culture of that period, and has formed its own cultural system. In the ancient times, "all things in heaven and earth" studied the things between heaven and earth, and did not study other things.

The development of Chinese culture in the later period can be said to have reached a climax, such as Confucius, Mozi, Xunzi, they all have their own system, a school of its own, with a cognition and ideas that are already different from those of ordinary people. And the idea of yin and yang has been formed in this period.

The traditional Chinese culture of "yin and yang" in the eyes of the ancients is particularly important. In ancient times, China believed that the transformation of yin and yang represented the objective law of the existence of things themselves. The Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine has a clear definition of yin and yang: yin and yang in heaven and earth, all things, change, life and death, God, so to speak, is everywhere.

Seeing that yin and yang are reflected in the beginning and end of everything and in the laws of nature. In Xunzi's book, there is also the phrase "yin and yang are connected to change", which reflects the fact that yin and yang are in everything, and any change exists in the way of yin and yang.

The ancients believed that a girl born at noon, the heaviest time of the day for Yang energy, might be in conflict with the Yin energy in her body. A baby's body is already weak, so if the yin and yang qi in the body are not in harmony, it will undoubtedly add to the problem and may add to the burden of an already weak baby, resulting in weakness and illness. Similarly, for a boy, born at the time of the day when the yin qi is heaviest, a similar situation will occur, where the yin and yang are not harmonized, making the body even weaker. This is what the ancients said about the way of yin and yang for men and women.

There are also people who believe that the girl born at noon, the character belongs to the lively, active, compared to the birth of the other hours in the relatively more obvious, this character for the girls is not very good, they believe that the girls should be quiet, shy; and in the early hours of the boy, on the contrary, the character belongs to the more gentle, quiet, this character for the boys is also bad, they They believe that men are the backbone of the family and should be strong and able to be the head of the family.

These statements are actually an acceptance of the idea of yin and yang, but they do not prove it scientifically. Nowadays, technology is relatively more advanced, and newborns do not fall ill just because of the disharmony of yin and yang in their bodies.

And people's character is even more needless to say, genetic inheritance and acquired formation is its main reason, naturally will not say that because of the time of birth and lead to personality different from others. Therefore, as human beings in the new era, we should use the science around us and prove it with scientific theories.

The thinking of the ancients is beyond the reach of our descendants, they are with thousands of years of accumulated life experience, the formation of a unique culture, in these cultures, some show wisdom, some show everything. In short, they all represent the ancient people's longing for a better life.

"Women are afraid of being born at noon, men are afraid of being born at night" is a common saying, but when read carefully, it shows the idea of yin and yang. But for people nowadays, there is no special saying, the time of birth of the baby can also be said to be a natural formation, in when the birth will not have any effect.

At the same time, we need to know that the inheritance and development of traditional Chinese culture is for is committed to building a strong cultural power for us is essential, but we should be viewed with a scientific perspective, take the essence, discard the dregs.