There are three major things that a person must do in his life.
The first is to start a family, men get married when they are older and women get married when they are older; the second is to own a house of their own; the third is to be filial and support their parents.
If you cannot understand these three things, you will definitely be laughed at by the world.
Whether it is in ancient times or today, building a house is a node in life worth writing down in a notebook.
In ancient times, people mostly repaired their houses by themselves, but now they mostly buy commercial houses directly in the city.
It is not difficult to find that the two have many similarities. The orientation of the house is basically north to south, because we are in the northern hemisphere, and this orientation is more conducive to lighting in the room.
In the previous article, we already know that "there are three images in the house, and the God of Wealth himself will jump on the kang". These "three images" refer to "light, water, and mountains."
When the ancients built their houses, they would always place them near mountains and rivers, and allow the houses to have sufficient lighting.
Now when we buy a house in the city, although we can’t decide how to build it, we put a tank of Feng Shui fish in the house and hang calligraphy and paintings in the living room and study room, which replaces water and mountains.
As for the lighting issue, it depends on your house type. The price of a house with good lighting will be higher.
In fact, the life experience of the ancients tells us that there are many things worth noting in the Feng Shui of building houses.
For example, this saying goes: "The sun does not shine on the roots, and the mouth does not swallow the sun."
This sentence is only eight short words, but it covers a lot of Feng Shui knowledge.
Among them, exposing roots and swallowing yang are the key. To understand why the ancients passed this sentence down from generation to generation, we must have an in-depth understanding of their specific living era and environment.
Because the Chinese characters used by the ancients were very concise, everyone will have a deep understanding of it if they read classical Chinese.
In fact, the main reason is that paper is hard to come by. The ancients mostly recorded things on bamboo slips, and the production of bamboo slips is very cumbersome and the price is naturally very expensive. Just like sending a telegram, every word must be carefully considered.
Let’s first look at “shagen”. Shai is easy to understand, it means literally.
When the weather is fine, we will ask our friends to go out to bask in the sun. We should pay attention to the "root" here, which refers to the root of the wall.
So the meaning of the first half of the sentence is: when building a house, the sun must not be allowed to reach the roots of the interior walls. In other words, the sun must not be allowed to shine through the windows and reach the roots of the walls inside the house.
Then the question is, isn’t the more lighting the better? In fact, this is not the case. When we go out to bask in the sun occasionally, it not only refreshes us, but also allows ultraviolet rays to help kill bacteria.
But if you are exposed to strong sunlight for a long time, it will definitely be unbearable.
When building a house, the requirements for lighting are the same. It is necessary to ensure that there is light in the house, but not all of it is exposed to the sun. This is particular.
It is easy to understand using the ancient Feng Shui theory to explain it.
In Feng Shui, yin and yang must be balanced to make the owner of the house healthy physically and mentally and everything goes smoothly.
If the whole house is exposed to the sun, naturally the yang energy completely suppresses the yin energy, which will cause an imbalance.
There is another point that we cannot ignore. The ancients had a simple place for worship: the ancestral hall.
If the Yang Qi is too strong, it is a sign of disrespect for the deceased ancestors.
Let’s look at “swallowing Yang”, which refers to swallowing sunlight.
The "mouth" refers to the doorway. When building a house, there are also restrictions on the size of the doorway that can admit sunlight.
As mentioned above, in the ancestral halls of the ancients, the memorial tablets of the ancestors were facing the door, and the scope of sunlight must be controlled.
As far as the main entrance is concerned, the main room (living room) is a place for receiving guests. The host and the guests have to sit together and discuss things in detail. At this time, the sun is shining directly on the two of them. , that would be a very uncomfortable experience.
Not only is it difficult to open your eyes, it also disturbs the mind.
So the height of the door cannot be set so that the sun can shine in before you go out. This is a fixed standard.
Therefore, the saying "the sun does not shine on the roots, the mouth does not swallow the sun" is still a belief of the ancients in Feng Shui, and it is also an experience accumulated in life.
Because there were no high-rise buildings in the era when the ancients lived, most of the construction of houses was based on their own wishes.
But now that urbanization is highly developed, developers decide how to build communities, and buyers can only passively accept them.
Coupled with the variety of decoration styles, the Feng Shui-related precautions mentioned in this proverb are no longer applicable and have been basically forgotten.
It is actually very easy to achieve "the sun does not let the roots shine". When decorating, just match the windows and curtains. For example, floor-to-ceiling windows are not only beautiful, but also very practical.
As for "talking without swallowing Yang", there is no need to pay attention to it. The door and threshold are all done in one place.
There is no problem in studying the proverbs left by the ancients as a kind of traditional culture. We can absorb some essence and use them as a crystallization of wisdom to serve our lives.
More of them are no longer applicable to the current living conditions, but we can use them to understand the lifestyle and customs of the ancients, which has a positive effect on studying the historical and cultural process.
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