Why is it so difficult for businessmen to meet? Du Fu and Wei Ba were good friends who had not seen each other for many years. One day, they reunited unexpectedly. The poet saw each other's children growing up and their hair turning gray. Apart from being happy, he also lamented the passage of time. After experiencing the vicissitudes of life, he recited the poem "If we don't meet each other in life, we will move like participating in business". Everyone may know the meaning of this poem, which means that life is like the ginseng star and the business star with rare opportunities to meet. We can easily understand that meeting each other is rare in life, as evidenced by Li Houzhu's saying "It's easy to say goodbye but hard to see each other". However, this is somewhat confusing for Shenxing and Shangxing. Why is it difficult for Shenxing and Shangxing to meet? Woolen cloth? From an astronomical point of view, Rigel and Shang belong to two major constellations respectively. Antares and the other two stars are called Shang and belong to Scorpio; Scorpio only appears in the summer sky, while Orion only comes every winter. This is because the difference in right ascension between the two is about 180 degrees, so that people in the same place cannot see them at the same time. Therefore, when summer goes to winter, cold comes to summer, the ginseng star and the business star appear alternately in the sky, one after another, and it is difficult to have a chance to meet each other. This is why there is a folk saying that "participating in business does not meet each other". It is not difficult to understand Du Fu's poem "Movement is like participating in business". As for the natural astronomical phenomenon that the two stars are difficult to meet, people have not yet been able to make a scientific explanation, and many interesting myths have been derived, which cast a layer of mystery on the two stars. One of them is the ancient story of the two stars. One is from Greece and the other is from China. Ancient Greek mythology says that Orion was the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea, and the Queen of the Amazons. Because he believed in his immense power, he was somewhat arrogant and boasted that there was no one more powerful than him. Unexpectedly, he boasted too much and offended the god Zeus and the queen Hera, so they sent poisonous scorpions to sting Orion. Orion is not the opponent of the gods, so he naturally does not dare to provoke Scorpio, so he has to take the thirty-sixth strategy and avoid meeting Scorpio. If you are in the east, I will go to the west; if you appear in winter, I will appear in summer. body. So Orion and Scorpio were hiding and chasing each other in the sky, never having a chance to meet each other. The Chinese myth about the two businessmen not meeting each other is found in "Zuo Zhuan". In ancient times, the Gaoxin family had two sons. The eldest son was called Yan Bo and the younger son was called Shi Chen. They both lived in the open mountains and forests. However, there is no harmony between the two brothers. They often argue over trivial matters and go to war with each other. Gao Xin had no choice but to separate the two brothers and keep them far apart. He moved Yanbo to Shangqiu, where he was in charge of Chen, and Chen was the star of Shang; he moved Shi Shen to Daxia, where he was in charge of Shen, who is the star of Shen. Although it was difficult for the two brothers to meet each other, they got along well. Whether it is the myth of Scorpio and Orion in ancient Greece, or the legend of the two brothers Yanbo and Shichen in China, they all try to give reasonable explanations for the natural astronomical phenomenon that the stars of Shang Dynasty are difficult to meet. It can be seen that Chinese and Western cultures have similarities. But these myths all talk about unwillingness to meet each other because of hatred. Now that thousands of years have passed, the original hatred should have been resolved. Nowadays, "participants" mostly describe people who cannot meet each other due to various reasons.
This is the reason why people associate the difficulty of meeting each other in life with the two stars of Ginseng and Shang, and it is also the reason why Ginseng and Shang are difficult to meet!