As the saying goes, "If the grave collapses, there will be fewer children, and if there is no grass on the grave, there will be no property." What does that mean? What's the point?

"You bury the mud under the spring to nail the bone, and I will send the snow all over the world." -Bai Juyi's Dream Micro

Sima Qian once said in Historical Records that "people are inherently mortal, or heavier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather". Winning or losing is a common occurrence in military strategists, and so is birth, illness and death. Once you walk in the world, you can't escape the words "birth and death" just to see if this person's death is valuable. After a person dies, there will be family members to take care of the aftermath. In people's eyes, besides letting the dead rest in peace, it also has a lot to do with the fortune of the living.

Although China has a history and cultural heritage of 5,000 years, since ancient times, people have been very taboo about "death", because death has no meaning, so people will respect the deceased very much. The so-called Great Death stems from people's awe of "death".

And China also trusted the theory of Feng Shui very much. In people's eyes, the location and changes of ancestral graves can determine the fate of future generations, so there is a saying that "the grave collapses and the descendants are sparse, and there is no grass on the grave".

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Literally, this proverb is very direct. If the tomb collapses, it means that future generations will slowly wither and wither. If there is no grass on the tomb, it means that future generations will gradually become poorer and poorer, and even their property will be exhausted. In fact, this statement is superstitious Everyone has his own life pressure, not to mention living in a fast-paced society. So most people will only clean their ancestral graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and leave the rest of the time to the wind and rain.

The so-called grave is actually just a pile of dirt. After the baptism of wind and rain, how can it not collapse? So there is still a deep superstition in this sentence, and there is not much to learn from it. But for this kind of thing, most people are taboo, even if it is nonsense, but every time Tomb-Sweeping Day will fill up the ancestral grave, and if there is no grass on the grave, he will shovel some grass to plant it, which has become a daily routine for people to sweep graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

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Of course, it's normal to see that one's ancestral grave is different from others', but it's just passed down slowly. Although there is no scientific basis, it is worth practicing. After all, if outsiders see that their ancestral graves have not grown grass and collapsed, they will inevitably be laughed at. Therefore, in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people sweep graves not only to remember their ancestors, but also to show filial piety to future generations.

As for whether this sentence is credible or not, it can only be said that if you believe it, you will have it, and if you don't believe it, you will have it. And all kinds of proverbs handed down by the ancients are mostly the crystallization of wisdom. Believe it or not!