What do you mean by the power of anti-chaff?

The old saying in the countryside, "Those who have the power to beat chaff must have the heart to pick flowers", generally refers to people's basic desires and the life between husband and wife. This sentence means that as long as they have a little strength, they will never forget the worldly desires. The word "heart of picking flowers" refers to men, but the whole sentence is also aimed at men's behavior.

This sentence reminds me of a joke I once heard from a friend: an old man was in a coma when he was dying, and his family was crying. The child kept calling him dad, but the old man still didn't open his eyes. At this moment, his good friend came over and said, I found a beautiful woman for you. Do you want to see it?

Unexpectedly, a miracle happened. The old man instantly opened his eyes and asked, where is the beauty? Although this is just a joke, it is enough to show that "those who have the power to beat chaff must have the heart to pick flowers."

In the 1950s and 1960s, I often didn't have enough to eat. At that time, there was no TV. Of course, I didn't know what the phone looked like at that time. City people have dinner in the evening. Maybe they can go to the cinema or run on the road or something.

Rural people have no entertainment after meals, and they want to read for a while, but they are reluctant to waste kerosene. After dinner at night, they go to bed on the kang. At that time, there was no family planning, and the only "entertainment" at night was giving birth. Any child could drag his feet and queue up at a distance.

Although the poor didn't even have enough to eat at that time, they didn't delay having children. Rural people also have their own explanations: without food and hunger, going to bed early is even worse. Men in the countryside say that they go to the kang as soon as it gets dark. How can they get so much sleep? The poorer they are, the more children they have.

There used to be a man in the village who was about forty years old. He came out and told him that because there was nothing to eat at home, he went to his mother-in-law's house to beg for some dried sweet potatoes, ate dried sweet potatoes at home, and immediately gave birth to a child. This incident once became a joke in the village.