What does the folk saying: "A man traveling a thousand miles should never eat wolfberry" mean?

What does the folk saying: "When a man travels a thousand miles, he must not eat wolfberry" mean? Young couples need to pay more attention

Folk proverbs do not contain celebrity allusions like idioms, nor are they as poetic and picturesque as rhymed poems. However, as a unique Chinese folk culture, it also contains the life experience and wisdom of the Chinese working people. At the same time, it also contains a strong flavor of ordinary people's lives.

What the editor is going to talk about today is a popular saying: "When a man travels a thousand miles, he must not eat wolfberries." What does it mean? When I first read this saying, I am afraid that many people will have the same doubts as the editor: Why don’t men eat it? Isn’t wolfberry a good health food? Let me talk about it in detail below.

Wolfberry, an oval berry. It is recorded in "Compendium of Materia Medica" that "long-term use can withstand cold and heat and strengthen bones and muscles." Chinese medicine practitioners often use it to treat dizziness, sore knees, and make up for liver and kidney deficiencies.

Modern medical research has also found that wolfberry can delay aging and enhance immunity. What's more, now, with the improvement of living standards, everyone has begun to maintain health, and soaking wolfberry in a thermos cup seems to be a symbol of modern people's health care. But it is overlooked that some people with weak spleens cannot drink water soaked in wolfberry.

But in the poor years, people whose families were not living well had to leave their hometowns to seek a livelihood in distant big cities. At that time, uneducated people could only engage in manual labor, and all adult men had to go out to work, whether they were newly married young men or middle-aged men who had been married for a long time.

So they left their wives and children and went to a place they were unfamiliar with, staying for a year, two or more. In common people's perception, wolfberry can be used to strengthen yang and nourish the kidneys. So usually at home, when a couple discusses having a child, the wife or husband will prepare some wolfberries so that the child can arrive early.

For men who are about to travel far away, they will face the long-term absence of their wives. At this point, the editor believes that most readers already know what wolfberry means in this proverb.

Yes, "wolfberry" in this proverb not only means the traditional Chinese medicine wolfberry, but also has a metaphorical meaning. It means that the husband does not mess around outside.

So "when a man travels a thousand miles, he must not eat wolfberry", on the one hand, it means that men are working far away from home and should not eat wolfberry to strengthen yang and kidney; on the other hand, it means that the wives are all women's families. She is relatively thin-skinned, especially a newlywed wife who is too embarrassed to tell her husband not to mess around with women outside, so she can only imply that her husband should not eat wolfberries outside. So young wives need to pay more attention to their husbands who are away from home.

At the same time, it also lets husbands who are traveling far away from home know how to keep themselves clean and be loyal to their wives, and know that they still have wives and children at home waiting for them to come back.

Metaphor is not only a way of expressing language, but also a way of expressing people's life behaviors. On the surface, wolfberry and don't mess with women outside have very different meanings, but through people's thinking and creation, readers can understand the deeper meaning.