Is there any basis for the saying that rural elders always say, "Eating and sweating will lead to a lifetime of hard work in vain"?

This is a common saying in rural areas: Eat and sweat and work for nothing. This sentence has a specific environment in rural areas, and it also has two different meanings.

Another meaning is that in the past rural areas, labor force was mainly used to reflect a person's value. A person's diligence and laziness are related to his living standard. It is like this situation. If a young person People don't like to do farm work and don't put in any effort when doing farm work in the fields. Naturally, the sweat doesn't appear at this time, but when they go home to eat, they gorge themselves on it, fearing that others will snatch it from you and end up with a head full of food. Dahan, for this kind of people, they are very lazy. If they don’t work but only eat, their life will be in vain.

As for the second meaning, it is easy to sweat profusely due to physical health. When rural people do farm work, they need a relatively strong body. A strong body is necessary to gain a foothold in the poor society. an important condition. If your body is weak, you have insufficient Qi and blood and you sweat easily, your body is very moist and your body is relatively cold, then sooner or later a disease will break out in your body. If you don’t have a good body, how can you enjoy good health? What about life?

In fact, many common sayings that appear in rural areas today are based on the experience of the older generation. As for this sentence, eating and sweating will be in vain. In fact, most of them are based on the first meaning. Because we know that in the original agricultural society, it was very difficult for the family itself. If a person does not work hard, but is particularly energetic when eating, then naturally he will be sitting on nothing for a long time. Of course, it will last a lifetime. Didn't do anything.