As the saying goes, "Men don't make money in the twelfth lunar month", what does it mean?

What does the rural old saying "Men in the twelfth lunar month don't make money, and men in June don't make money" mean? Can't you make money during the Spring Festival? You can make money in the new year. Even in the twelfth lunar month, many people in rural areas continue to work. For example, many people in our village need to work until the 25th of the twelfth lunar month to have a holiday for the New Year, and some villagers will also go to the city to earn money during the peak working season for the New Year. In fact, this is just the view of different times, which should be extremely inconsistent with the concept of modern rural society! Let's talk about it briefly:

As for the old saying "men don't make money in the twelfth lunar month", although people didn't make money in the twelfth lunar month in the past, I feel that this is directly related to the past rural agricultural production and living customs! The specific reasons are as follows:

On the one hand, because the cold winter is the slack time of the year, farmers basically have no farm work at the moment and have few job opportunities, so they can only spend their leisure time at home. After all, there were few economic activities in rural areas before, and there were not many opportunities to earn money by working!

On the other hand, because the cold winter is also a time for people to take a lot of supplements and recuperate, because agricultural production used to be basically manual labor, and often after working in the fields for nearly a year or hard work, many people lose weight and are exhausted physically and mentally. In addition, in cold winter, it often snows, which is extremely cold. At this time, people have few measures to keep out the cold and keep warm, and it is easy to consume a lot of calories in the body again, so that weight loss will continue to accelerate. If they don't replenish it in time, they may make their bodies unbearable in winter, even in spring, and their weak bodies will completely collapse because of the arrival of the busy farming season, so it will not be worth the candle! To this end, people will seize the time to make up for it in the cold winter, and lay a solid foundation for agricultural production in the coming year by killing pigs and sheep and eating all kinds of delicious food.

Thirdly, the winter is approaching the New Year every year. Generally, after the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, there is a folk saying that "it is the year after Laba", and there are often many traditional customs and sacrificial activities. In addition, in the cold winter, it is also a time of visiting relatives and friends, weddings and funerals, and often a lot of people are worldly. At this time, there is basically no time to go out to earn money!

Fourth, people say that "men in the twelfth lunar month don't make money", but they are actually urging people who are working hard outside to get ready to go home for the New Year! In the past, due to inconvenient transportation or poor transportation, it was easy to encounter heavy snow and road closures in winter, and it was extremely difficult to go home for the New Year. Sometimes, people who walk for a month don't go home, so they will miss the reunion with their families during the New Year. Therefore, in order to urge people who leave home to go home and reunite with their loved ones at the end of the year, there is often a saying that they don't make money when they go home for the New Year in the twelfth lunar month!

As for "June heroes don't make money", it is actually because the weather is unbearable at this time and it is difficult to work normally outdoors. Once sun exposure leads to heatstroke, it will make people unable to eat! Because the lunar calendar has been busy with the summer harvest in June, there is generally no shortage of food at this time, and there is no need to make money with your life, let alone the autumn harvest season. If the body can't eat at this time, which will affect the busy harvest in the next season, it is naturally thankless!

However, with the development of rural social economy, the old saying that people don't earn money in the twelfth lunar month or June is no longer in line with people's way of life. In particular, farmers are becoming less and less profitable in farming, and they can only increase their income by going out to work all year round, so even in the hot or cold winter in June, many people are still trying their best to make money. After all, you can't spend money if you want to continue your life! The above is only a personal opinion! What do you think of this? Welcome to leave a message for interaction!