As the saying goes, "30 fat, coffin as a house", what does it mean?

China people attach importance to two things, one is promotion and wealth, and the other is self-cultivation. Promoting to a higher position and getting rich is the utilitarian pursuit of China people. If you want to get a better life, you must take the shortcut of life, and the so-called shortcut is not illegal, but a fast lane.

Officialdom and market are the fast lanes of success in life. As long as the above can achieve something, then life will naturally rise. But in addition to this utilitarian pursuit, China people will not lose themselves and pay more attention to moral cultivation.

There are many explanations about self-cultivation in China culture, but most of them are straightforward and obscure. In folk culture, some easy and straightforward exhortations are more likely to make people get some education after smiling.

For example, there is a folk saying: "30 fat, coffin as a house." 30 years old is a very important stage in life. When Confucius talked about the stages of life, he called thirty years old "standing". The so-called "stand" is not to stand up.

This is a state of life. Before the age of 30, a person should be financially and personally independent. This independence is the result of his youth. But at the age of 30, he is in the golden age of his life and his career is booming.

The ancients warned that the most important thing at this age is to pay attention to the weight gain of the body. If you get fat, it's equivalent to living in a coffin every day. This will make many people shudder. People reach middle age when they are 30 years old. Why is gaining weight a matter of life and death?

The ancients warned that the most important thing at this age is to pay attention to the weight gain of the body. If you get fat, it's equivalent to living in a coffin every day. This will make many people shudder. People reach middle age when they are 30 years old. Why is gaining weight a matter of life and death?

The ancients said that this is not an alarmist. In ancient society, the average life expectancy of people was not long. Generally speaking, time is running out after 25 years. In that case, many people may laugh. In people's impression, although some recognized ancients died early, most of them are still old and can live to 70 or 80 years old.

But this impression is people's prejudice, because we know that most of them are achievements. In ancient agricultural society, people can achieve something. No matter Wu, they all need at least one chance to succeed, and there are no ordinary people in ancient China.

Maybe, in our opinion, any ancient person will have a chance to go to high school as long as he studies hard for ten years in a cold window, but I don't know that it is not cold to have a chance to really help others, because ordinary people, whose children are regarded as important family work as early as seven or eight years old, have a lot of economic ability and rations to support their children for ten years?

In ancient times when there was no compulsory education, all the people who could study were rich, and those who could study and be officials accumulated at least several generations of wealth. Therefore, according to the prejudice of survivors, we think that the life span of ancient people is similar to that of modern people, and many of them have reached the age when their beards turn white. But in ancient times, the average life expectancy of people was only 30 to 40 years old.

Because thirty is the most dangerous age for the ancients, the ancients were cautious about weight gain at this age. According to modern scientific theory, we already know that obesity will increase our potential morbidity, not to mention in ancient times when the medical level was extremely low.

If you have hypertensive heart disease, you can't get any effective control and treatment, only time is running out. The ancient people's obesity at the age of 30 is not based on aesthetic requirements, but a serious problem of life and death.

This is the reality. After reading the phrase "thirty is fat, and the coffin is used as a house", we know that our ancestors can't talk nonsense, which is a reasonable philosophy of life. Although the current medical level has been greatly improved compared with ancient times, for example, many diseases can be effectively controlled, but obesity at the age of 30 is not life-threatening.

But for us, health is still the first. Even if there is no life-threatening, body fat will still cause many chronic diseases, but try to avoid it. Therefore, for all of us, whether we are 30 years old or over, controlling weight, paying attention to diet and keeping a healthy figure will be of great benefit to our lives.

The aphorisms of our ancestors may be out of date now, but the truth behind them is still ancient. They are worth remembering and can arouse our interest in traditional culture. We should also inherit and preserve these proverbs, which are the cultural wealth of our nation.