What is the truth of the sentence "If you die of poverty, you will not plow, and if you starve to death, you will not enter the radish garden"?

Our ancestors constantly summed up experience in the process of labor and formed today's statement. The experience they summed up is catchy and word of mouth. Due to the different background of the times, the understanding of each proverb is different in ancient and modern times.

Proverbs are generally time-sensitive, and some experiences summarized by our ancestors may not be applicable in modern times, but some are still universal in ancient and modern times. Bian Xiao also shared with you an ancestor's experience today: the poor will die if they don't plow the fields or starve to death if they don't enter the radish garden.

Do you know what this proverb means? Is it worth learning from?

Photo: stills of ancient cultivated land

Let's talk about the first half: the poor don't plow to death.

The so-called father-in-law is the father-in-law of a man, that is, a married man should address his wife's father. Although the ancients didn't have to spend so much money to marry a daughter-in-law, poor families still couldn't get it.

Nowadays, many places borrow money everywhere because they can't afford the high bride price, and then pay back the money together when the young couple get married. In ancient times, poor families also needed to borrow money from many people to get a wife.

If you can borrow money smoothly, that's no problem. If you can't borrow money, you can only sell your family's fields. However, after selling the land, there is no arable land at home. Without land, the food problem at home cannot be solved. What should we do?

The answer is to take or rent other people's fields. However, whether you take it or rent it, it depends on the owner of the venue. If the other person is someone else, it can be cultivated. But anyone's field can be cultivated, except his father's field.

Why do you say that? Is it because you're embarrassed to charge rent or something? Of course not.

Photo: stills of cultivated land

In addition to his wife, there must be other members of his father-in-law's family, so he naturally needs to support himself. Moreover, the ancients separated after marriage, and men should solve all the problems in their own homes and be real parents.

There is no food at home, so I go to my father-in-law's house to eat and drink every day, not to mention whether my father-in-law will be angry or not, just because of his own face.

Ancient men were very proud. When they marry their own daughters, they should treat each other as their own daughters. However, this "home" is measured and far away. If you need to rely on the strength of your father-in-law's family to maintain yourself after marriage, it's too shameful.

Generally speaking, after the daughter gets married, there are other brothers in the father-in-law's family. If you often stay in your father-in-law's house, even your brother-in-law may not be happy, which may lead to conflicts. This happens so often that even the neighbors will make fun of the incompetence of being a son-in-law.

Photo: Go to my father-in-law's house to eat and drink stills.

In ancient times, no matter what happened to anyone's family, they were unwilling to let outsiders know, preferring to keep a secret themselves rather than let others enlighten them. For the ancients, dignity is much more important than rice bowls, which is why there is a saying that "people starve to death and don't eat their income."

Now that I am married, I naturally have to solve the food problem in my family. It is far better to work hard to create than to beg others.

The process of self-creation may be a bit bitter, but it makes people feel valuable and makes them feel a sense of accomplishment. The most important thing is to create it yourself. No one will look down on themselves, no matter how hard life is.

In ancient times, door-to-door son-in-law was the most despised. Even children born can't use their own surnames, only their wives' surnames. If you go to your father-in-law's house for a long time, others will think that you are a son-in-law, which is equivalent to giving others face and making others laugh at you.

Photo: stills of son-in-law at home

Let's talk about the second half of the sentence: starve to death and not enter the radish garden.

Radish, a kind of food, is very common and popular in any era. Any vegetable farmer who grows vegetables at home will grow radishes. Radish can also eat a lot of patterns, fried radish is the most common, if it is really inexhaustible, it can also be dried or pickled into other varieties. Eating radish also has many offensive functions. Radish is also called "Little Ginseng".

Radish has other functions besides eating, such as carving it as an ornament when it is loaded. Speaking of the function and efficacy of radish, there are too many. The most important thing is that radishes are particularly easy to harvest.

As long as the seeds are scattered in the ground, radish seedlings can be eaten in less than half a month. No matter from which level, radish is the most popular fruit and vegetable for the people. However, why "starve to death and not enter the radish garden"?

The picture comes from the internet: radish growing in the ground.

Theoretically speaking, people are hungry to a certain extent, even rice should be grabbed and stuffed in their mouths, let alone radishes. However, radish can't be used for emergency. The reason for this statement is to understand it from a medical point of view.

Radish, as a kind of fruit and vegetable, has an appetizing effect, just like hawthorn. If you eat radish when you are extremely hungry, not only can you not satisfy your hunger, but the more you eat, the hungrier you get.

Moreover, radish is a cold food, and eating radish properly is very nutritious, but if you eat radish in large quantities without any food in your stomach, it will lead to cold in your spleen and stomach. Once a person's spleen and stomach catch cold, there will be many serious problems, such as shortness of breath, which is difficult to regulate.

Therefore, eating radish in a state of extreme hunger is undoubtedly creating trouble for your body and making yourself die faster.