Why did the ancients have the habit of "staying in a deserted grave rather than living in a deserted temple"?

There is a simplified version of the saying "It is better to spend the night in a deserted grave than in an ancient temple". What does it mean? Is an ancient temple worse than a deserted grave? To tell you the truth, the ancient temple is really more terrible than the barren grave. This is a personal problem.

Ning Su Huang Tomb

The graveyard in the wild is inaccessible. What you are afraid of is nothing more than a ghost and fox that no one has ever seen. As long as you control your inner fear, there is nothing to be afraid of in the desolate grave, which is the same reason that ghosts will never invade the bed. You sleep alone at home, afraid of death, and suddenly you are full of security.

Ghosts and gods say that if you believe, you won't believe. The main factor of being afraid of ghosts lies in your mind. If you are open-minded, ghosts and gods won't bother you. As the saying goes, "You don't do anything wrong, and you are not afraid of ghosts knocking at the door". In addition, it is said that ghosts are afraid of evil people. The more kind and timid you are, the more you will be pestered by ghosts (villains). If you really meet a ghost, you have the courage to fight him hard.

In addition, from the perspective of geomantic omen, the graveyard is actually a good choice for a person to spend the night in the wild, because China people have been paying great attention to the geomantic omen of the yin house since ancient times, and the graveyard is usually in a higher position, with the mountains facing the water at the back, which is relatively open, so that even if it rains and blows at night, there will be mountains to shelter from the wind and there will be no water accumulation.

In this way, natural disasters have been avoided to a certain extent. Moreover, in the middle of nowhere, there is basically no need to worry about man-made disasters. You know, if there are monsters in this world, they are far less terrible than people's hearts.

Don't live in a deserted temple

Compared with a deserted temple, a deserted tomb gives people an intuitive feeling that the deserted temple is more comfortable and more secure, because even if it is dilapidated, it has a wall and a roof, which is not afraid of the wind and rain, but you should know that other people will choose the deserted temple for the night.

For example, ancient pedestrians chose a deserted temple to spend the night, just like modern people chose to spend the night under the overpass when they were desperate. Who are the people who spent the night under the overpass? There are all kinds of passers-by. I'm not saying that these people are bad, but they are strangers to each other. You don't know what kind of people they are. The so-called people have ulterior motives. Maybe there are fugitives among them.

The same is true of ancient deserted temples. You can make do with them at night. You don't know where the fugitives are, where the mountain king is, where the warlords are, and there may be monks in the deserted temple itself. Together, are these people really safer than the graveyard? Obviously impossible.

Again, if there are monsters in this world, they are far less terrible than people's hearts.

Let's take a look at those terrible deserted temples in ancient literary works.

The deserted temple in literary works

The most famous is Water Margin, in front of which there is a red-haired ghost lying drunk in the Lingguan Hall. Who is the red-haired ghost Liu Tang? Bandits! He came here to find Classical and discuss the interception of the birth program. He is a fugitive, right? You should be in the Lingguan Hall, and you will be scared to death when you see his appearance.

Then there is Lin Chongfeng Snow Mountain Temple. Coach Lin is certainly a good man, but he was framed in this mountain temple and almost lost his head. After Wu Song's blood spattered the Yuanyang Building, he also fled to the small ancient temple for the night, and was tied up in the middle of the night. Later, he encountered flying centipedes and other things, so I won't go into details; Lu Zhishen went to the crock temple to spend the night, and met Cui Daocheng and Qiu Xiaoyi, two demons, who were also fighting.

think about it, some people dare to tie Wu Erlang and monk Hua, not to mention you and me.

In Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, many people encounter strange things in ancient temples. Let's not talk about monsters such as fox spirits and mandrills like Nie Xiaoqian. This belongs to the category of monsters. Let's just say that Cloth Merchants, an itinerant trader, spent the night in a temple, and as a result, he met a group of evil monks, who not only robbed money, but also killed people. If it wasn't for the woman in red, it would attract defense.

and so on. In many ancient literatures, when it comes to night and ancient temples, nine times out of ten, it is a thrilling and bloody period, which shows the terrible place of deserted temples.

"One person doesn't go into the temple, two people don't look at the well, and three people don't lift the wood", just like this sentence "It's better to stay in a deserted grave than in a deserted temple", which is all about human nature. You walk alone, stay in an ancient temple, and the stranger who lives with you may seem gentle, polite and courteous, or he may be a good person himself, but many tragedies occur in "seeing money and starting from the heart".

Therefore, it is necessary to guard against people. It is better to stay in a deserted grave than a deserted temple.