The old saying goes, "A wall against a wall will destroy a home; a door against a door will hurt someone." What does this mean?

Chinese culture is extensive and profound, with many types, including poetry and ancient prose. One of its branches is proverbs, which come from life. They are the wisdom of ancient people derived from life and used to express their own ideas.

These proverbs were also used by ancient people to express their thoughts more clearly.

For example, "the grass on the wall will fall on both sides when the wind blows", "the wall has ears", "everyone will push the wall if it falls", etc. There are also sayings such as "the people on the wall will perish".

There are common sayings about doors being "stepping stones", "distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, and close neighbors are not as good as the door to the door", and "doors to doors can hurt people".

In modern society, bustling lights and high-rise buildings are places that people yearn for, but in the old society, everyone lived in dilapidated bungalows.

Many small bungalows in rural areas have disappeared and have been turned into independent self-built villas.

This is not only because high-rise buildings can make reasonable use of space, but also because there are some common sayings that have been circulated among the people.

For example: If there is a wall on the wall, the home will be destroyed. Another example is that the house cannot be door to door. What is the reason for this? Let’s talk about it next.

1. The family on the wall will perish

There is a record in ancient literature: "The emperor's hall is nine feet, the princes are seven feet, the officials are five feet, and the scholars are three feet."

In the old days, people would judge the status of a family based on the height of the wall. The higher the wall, the higher the status.

As we have seen in TV dramas, the walls in the homes of wealthy families are very high, while the homes of ordinary people have small bungalows. Without money and power, they can only live in low-rise buildings. .

The walls of tall homes can also help prevent theft.

For the wall on the wall, this sentence is easy to understand. It means building a wall on the wall. It means building another layer on the one-story bungalow.

This has led to comparisons among wealthy families. Whoever has a higher wall means a higher status and identity. However, the desire to compare has also deceived people, who only focus on raising the walls. Building a fortress, but not paying attention to the foundation problem, blindly demanding high standards regardless of the quality of the building itself, will lead to the indestructibility of the wall.

After being hit by wind and rain, it will only collapse, causing casualties.

The old building materials are not as good as modern building materials. There are no added chemical materials, reinforced concrete, etc. In the old days, there were only some simple silt, bricks, and tiles. Many You will see when the wind blows, it will cause large-scale casualties.

Poverty-stricken families cannot afford to use expensive materials to build houses, so they are more likely to collapse and families will be depressed. In other words, "walls against walls will destroy the family." "As the saying goes.

For modern rural areas, this phenomenon rarely occurs. Even if there is not a lot of money to build high-rise houses, two to three-story villas will be built for space utilization.

For another example, most people in modern cities live in high-rise buildings. Any residential area is a high-rise building with a dozen floors or more, and collapse is rare. In other words, such a saying is a big deal. Most of them are feudal superstitions and cannot be trusted.

But it was true in ancient times, but it is no longer applicable to the present.

2. Door to door will hurt people

In rural areas, most places are used as fields to grow rice and fruits and vegetables.

So the land in front of the door is extremely important. You can set up a small vegetable garden, park your car, and dry rice during busy farming seasons.

In addition, some old ladies in rural areas in the old days were more interested in rights and interests, so if two families lived in opposite doors, it would be difficult to tell them clearly when they occupied the space, because more was used for drying millet. A point for one family can also lead to two families scolding each other.

Everyone in the countryside raises livestock, which can be exchanged for money or eaten at home. In the past, there was no feed like now. Most of them let chickens, ducks and geese go to the fields to eat insects or rice. Some also let their own poultry eat some while drying the millet. During the autumn harvest, both families would dry the millet, and their own would quarrel if they ate an extra share of other people's. After all, food was very important to people in the poor era at that time. , just because life is equally important.

Moreover, living in opposite doors is also influential for superstitious people in rural areas, because doors opposite each other will also attract the luck of the other person's family, especially because in rural areas, all houses are self-built, and the height is different, and the same will happen. The idea of ????big sucking and small sucking appeared.

Such a situation will also lead to the escalation of conflicts between the two families, resulting in a fight and casualties.

Summary:

Although these two proverbs are knowledge passed down to this day by our ancestors, they are not suitable for use today. When readers see these proverbs, We must also make decisions based on the actual situation, not just because what was said in the past is what we said in the past. We also have to have our own ideas.