Is it reasonable to say in the countryside that "there are few descendants in the grave, no grass on the grave and no property"?

In the eyes of China people, clan is very important, and people attach great importance to their ancestors, especially the genealogy of the family and all the people in the ancestral hall. Every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, no matter how far away, many people try their best to go back to their hometown to visit their graves. This is not only the memory of their deceased relatives by their descendants, but also their filial piety, which is a traditional custom of the Chinese nation. I remember when I was a child, I went to Qingming every year, and I needed to burn paper on the graves of old people who died at home. At that time, the whole family would go together and the whole team was full of energy, but now people pay far less attention to the matter of sweeping graves than before.

Proverbs also have a very important position in our traditional culture. Many people will sum up the living conditions and ideology of that era into proverbs, and many proverbs are passed down from mouth to mouth. It is not very strange to some people that "there are few descendants in the grave, and there is no grass and no property on the grave". It is about people's understanding of graves at that time, and people think that graves will have a certain impact on future generations. The meaning of this proverb is simple. If there were some holes in the graves of ancestors, there would be fewer people in this family. If there were no grass, the family's economic situation would be even worse. Of course, this proverb is only a statement of which era, and there is no empirical inquiry process and scientific basis.

As I said before, people attach great importance to sweeping graves. In China, there are three times to sweep graves, one is Tomb-Sweeping Day, the other is Chung Yeung Festival, and the third is during the Chinese New Year, once every four months on average. If there are many people in your family, when you go to the grave, you will find a hole in front of it and it will be blocked. If it is not blocked, it proves that the family has not visited the grave many times or there are fewer families. This is the source of "the grave collapses and the descendants are rare". It is our duty as children and grandchildren to clean their graves often, but sweeping graves will not clean the grass. Because grass is like firewood, and the pronunciation of firewood and wealth is similar, people will regard grass as a symbol of wealth. In our local area, whenever an old man dies, his family members will bury some grass seeds or roots in the new grave, which is the source of "no grass on the grave".

For us ordinary people, we must treat our ancestors with awe, which is the requirement of our filial piety culture. It is very necessary for us to go back to the grave. If you don't even pay attention to the things of your ancestors, it is difficult to achieve great things. The author thinks that this proverb tells us that no matter what we do, we need to worry about it all the time, and we can't finish it. We should go back often. In our modern society, many old customs have been basically ignored. Now cremation is a trend, and new funeral customs are gradually spreading in rural areas, which is a kind of social progress. The proverb "There are few children when the grave collapses, and there is no grass on the grave, and the family property is lost" can give us the greatest enlightenment now, that is, we need to be filial to our parents when they are alive, don't wait until their parents are gone to regret it, and try our best to make our own career.

The rural proverb "the grave collapses and the descendants are sparse, and there is no grass on the grave." It's about the influence of ancestral graves on future generations. When the grave collapses, there will be fewer descendants and the population will not flourish. If there is no grass on the grave, their descendants will not be rich enough. Not much property. The following specific analysis:

The grave collapses and the descendants are rare.

Every year, Tomb-Sweeping Day is an important day for ancestor worship. On this day, no matter how busy people are at work, they will take time to worship their ancestors and repair the cemetery. It doesn't matter if there are many people. Someone can sweep the grave. More people will make it more lively. Ancestors' graves are all buried in mud. There is wind, sun and rain 365 days a year, so it is normal for Tomb-Sweeping Day to visit and repair the graves once. Therefore, when Tomb-Sweeping Day goes to the grave every year, people will dig holes to seal the holes where there are mouse holes, and move soil to fill the holes where there are depressions.

The grave is actually a house, just the mortuary where the deceased lived. The grave is actually a doorway and an important passage in and out. The tomb collapsed and disappeared, indicating that the house where the ancestors lived was rotten and no one repaired it. This shows that future generations don't pay attention to ancestors' unfinished graves, and there are too few future generations who are busy with their own affairs. No one thought of repairing the ancestral grave where the grave collapsed.

However, in real life, graves that have not been repaired have been old for a long time. Because of the rain, they do become relatively flat, and it is not surprising that the graves collapse. Therefore, it is also reasonable to say that the grave collapses and the descendants are rare.

There is no grass in front of the grave and no property.

Every year, Tomb-Sweeping Day goes to the grave with his family. I find that many graves are covered with all kinds of weeds, and some have small trees, which are particularly lush. However, there are also some graves that can't grow much grass. If there is no tombstone, it looks like a mound, a little collapsed and flattened by rain. Those graves with insufficient grass are high and radian.

At that time, I thought it was the descendants of those cemeteries who thought it was too much trouble to clean up weeds on graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day every year, so weeding with herbicides didn't grow grass. Later, I asked the older generation at home, and they said, you silly child, who would use herbicides to remove weeds from graves? If you don't plant grass, if it rains, the grave will be washed away by the rain, and the soil will be lost, and then you will have to move the soil to fill the grave. Some graves don't grow grass. It may be that there is little grass in that place, and the soil on the grave has poor water retention and is particularly dry, so there is not much grass growing. After all, weeds need a certain amount of water to grow.

Whether the grass growing on the grave affects the prosperity of future generations and whether the life is rich or not, rural cuisine believes that this lacks certain factual basis. It is not that there is no family wealth and poverty without grass on the grave. After all, having a certain amount of family wealth depends on people's efforts. If you don't do anything, you are not a rich second generation, how can you get a prominent family fortune?

There are many graves in so many families in the village, and most of them are covered with grass, but the degree of wealth is different. For example, I have seen some families with lush grass in their ancestral graves, but they may not be rich at home. Many families in the village have built two or three-story buildings and decorated them, but they still live in mud tile houses and live in poverty.

For example, there are several cemeteries near the Woods by the sea, where no grass grows. Tomb-Sweeping Day has been sweeping graves for a month, and the grass in many cemeteries is particularly lush. But those graves are really green and barren, and their families are not bad. Like many residents in the village, they also have houses and cars. We haven't seen them move their graves because their ancestors didn't plant grass on their graves.

Because there is no grass on the grave, when they sweep the grave, they dig a lot of grassy clods in the weeds and move them over to cover them. They looked quite green at that time, and instead of seeing the grass growing better behind them, it withered. Because there is no grass on the grave, in order to prevent the ancestral grave from becoming more and more flat, it is still very careful to shovel dirt and turf on the grave every year. With such descendants, the dead have been buried.

Therefore, it is reasonable to say that "there are few descendants in the grave, there is no grass on the grave, and there is no property", but it is not absolute. As descendants, if you go to the grave to repair the cemetery for your ancestors every year, there will be no grave collapse; And to say that there is no grass on the grave, in fact, it is enough to shovel some turf on the grave every year to maintain it. If you mind, see where the terrain is suitable and you can move the grave.

In rural areas, ancestral graves belong to yin houses, and the houses where the living live are called Yang houses. There are many sayings in Yin House and Yang House that the location and related environment of ancestral graves will have many influences on future generations.

In our countryside, descendants who are far away from home during the Qingming Festival will try their best to "catch up with graves thousands of miles away", even more urgent and necessary than going home for the New Year. Because people pay attention to repairing ancestral graves, they can only do it during the Qingming period, that is, the first four days and the last three days of Qingming, for a total of seven days. Even if a hole is found in the ancestral grave, it is not allowed to move casually.

We know that ancestral graves are actually easily damaged underground. For example, if someone grows crops, they must water them, especially when the river overflows. As an artificial hole, the grave will inevitably collapse and be compacted when it meets water. Therefore, the collapse of the tomb is inevitable. However, if there are more descendants in this family, there will always be people in Tomb-Sweeping Day who will pay their ancestors' graves and plug these holes. But if the family has no descendants, or if the descendants are not rich, few people will ask these things. So this is a natural phenomenon, which is very reasonable.

You may feel strange when you see this sentence. When Tomb-Sweeping Day visited the grave, didn't he want to pull weeds out of the graves of his ancestral graves? This is a serious grave sweeping. I tell you, this grass is no ordinary weed!

In our countryside, the custom is to plant a willow branch in a new grave, probably because the willow tree survives very well. If this willow tree flourishes from now on, it means that future generations will rise and make a fortune. If this willow tree doesn't survive, it means that future generations will have a hard life and won't get ahead easily.

At present, ancestral graves in rural areas in many places have been removed or destroyed because of land acquisition and demolition. Cremation and collective cemetery burial are advocated everywhere, and these sayings about graves are gradually fading. In the future, with the advancement of urbanization, there will be fewer and fewer ancestral graves in rural areas, and these rural proverbs will also be submerged in the long river of culture. As modern civilized people, it is enough for us to know something about it.

The tomb has collapsed and it is difficult for future generations to see it; There is little grass on the grave, and future generations will not be good! This shows the importance of ancestral graves to future generations.

Rural areas attach importance to ancestral graves just like ancestral houses. No ancestral graves, no sustenance, no ancestral houses, no roots. Therefore, no matter rich or poor, they all pay attention to the repair of ancestral graves, and they will move if something goes wrong. As long as there are people at home, we will never let the ancestral graves collapse and disappear. Because of this, it is popular in rural areas that "there are few descendants in the grave, there is no grass on the grave, and the family property is lost."

There will be three changes in rural graves: the first is that they are full of weeds and can't be found; The second is that it is completely invisible here, that is, it completely collapses and disappears, just like other places without graves; Third, on the contrary, the tomb has not shrunk and disappeared, but has grown bigger and bigger.

The tomb in the country collapsed, which shows that no one has come to repair it in time for a long time, reflecting from the side that there are few descendants of the tomb owner. Although this is reasonable, it is not absolute. Because the ancient emperors had the system of "seven temples for emperors", that is, they worshipped their ancestors (such as Taizu) and the ancestors of the last six generations, and those ancestors in the middle moved to the temple because of their "closest relatives", that is, "Jia".

For ordinary people now, the ancestral graves hundreds of years ago were still visited by people, but is there a ancestral grave in the middle? Among those who pay attention to etiquette, "move after five generations" and throw clothes to their ancestors, so "give five clothes", while ancestors are equivalent to "never move" In layman's terms, that is to say, we should worship the emperor and add ancestors. On the other hand, there may be no ancestor worship above Gaozu, but this does not mean that there are few descendants, but it may be a clan with the most surnames.

Of course, some graves are not worshipped because there are no descendants. Over time, it became a lonely grave and soul, and the grave collapsed.

In addition, some graves mentioned above grow naturally, regardless of the number of children and grandchildren. Even if no one adds soil to repair them, they will indeed grow bigger because of the accumulation of soil humus.

What we usually say is that the grass naturally grows on the grave after a period of time. This is normal, but long grass is not normal, unless the grave is hardened with concrete and stone, so there may be less grass growing on the grave. If a grave does not grow grass, will it really make future generations poor?

On quillaja's side, some farmers will deliberately plant perennial grass such as silk grass and spotted grass as grave grass and grave hair. The grave grass planted is not easy to be extinct because of its richness. So if the grass is not long, you can plant a little grave grass. If the grave grass can't grow alive, it may be related to the local habitat. For example, some places are short of water, and it is not easy to grow weeds, but it is not necessarily related to the families of future generations.

It can be seen that the statement that the tomb collapsed and the descendants were scarce is not accurate, nor can it fully reflect the reproduction of future generations. On the contrary, some graves with no heirs at all may get bigger and bigger for special reasons.

The grass growing on the grave is related to the soil quality of the grave, or it may be that some plants that can inhibit the growth of weeds grow around the grave.

This sentence means that if someone's ancestral grave collapses, it indicates that future generations are not prosperous. If the vegetation on the grave is not lush, it implies that the family members of later generations are relatively poor and poor. I don't know if the first half sentence is right, because I don't care whose ancestral grave collapsed when I go to the grave every year. However, I really don't agree with the second part, because every year when I go to the grave on the Cold Clothing Festival, autumn grass is swaying on my grandparents' graves, and the grass grows waist-high. You need to bring a sickle before you go, otherwise you can't find the grave at all. According to this statement, not planting grass on the grave will ruin the family wealth. Conversely, with such thick grass on the grave, isn't our family rich? At least have strong economic strength, but not.

There are not many descendants in the family, and whether the population is prosperous or not has nothing to do with the tomb collapse. This sentence may mean that if there are many descendants in the family, it is impossible to go to the grave to repair the grave every year. From this point of view, it seems that there is some truth, but it is not entirely right. Some people's descendants work outside the home and are too far away to come back to Tomb-Sweeping Day or the Cold Clothes Festival. After a long time, the ancestral graves will inevitably collapse due to wind and rain, which does not mean that their descendants are not prosperous.

Others buried graves in their own farmland. Farming in cultivated land naturally requires frequent watering, and graves will naturally be attacked by water. Year after year, graves sometimes collapse. If there are gophers or weasels hidden in the grave, the grave will collapse faster. The factors causing the tomb collapse are all caused by objective reasons, and have nothing to do with whether the family is prosperous or not.

Let's talk about the fact that there is no grass on the grave. Maybe in some places, because of the geographical location, nothing grows on the grave. But I think there may be no graves without grass except on the Gobi Desert. When I was in Tomb-Sweeping Day, there was not much grass on the grave. But on the first day of October every year, there are many autumn grasses in front of people's graves. But whether it's Tomb-Sweeping Day or Hanyi Festival, when people go to the grave to sweep the grave, they will clear the grass in front of the grave. No one wants weeds to grow on their ancestral graves. But many families will plant a pine and cypress next to the grave, as long as the pine and cypress are evergreen, and there is no need for a overgrown grave.

However, there is a rule in the countryside that the living will sprinkle seeds of various crops such as wheat, corn and millet on the new grave. After sowing these seeds, if it rains lightly, new seedlings will soon grow, which is what rural people often say, a light rain brings a new grave and a noble family comes out. It is also said that the rain brings new graves and herds of mules and horses. At this time, I really hope that new seedlings will grow on the grave. Maybe that's where this sentence comes from.

Some common sayings in rural areas are mostly people's experiences, while others are based on legends passed down from mouth to mouth. Are these statements reasonable? Some do, some don't. Some truths were applicable in ancient times, while others are no longer applicable in modern times.

The problem of the subject is that the grave collapses, with few descendants and no grass in front of it. Is this reasonable? If you want to know if it makes sense, we have to understand this sentence first.

Rural people attach great importance to the graves of their ancestors. Burning paper and offering tributes on holidays are indispensable. There are also some places that have strict regulations on the size of graves, saying that it is not good if the graves are small, not good if they are small, and even worse if they collapse.

So "adding graves" is popular in some places. Is to burn paper with a shovel and add soil to the grave. So there was a serious breakdown and several children. In this case, if you want to make your family prosperous, add a grave quickly.

Does this make sense? Of course not.

Rural people burn paper to the grave to show their thoughts and respect for their ancestors. Adding a grave is more of a psychological comfort. Of course, if the graves of our ancestors collapse, it is not good to ignore them, and others will gossip.

Therefore, adding graves is not directly related to the prosperity of the population.

This sentence is meaningless. There is only long grass on the grave, okay? In many places, there is no grass at all. How can it grow?

In addition, we all know that long grass does not grow grass according to the local environment and geography. There is no denying that grass has grown on most graves in rural areas.

Why does grass grow? Because the vitality of grass is very strong, it is almost everywhere, and the countryside is full of grass, so naturally it will not let the grave go.

This is the law of natural growth. What does it have to do with family assets? For example, someone likes to be clean, and his grave is buried in his own home. When he saw that the grass was uncomfortable, he pulled it up. Is it that he has lost power and influence?

This is not realistic at all, nor is it true.

Conclusion: We should have a clear understanding of some rural sayings. Some statements make sense, while others make no sense at all. What we have to do is to take the essence and discard the dross. You can't blindly think that as long as what you say is unreasonable, you can't feel that it is right to touch some mysterious things.

This proverb means that the grave of the grave has collapsed, so there are few descendants in his family, and there are no weeds on the grave, so the family will be poor and unable to make money. In rural areas, ancestor worship is very grand. Like Tomb-Sweeping Day, many people go back to visit graves. Only once a year. When I go to the grave, I will definitely clean up all the places that should be cleaned up.

Graves are mostly in the mountains, so there will be mice and ants, especially mice, who dig holes in graves. There is also the erosion of rain, and the tomb has collapsed. As in the past, there were a large number of people going to sweep graves, but now there are not so many people. I found this situation in our village, and not many people came back to visit the grave, so I didn't care so much. If there are more descendants in this family and more people go, then they will definitely clean up the grave. For example, some people come back from work, there are few family members, and there is no one to sweep the grave, which will happen. In fact, I think there is some truth in the sentence "grave collapse and few children", but it is not entirely right, because some people are too far away to settle outside. For example, my cousin's husband is at home, and he has gone far away. Nobody cares about his grave, but he is also prosperous.

Speaking of "no grass on the grave, no family property", graves in rural areas are generally long with grass. People think that the grass on the grave is a good symbol, which means that future generations will prosper and families will become better. If there is no grass on the grave, it proves that this cemetery is not a good place and the family is poor. My grandfather's grave is like this. There is no grass on the grave, but it grows around. I was surprised, too. There used to be a lot of weeds in cultivated land there, but since my grandfather was buried there, the grave has been bare and there is no grass, which is quite strange. On the other hand, my uncle's family is really not very good, and I don't know how to relate it to "no grass on the grave"

In a word, I think what the old man left behind is reasonable, but it's not like the saying that the grave collapsed and there were fewer children. I don't think we can blindly believe it. After all, making money depends on your own efforts. For example, there are many bachelors now, and no one will marry you no matter how well the cemetery is managed.

In rural areas, it is very important for people to look at the graves of their deceased friends. They not only think twice when choosing a cemetery, but also attach great importance to the later maintenance of the tomb. People think that the quality of graves will affect the lives of future generations, so there are many proverbs about graves in rural areas, such as "there are few children in the grave, and there is no grass on the grave." So what does this proverb mean? Does it make sense?

Graves are exposed all the year round. After a long time, it will inevitably be damaged by the wind and sun. The grave will not be repaired even after it is damaged or collapsed. That is disrespectful to our ancestors. For the dead, the grave is like the house we live in. If we see that the tomb of the deceased collapsed, we will not repair it. In fact, it is a disrespect for the deceased and a filial piety to the deceased. As the saying goes, filial piety is the first of all virtues. People think that whether a family is prosperous or not has a lot to do with filial piety.

Most graves in rural areas are built in cultivated land. After a long time, many weeds will grow on the grave, so many people will clean up the weeds on the grave and raise a few shovels of soil to make the grave look brand-new. When people clean up weeds on graves, they don't especially clean up weeds, but clean up some overgrown weeds. This is because people think that if there is no grass on the grave, it will affect the wealth of the family.

Personally, I think this proverb is not all reasonable, because there is no connection between whether there is grass on the grave and whether there is money at home, and there is no scientific proof of the previous relationship between the two. But the first sentence is very reasonable, because people who are filial to the elderly are certainly not much worse, especially those who are particularly kind to their deceased families, which shows that this person is a very emotional person, so we should take the essence and discard the dross, don't you think?

Hello, everyone, I am the creator of the field of agriculture, countryside and farmers, and I am very happy to answer this question for you. Let me tell you whether this proverb is reasonable or not.

This proverb means to see how future generations live through the appearance of graves. If the tomb collapsed slightly and some damage occurred, but no descendants came to repair it in time, it means that there are not many descendants and the population is not prosperous. If there is no grass on the grave, it means that the economic conditions of future generations are relatively poor. It can be seen from this proverb that our ancestors still attached great importance to the appearance of graves. But this proverb comes from the thoughts of predecessors, so is it reasonable for us? I don't think it makes sense. Let me give you my opinion.

If there is some damage to the grave, not many descendants will repair it in time. Now everyone has to go to work or school, and no one will know that the ancestral graves are damaged so quickly. Everyone is very busy. People seldom go back to worship their ancestors. They go back to worship their ancestors several times a year. It is impossible to go back every day, so naturally they won't know that their ancestors' graves have been destroyed. Unless someone at home or a fellow villager tells you that you have to wait until you go back to worship your ancestors before you find that their graves have been destroyed. No grass on the grave has nothing to do with the economic conditions of future generations. Because the grave is open-air, it will be soaked in water. If it is not aired in time or there is too much rain, the roots of the grass on the grave will be submerged, so that the roots of the grass will lack oxygen to breathe and produce a lot of alcohol, and then the grass will die of alcohol, so that the grass will not grow in the grave. This has nothing to do with the economic conditions of children and grandchildren. The better the economic conditions, the busier you may be, the less time you have to go back to worship your ancestors, and the graves cannot be cleaned in time. So I think this proverb is unreasonable.

In rural areas, ancestral geomantic omen is considered to be one of the important factors affecting family luck. Therefore, the graves of ancestors should be built regularly, such as Tomb-Sweeping Day and New Year's Eve. When the old man dies, he should choose the grave carefully. Everyone wants to choose the so-called "land of geomantic omen" and plant evergreen trees around the grave. In rural areas, whether a family's ancestral graves are cleaned or not will be used to evaluate whether the child is filial.

Rural proverbs are summed up by farmers according to their life experience. Express profound peasant philosophy in just a few lines. "The grave collapsed and there were few children, and there was no grass on the grave, indicating that children could clean the ancestral graves. Literally, if the graves of ancestors are leveled or collapsed, and there are no small peaks or holes before, then there are few descendants; If the grave is clean and there are no weeds, then the descendants of this family are poor and it is difficult to make money. So, what is the truth of such a proverb?

Aside from the concentrated tombstones in the city and the popular tomb pavilions in the countryside, the original tombs are all made of earth, similar to a small mountain peak, especially the new grave, which is tall and big. According to the custom of sweeping graves in rural areas, graves will be swept at least in Tomb-Sweeping Day, the Double Ninth Festival and New Year's Eve, especially in Tomb-Sweeping Day, where soil should be cultivated, capped and willows planted. Therefore, if you go to worship regularly, you will definitely make up for the collapse in time, and often cultivate the soil to ensure the height and size of the grave.

In rural areas, graves are not only places to bury ancestors, but also "keepsakes" to bless future generations. No family wants their ancestors' graves to be inferior to other families, or to be in rags. Broken homes can be repaired, but broken graves must be repaired. Therefore, the collapse of a family's ancestral grave, on the one hand, indicates that the situation is not good and can not bless future generations; On the other hand, it also shows that there are few children and grandchildren, and no one takes care of the grave.

Graves in rural areas pay attention to "before the water and behind the mountains". Although it can't be fully realized, the lush grassland also represents the prosperity of the family. In fact, this is also the meaning of Qingming. When we look back at the ancient official hats, they all have an erect spike, which means that future generations will be promoted and made a fortune. In addition, during the Qingming period, weeds around graves will be cleared, but weeds on graves will not, because grass means "firewood" and "wealth". If grass is removed, wealth will actually be removed, which is not conducive to the development of future generations.

Of course, it's not that nothing is removed, and it will also be considered unfilial. For example, there is a kind of "pulp tree" in the village, which farmers hate because it grows fast and its roots will be inserted into the grave. Causing the tomb to crack and usually trying to remove it.

Recently, however, a new treatment has become popular in the village. As I explained in the article before, adding cement to graves is unacceptable to many people at first, and they feel that it is "airtight" and there is no "wealth". But in order to save trouble, many people have transformed many others into rural businesses.