The truth that has spread to 2 1 century mostly appears in the form of proverbs. Although some folk proverbs are a bit rough, the truth is simple and clear.
From ancient times to 2 1 century, there are many proverbs, some related to geomantic omen, and some related to people's daily life.
No matter what kind of proverb it is, it has some truth to some extent.
Even in the eyes of people in 2 1 century, the truth in some proverbs is really not practical, but if you understand them carefully, you will find that proverbs are just ancient cultural traditions and a portrayal of the real life of the ancients.
As the saying goes, "eat ten and wear eight, and gamble half empty." Do you know what this means? What kind of culture do the numbers mentioned in proverbs represent? 2 1 century people want to live a stable life, get promoted and get rich, can they achieve something by following the truth in this proverb?
First, "eat ten and wear eight"
In the saying handed down from ancient times, as long as there is food and clothing, most of the reasons mentioned are that they are full and dissatisfied.
Eating and wearing here actually warns people to be full when eating and to be warm when dressing.
If we interpret this proverb with the thinking of people in 2 1 century, it will be difficult to understand.
After all, people in 2 1 century can only eat enough, and must not eat too much, otherwise eating too much will bring some harm to our health and some burden to our digestive system.
Eating too well and too full will increase our body fat, and some boys and girls who love beauty will not be full when eating.
So what does "eat ten" mean here?
Since it is a proverb left over from ancient times, if you want to understand its meaning, you naturally have to refer to the real life of ancient people.
As we all know, in ancient times, people's lives were divided into three grades, and most of the people who could eat well were the only children of rich families.
It is also difficult for poor families at the lower level to have enough to eat.
In ancient times, as long as there were natural disasters, people would go hungry.
When famine came, many lower-class refugees had to die.
Because most people have no food to eat, and there are not a few people who die every year because there are no snacks entering the body to maintain people's physical exercise, so ancient people taught their children from an early age that if they have the opportunity to eat a full meal, they must eat very full.
Because apart from this opportunity, people don't know when they can have a second full meal.
Dressing in the proverb means: whether in hot season or cold season, you can't wear too much or too little clothes, but you must wear them until you are warm.
When winter comes, if people wear more than eight points or less, they may catch a cold when they are exposed to cold air when they take off their clothes.
The hot season is coming. If a person wears too much, more than eight points, then when they feel that the weather is hot, they will immediately untie the bag wrapped around them and enjoy the coolness brought by the strong wind, and they will undoubtedly get sick because their bodies can't adapt to the surrounding temperature for a while.
Medical conditions in ancient times were not good. Once people get sick, most of them can only wait for their own recovery or face death.
Therefore, for the sake of health, ancient people could not wear too much or too little when dressing.
Second, "whoring empty gambling half"
The second half of the proverb is actually easy to understand. The "whoring" mentioned here refers to people spending money to play in fireworks Liuxiang.
In ancient times, every place had professional places for upper-class people to eat, drink and have fun. The whoring mentioned here was linked to women.
In ancient entertainment places, some women sold themselves without performing arts, and some women sold themselves without performing arts.
People who go here to play have to pay for entertainment no matter how rich they are.
No matter how rich the family is, they will be cheated into poverty.
What the ancients called "gambling half" refers to people entering casinos for entertainment. In ancient times, many people always wanted to get rich overnight. They didn't want to get money through their own efforts. They just wanted to gamble at the gambling table.
Although at the gambling table, everyone's winning or losing probability is 1/2, in the end, there are not many people who can really win money, and most people lose their homes.
The "half-gambling" here refers to the probability of winning or losing, on the other hand, it means that the ancients will put half their lives at the end.
Summary:
It is of little use to put the first half of the proverb in 2 1 century.
Because people's way of life is different from that of ancient times, it is really far-fetched to put "eat ten and wear eight" in 2 1 century.
The second half of the proverb is the essence that truly embodies the great wisdom of our ancestors. No matter in ancient times or in 2 1 century, as long as people involved in prostitution and gambling, no matter how rich, will eventually become poor.
If a poor person is exposed to these two kinds of bad behaviors, then he will basically spend the rest of his life on the words "whoring" and "gambling".