It was mentioned in the book "Jin Ping Mei" in the Ming Dynasty.
there is a folk tradition in Chinese New Year - the first month can not shave, say it is a shaving, and will die uncle. Over the years, I have been keeping this habit, that is, I am afraid my mother will not be pleased. Later, the author felt curious and began to do some inquiries.
"Ye county annals" in the customs of the Republic of China in the Republic of China has such a record: "the imperial edict of shave in the Qing Dynasty before the Qing Dynasty was carried out in Shunzhi for four years, the Ming Dynasty system changed, the folk thought of shave and the old gentleman, thus saying 'think old'. For a long time, it was mistaken for "death uncle." The Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs and ordered the Han people to shave and braid. Han people cherish their homeland, so they do not shave their heads in the first month, in order to show that they do not forget the old king. Because homophonic change, thinking of the old become a dead uncle, the result of the death of Uncle become a reason not to shave.
this shows that the shave in the first month has nothing to do with my uncle. It is purely a folk homophonic.
the origin of the message is wrong and misunderstood. There are many similar traditions in
since the beginning of last year, I have been pregnant with many people around the world, and the answer is, "I want to have children, you have to be in the year of the horse, and it's not good to be in the year of the sheep in a year." The author continued to ask why the year of the sheep was bad, and half of them could not say it, just saying "the old man at home said." The other half of the answer is more detailed, telling me that the ancient people have a cloud "ten sheep and nine is not complete, one is sitting in front of the palace", the child of the year of the sheep, especially the girl, is easy to be lonely, and the life is hard to suffer.
there are a lot of old words like that. A man is a sheep. He has both the expression of "appearance and dignity" and the proverb of "life is a solitary man". There are more negative rumors about women than sheep. The most vicious thing is "male sheep and golden pile". Do not need to bring rations to go out; women belong to sheep, and their roots are hard.
first, in theory, this argument is rather unreliable. To judge a person's fate alone, in terms of years, is too simple and crude.
in the Chinese destiny theory of divination, the fate of human beings is to see "the eight characters of the birthday", which is only the initial parameters, and then push the hit plate and see the five lines. It is not until after a series of precise calculations that a person's trend of life can be seen.
sheep year's branch is "no", "eight words" only account for one, only because of the 1/8 data to judge the life of a lifetime, do not say half immortals, is the gods can not do. Moreover, in traditional Chinese culture, sheep are good mascots.
Yang and yang are homophones, and three sheep opening up is a very auspicious saying. Several ancient animals, such as Kirin and Yi sheep, were created in the form of sheep. The good characters, such as beauty, freshness and envy, are derived from the hieroglyphics of sheep, and even the word "Xiang".
"poetry, Zheng Feng, lambs" has also said: "the lambs are like water, they are beautiful and Hou. The son of his son, his life is unswerving. " The sheep fur here is the meaning of the moral character of Gao Jie. The Han Yuan Jia Dao Ming, written in Han Dynasty, wrote with the following words: "appropriate Hou, big lucky sheep." Take the sheep as a sincere blessing. Dong Zhongshu, the great Confucian in the Western Han Dynasty, praised the sheep in the spring and Autumn period. "The lamb has a corner and no appointment, the equipment does not use, the kind is good." he does not sing, it does not mean the meaning of killing it. He summed up the three important Confucian virtues of benevolence, righteousness and propriety, so as to elevate their image to an unequal height.
so sheep are lucky creatures to no longer be lucky. How can such a beautiful beast become a symbol of some lonely and ominous rumors among the folk? Where did it come from and how did it spread?
Ci Xi empress dowager PK Yuan Shikai
Internet and media have seen two widely circulated statements.
a theory says that "sheep is not good" spread because of Yuan Shikai.
Yuan Shikai is a sheep, born in 1859, August, fifteen in the lunar calendar. After the revolution of 1911, he became emperor in 1911, but he was unpopular. The common people hate him very much, and secretly say, "August sheep is killed by the knife." Later, this sentence was cited as a bad year for the sheep, in order to curse Yuan Shikai. This statement is unfounded.
1920, Lu Xun's third brother Zhou Jianren in the "New Youth" published articles, talking about the customs of Shaoxing, saying that the local circulation of a word, called "men's sheep appearance, women's sheep guard empty house", the sheep of the woman, born widow life, bad for the men. The reason why he told the story is that big brother Lu Xun has been affected. In
1897, Lu Xun was 16 years old, and his mother, Zhou Rui, wanted to order a marriage for him. The woman was Zhou Rui's niece and niece, called Qin Gu. When she changed eight words, Zhou Rui went back on her words, because she was afraid of her son, so she chose Zhu An's daughter-in-law again. Zhu An was born in 1878 and was a horse. Later development proved that her life was not so good, and she lived for more than forty years.
from Lu Xun's experience, at least in the late Qing Dynasty in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, there were already unlucky folk customs. Especially when choosing a mate, women who are sheep are discriminated against. And Yuan Shikai called the emperor in 1915. In time, Yuan Shikai's theory of origin does not hold water.
another way of saying is that "the year of the sheep is not good" is the curse of Ci Xi's empress dowager. The Empress Dowager Ci Xi was born in 1835 and was a sheep. Her two powerful ministers Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang belonged to the sheep. The eunuch Li Lianying beside her was also a sheep. At the same time, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the ruling class was decadent and decadent, and the foreign rehumiliation and abuse of the country, the revolutionary party took the opportunity to publicize that the people belonging to the sheep would bring disaster to the state, trying to shake the rule of the Qing court from the angle of the superstitious belief.
this statement is not accurate.
a novel is widely spread in the Qing Dynasty, called "Mirror Flower". The author, Li Ruzhen, wrote from 1795 (the first year of Jiaqing) to 1815 (twenty years of Jiaqing). In the twelfth book of this novel, "double Zai Fu talks about the pros and cons of vulgarity and pros and cons of two books," he mentioned a saying: "the life of a woman is inferior to a sheep and a tiger in the south."
Wu Xiongguang, a famous Suzhou official of his age, also talks about the folk custom of Suzhou in the book of Yi Jiang: "my hometown is more and more free from vulgarity. It can be seen that as early as the Jiaqing period, people had thought that women were inferior to sheep. At that time, Empress Dowager Ci Xi, Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and Li Lianying were not even born.
bestseller "Jin Ping Mei" influence
actually, there are earlier records.
Xu Ke, in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, told a story in the barnyard note. In the reign of Qianlong, Fan Shihang, a famous man who dismantling fortune tellers, wrote the word "Xi" to ask his life, Fan Shihang asked each other how old he was. After that, the man said, "you are finished," "you belong to the sheep", "you are from me, you are all the life of the sheep. You are destined to be lonely and not a wife." Let alone the future. Thus, in the Qianlong years of the Qing Dynasty, there was such a statement that not only was the woman's life not good, but even the man was alone.
and Li Ruzhen, a contemporary scholar Zhai Hao, wrote a popular edition of more than 5000 popular words. For example, when did "eight characters do not leave"? When did "wash dust" come out of the book first? What does "hitting wooden clock" mean? In short, it is a very interesting book. After the publication of this book, Liang Tongshu, a friend of Zhai Hao, supplemented more than 400 articles, which was added to the "straight language complement" attached to the "popular solution".
Liang Liang Shu mentioned a proverb in the book: "women are sheep and empty houses." It means that women are taboo because they are widowed. However, this common saying is that Liang Tong Shu was quoted from Jiang Yuanxi's "eyes and eyes day book" in Ming Dynasty.
this, and then the "sheep is not lucky" folk rumors pushed forward to the Ming Dynasty. The most original record of Ming Dynasty is the famous Jin Ping Mei.
the sixty-second time "Jin Ping Mei", "PAM Daoshi to send Huang Shi, Ximen Qing crying Lee bottle", Li Pinger's death, Ximen Qing asked a name of Mr. Xu's Yin and yang to book the book. Mr. Xu told Ximen Qing that his former life was a man of the royal family of Binzhou who killed a pregnant ewes, so she was punished as a woman in this world, and she was also punished for her sheep. Although her life could be expensive, she was weak and ill, and her son would die young.
from this we can see that a man has done evil in his previous life, and this life will be punished if he is a sheep. It seems that in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, it is not good to be a sheep.
"Jin Ping Mei" sets the background of the story in the Song Dynasty, but the custom of the folk customs is the details of the Ming Dynasty - the book is in the Ming Dynasty to Wanli period, then look forward, in the historical record of the Ming Dynasty, "the sheep is not good". So basically it can be locked, and this argument began to circulate in the Ming Dynasty.
traced back to the source of
but it did not solve the initial problem: why sheep? Why is it so unlucky for a woman to be a sheep?
is traced back to another source of life science.
there is a record that Zhang Jing has seen an official named Pei Pei once, and the latter asked Zhang Jingcang to let him look at his face. The meaning of this sentence is that Zhao is a restless life. Later, Zhao's red and green walls were caught and caught.
this story provides a particularly important source of clues about "sheep is not good".
"eyes have four white" popular point of view is that people's eyes are white, pupils are small, eyes turn around, and there are white around the top and bottom. This allusion comes from Wang Fu of Han Dynasty. There is a special talk about the technique, which specifically refers to: "Sunda is very white." The soldiers die. According to Wang Fu's point of view, people with more white eyes will die of battle of arms. However, this very unlucky feature does not refer specifically to women.
until the time of Zhang jingzai, there are more than one word after "four things are white": "the five husband keeps the house". It means a woman concealed five concubine in her own home. This is a situation in the eyes of the people, how promiscuous. Thus, since then, this "four white" face has become a female exclusive, specifically referred to as an eccentric woman.
, however, there are also some people who interpret "five wives and four wives" as a woman who married five husbands. If so, the first four husbands were naturally understood to be "dead." So this is still negative.
between Tang and Song Dynasty, Wang Pu, who was in the late Zhou Dynasty, said in "Tai Qing Shen Jian": "the four eyes of the sheep are white widow." This sentence not only links "four white" and "lonely widow", but also puts forward the first metaphor: the eyes of four white, like the eyes of sheep.
the Jin Dynasty, which was ruled by Yan, once appeared in a book called the first generation of the study of the previous generation of phase art. The author is Zhang Xing Jane. The influence of this book is only seen in the compilation of the four books of the whole book of the Qing Dynasty, and it can be seen in the first place in the four book of physiognomy.
in Zhang Ren Fu, Zhang Xing further explained Wang Pu's theory. He wrote, "dogs, sheep, goose and duck are counted. It means "dog eyes are dissolute", "sheep eyes bring disaster", "the eyes of goose and duck are not good."
this, the so-called "sheep eye" of the eyes of the dark and yellowish yellow, the pupil scattered and no God, four sides of white eyes, look at the people's low voice, always appear listless, like sheep in the look of people - on this feature, there is a proper noun, called "sheep mesh four white" the main poor break.
so in this textbook style, the meaning of "four white" has been fixed at last, not only referring to promiscuity, but also calling for disaster and poverty. Not only is it not auspicious, it also has a definite connection with sheep.
the super "authority" of the art world, "the God of Ma Yi", will inherit all Zhang Hangjian's theory and make a summary: "the eyes are like the sheep eye, the flesh and bone of the punishment; the sheep eyes are all white, the rape man enters the house." Women and sheep have finally become a pair of unlucky noumenon and metaphor.
sheep bad, from the face to the phase of
the Song Dynasty, the dynasty has changed frequently, and the legend of "sheep women" has been circulated until the Ming Dynasty, and some changes have taken place in the Ming Dynasty. The theory of "the eye is like a sheep's woman's life is not good".
this change is not difficult to understand.
Chinese folk are most interested in the category of things and forced analogy. In the twelve zodiac, the dragon is bound to be inexalable, the snakes are more and more extort, the cattle are stable, the horse is far away, the tiger can not be married to the sheep, avoid the mouth of the tiger. All in all, what is the characteristic of this life? What kind of characteristics does man have?
people may well follow the logical imagination that does not exist: since the eyes of the four white sheep are unlucky, then the sheep's people will inherit the unlucky sheep's eye. The so-called "female life is inferior to the sheep, and the south is a tiger." it began to circulate from this time, and lasted for two generations in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
this is a ridiculous appendage. For this, Li Ruzhen, who had a best-selling novel in the Qing Dynasty, once refuted, "people are born without years, and why do they compare to sheep?" How can you become a tiger when you live in Yin year? And those who are afraid of the world are not necessarily women of the tiger. The dragon is one of the four spirits. Why is it so precious? This is the ignorance of the ignorant people, making this fallacy, and often the readers are also affected by the absurdity. As it happens, Li Ruzhen himself belongs to the sheep.
"red sheep robbery"
an outbreak of the late Qing Dynasty is enough to change the fate of the Chinese destiny, and to give this statement to help the flames, so that it in the influence of the more rooted in the folk. That is the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement.
swept the half of the Qing court, which profoundly affected the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of the late Qing Dynasty so large that the "Zhu Geliang" was counted as a misfortune, "red sheep robbery".
China takes ten days and twelve Earthly Branches as the annals of rotation, and every sixty years is one. Fortune tellers believe that there are two associated years, especially unlucky. The five rows of C, D and F are fire, and the fire is red, not the year of the sheep. Therefore, this doom is also called "red sheep robbery".
in order to prove his theory, he statistics that Liu Bang broke down, Wang Mang usurped the throne, and five careless. The great events of emperor Tian, the rebellion of an Shi, and the shame of Jing Kang occurred in the years of the year of the Chinese Communist Party or in the year of Ding. '
and do not say that there are many unrest in other years, except in the noon of the day, and the year of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in 1851. Some people said that the two leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing, and "Hong Yang Hongyang, not red sheep".
this is far fetched now seems absurd, but at that time, people all took the same thing. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty set up an anti Qing Dynasty. The slogan was: "the haze of the Vientiane can not be opened, the red sheep rob the day, and the man is on the top of the sky." It means, "we must learn from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and vow to turn things around."
"red sheep robbery" has the word "sheep". People think of the old tradition of "sheep is not good". The more they think about it, the more reasonable they feel. As a result, rumors spread more and more widely. Those rumors about Ci Xi, Yuan Shikai and other sheep were circulated on the basis of red sheep robbery. Mr. Lu Xun's choice of spouse is also one of the results of this superstition.
this can be seen, the "sheep eye four white, the rape of the house" such as the face, or the so-called "sheep year should not be born", "ten sheep and nine not complete, one sitting in front of the palace", "La moon sheep guard empty house" and so on, is purely a folk custom. The pursuit of its origin is nothing but the erroneous falsehood of ancient techniques.
some folk customs do not matter. For example, "the uncle who shaved his head in the first month of the month" does not shave his head in the first month. However, the erroneous conception of "sheep is not lucky" has not been touched by ancient times until now, and how many women's tragic lives have been mistaken. Today, the science of prosperity, if there is no doubt, if there is no doubt, to avoid the sheep year born son, or refuse to marry a sheep woman, that is really a fool, the victims of harm.