For more than two thousand years, China's aesthetic taste for women has always been virtuous and gentle as the mainstream, and it also calls untouched women a shrew, which is more like a "tigress".
"Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" specifically describes how a ferocious woman as fierce as a tiger caused a wealthy family of poetry and rituals to destroy her family.
The story begins with a scholar named Yang Wanshi, who married the daughter of the Yin family as his wife at the order of his parents.
The parents' orders and the media's words, such a family was considered happy in ancient times, but the problems soon emerged.
Yang Wanshi usually speaks a little wrong at home, so Yin hits him with a whip; after Yang Wanshi's mother passed away, only his father in his sixties was left, and Yin has no intention of being filial to the old man at all, so he lets him sleep in the woodshed, wearing the servant's clothes, and not give him a full meal.
Therefore, Yang Wanshi and his brother could only secretly give the things to his father and dared not care about anything.
Later, because Yin did not give birth to a child, he took a concubine to Yang Wanshi - Wang.
When Wang was five months pregnant, Yin was so angry that she took off Wang's clothes and whipped her with a whip until she was beaten to a miscarriage.
Even so, Yang Wanshi had no choice but to hide aside and cry.
Originally a good family was destroyed by a shrew, so I often heard the old man say the saying "A woman does not marry three times, sheep tiger and four whites."
A ferocious woman as a tiger is terrible to a family, and it makes sense not to marry her. However, this also implicates women with the zodiac sign of tiger. They believe that women born in the year of the tiger will be as fierce as tigers, causing trouble for the family.
But why do you say that "sheep" and "four whites" cannot be married? What does "Four White" mean? Let's take a look together below.
"Sheep"
Sheep is a kind of gentle and quiet animal. When it comes to humans, it represents a kind of docile and weak woman.
Their personalities are completely opposite to those of women with "tiger" personality, but people do not agree with it. What is the reason?
In fact, here, "sheep" does not mean being soft in character, but being weak and thin in a woman's body, or referring to the woman's zodiac sign.
First of all, let’s talk about the first situation - a woman is weak and thin.
In ancient times, people lived in farming society for a long time, so they paid the most attention to the inheritance of family incense. If a woman gets sick and gets sick, she naturally feels that she is not easy to give birth to.
Then, under the traditional concept of "there are three kinds of unfilial piety, and no descendants are the greatest", even the marriage between nobles may be dissatisfied with "sheep" women.
In addition, for small peasant families in ancient times, strong women were a very important labor force. They can go to the fields to work and do housework. Those women in poor health will not only not be able to help supplement their household income, but will also become a burden in their family.
Even in today's society, for the sake of future family quality, the country is still advocating premarital physical examinations. If there is a major disease, the other party will be convicted of "marriage fraud", and the marriage certificate can be regarded as invalid.
So, according to this explanation, it still makes sense to say that a woman cannot marry. After all, put your heart in mind. Life is not "playing house". In addition to love, there is also elusive humanity and reality.
Next, let’s talk about the second situation - women born in the Year of the Sheep cannot marry.
Many people think that people born in the Year of the Sheep have a bad fate, and there is even an old saying among the people that "Nine out of ten sheep are incomplete". Even in the extremely classic TV series " Dream of Red Mansions " filmed by later generations, the screenwriter also arranged for Lin Daiyu to say a line from "Aunt, I am a Sheep" .
. What's more, the sheep born in winter are particularly miserable. Because sheep feed on grass, everything is gloomy in winter, so where is there grass?
So, when extended to people, she believes that she will have a bumpy life and a bad life. Therefore, women born in the Year of the Sheep cannot marry.
From this perspective, the first situation still makes some sense, but the second situation is that some feudal superstitious ideas are included.
"Four Whites"
"Four Whites" refers to a woman with "Four Whites". Such a woman has too many white eyes and the eyeballs in her eyes look very small. This kind of eyes are not very good-looking to modern people, let alone the ancients who have "beautiful eyes" as their aesthetic? However, the ancients added another crime to it.
The ancients believed that women with these eyes were a kind of husband-rewarding appearance. If there is an ignorant man who brings them home, he will bring a plague god to his home. They will not only make a fuss, but will also bring bloody disasters to their husbands.
At the end of the year, there was a photo book called "Ma Yi Shen Xiang". This book is very popular, and its feature is to judge whether the future fate is good or bad based on people's appearance.
And in such a widely circulated book, "The sheep's eyes are four white, and the adulterer enters the house" , this not only adds insult to the woman with four white eyes, but also a fatal blow to the woman with the sheep's zodiac sign.
. Whether it is right to choose a mate based on the zodiac sign and face are given by parents and cannot be controlled by themselves. Moreover, radish . Each has its own love, which cannot be a reason for marriage.
However, once people associate these with human destiny, it seems ridiculous. Is it true that
written in the book? is not the case. Is the Pan Jinlian in "Water Margin" with a pair of four rolling eyes? The noble woman from Hongnong Yang's is also one of the four beauties. Yang Guifei may not have a pair of four rolling eyes, right?
From this we can see that the saying "Four White" women cannot marry is the dregs in feudal thought.
Think about it again. If you cannot marry a sheep because you are unable to marry a woman born in the year of the snake, you should understand that you cannot marry a woman born in the year of the snake. Because snakes, as animals, hibernate in winter, do not eat or drink, are also sinister and cunning animals in cultural connotations, which not only conforms to the zodiac speculation of the zodiac sign that the sheep will have a ill-fated and fierce personality than tigers.
However, since ancient times, there has been no common saying that women cannot marry "snakes" and there is even a love story about "snakes" like " White Snake Yongzhen Leifeng Tower ".
In fact, the ancients believed that the "four white eyes" had different faces, and believed that the two zodiac signs of "sheep" and "tiger" were not good. These are all unfounded assumptions.
Throughout history, how many women with four eyes have been rolled, and how many women with sheep and tiger are there? Are their destiny trajectories the same as what the photo book says? Because face and zodiac sign deny a person is undoubtedly a dross in feudal thought.
Conclusion
As society progresses, people's thoughts will become more and more open. When it comes to choosing a marriage partner, people are becoming more and more rational, and zodiac signs, faces, or health should not be obstacles between two people in love.
After all, for most people, compared with these, the way of getting along with men and women, as well as their "three views" and temperament are more important.
What do you think about this?
