The question from a netizen is: What does it mean to give a stick when the Feng Shui master is leaving?
The simple understanding and answer is: "Push your hands open the road to prosperity, and you will defeat the poor person with one stick." This is a couplet written by modern people based on the "customs", "traditions" of ancient people and combined with the actual life of modern people. There is a stick in it. This stick has the meaning of driving away poverty!
"No matter how poor you are, you need to have a dog-beating stick", this is an article published by modern person Wu Pengfei. This metaphor seems to come from the mouth of a famous general in the older generation. This general shows very funny, vividly and vividly how important it is to have nuclear weapon as a big country like us! This is not a stick in the general sense!
When the Feng Shui master left, he gave a stick, which means: I gave you a dog-beating stick, and I want you to be careful, prevent evil dogs from hurting people, and prevent villains from plotting against them!
stick is a commonly used self-defense weapon for dog-beating by country people.
The dog attacks people with an obvious characteristic: it never attacks from the front, and always attacks suddenly from behind. Another characteristic of a dog attacking a human is that it generally does not make a barking sound. After the attacker succeeds, it leaves quickly. A few dogs start to make a barking sound after they succeed or fail.
Therefore, people in rural areas have the most famous oral phrase: "Dogs that don't bark, be prepared"! When you arrive at the door of someone else's house, those barking dogs are much less likely to attack people! Dogs that don’t bark must be careful, that is the real dog that bites people!
Wolf Dog attacks people, and generally does not attack from the back, but from the front. This is an essential characteristic difference between wolf dogs and ordinary dogs!
Feng Shui master who knows the gossip of " Yijing ", " Plum Blossom Yishu " and "Zhou Palm", a stick also has a function for others: it is to see how others pick up this stick and how to put this stick, test other people's way of being and acting, and then observe and predict other people's recent fortune trends through various small actions of picking this stick.
If someone else's recent fortune is going well, the Feng Shui master will be at ease to carry out all kinds of necessary Feng Shui activities in other people's homes.
If you find that others have bad luck in the recent past, or even disasters and dangers, Feng Shui activities will definitely not go too smoothly. Therefore, you will pay attention to everything. If you find something wrong, before leaving, the Feng Shui master will leave a special message to remind others to pay attention to. The greatest possibility of Feng Shui master, that is, to do this step. Some particularly serious natural disasters and evils are sometimes caused by God’s will, and it is by no means possible to save people!
"The Story of the Door Stick"! The legend of
The door-blocking stick takes place at the time of the alternation of Yuan and Ming dynasties. There are roughly three different versions. The basic structure and elements of these three different versions are actually the same, but there are differences in some details.
First of all, let’s talk about the first vague version of the legend. This legend recorded in " Chinese Folk Story Complete Book " is a story learned from the mouth of an old man named Qin Mingchuan.
According to legend, in the late Yuan Dynasty, there was a great commander who did not indicate who he was. He was extremely cruel. Wherever he passed, there was bloody storm and the people were in panic all day long. One day, the general led the army to massacre a village. He saw a woman running with a young child on her back, then throwing the young child down, carrying a big child on her back and continuing to run for her life. The handsome man was puzzled, and he caught the woman and scolded her as a fool. The young child could not carry him, so why should he carry the older child? The woman explained that the young child was her own child, and the older child was not her own child. If she carried the younger child back, she would be despised by people, saying that she was a stepmother, so she could only abandon her own child.
The Grand Marshal was moved by the woman's words and promised to let her go. The Grand Marshal told the woman that when the army massacres, he only needed to put a wooden stick at the gate, and his army would not harass her.After returning to the village, the woman made a splash about this matter. As a result, the whole village put a stick at the gate. When the general's army came in, he saw that the whole village had put a stick at the gate and retreated without any offense.
The second version occurs when the Yuan and Ming dynasties alternate. According to legend, Zhu Yuanzhang once sent Hu Dahai and Chang Yuchun to Shandong to attack Mongolian , and ordered that all people hang "southern signs" at their doorsteps indicate that they are good people. The families hang "north signs" are even against the people, and they will be beheaded. The people were very smart. After they knew about it, when Hu Dahai and Chang Yuchun came, every family hung a "South sign" and when Hu Dahai and Chang Yuchun left, they hung a "North sign" again.
But not long after this incident, it was reported. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and sent Hu Dahai and Chang Yuchun to lead a large army to massacre the people. At this time, a strong man was running with an old lady on his back. After being intercepted by the officers and soldiers, the strong man knelt down and begged for mercy, demanding that only one strong man be killed and not hurt the strong man's mother. The strong man's filial piety moved everyone, so Hu Dahai and Chang Yuchun let the strong man go and told the strong man to escape the disaster by putting a stick at the door of his house. The subsequent plot is similar to the first version.
The last third version directly skipped the general who led the troops and pushed Zhu Yuanzhang to the front. It describes that in order not to let the scandal of Zhu Yuanzhang leak out of a village, Zhu Yuanzhang planned to clean up the village. However, there was a person who was kind to Zhu Yuanzhang in this village. So Zhu Yuanzhang told the man that on New Year's Eve, put a stick at the door to escape the disaster of being killed.
It is difficult for people today to verify the authenticity and sequence of these legends, but these three versions of the stories took place during the turbulent and riots of the Yuan and Ming dynasties, which probably reflects a certain social psychology. During the Yuan and Ming dynasties, riots broke out everywhere, the people died, starved to kill white bones, and built mountains. In this turbulent social context, it is understandable that the people are eager to find a spiritual sustenance, and putting a stick can avoid disasters. This may reflect the people's desire to get rid of the troubled times and desire to govern the world in that era. It can be seen that the door-blocking stick is given the effect of seeking blessings and refuge by the people. This connotation has been passed down and has been continuously enriched by later generations, and finally formed the custom of door-blocking sticks that people can see now.
In addition, the educational significance of these stories is very conspicuous, filial piety and repaying kindness... are the universal values of ancient Chinese society. Filial piety and repaying kindness are integrated into these stories, making these stories have a wider social significance in the process of their spread.
A stick given to netizens by Feng Shui master should find a reasonable answer from the above analysis and story!
