"It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married". Mother means mother, or girl?


There has never been a very authoritative statement about the origin of "It's going to rain, and my mother wants to get married".

"It's going to rain, my mother wants to get married" is a false rumor of "It's going to rain, and the grain will be released"?


▲▲Because of the great man's quotation, it is well known to women and children

On September 13, 1971, Lin Biao defected by plane. It was about to fly out of the border. Premier Zhou Enlai asked Chairman Mao whether he wanted to intercept Lin Biao's plane. Mao Zedong said calmly: "It's going to rain, and my mother wants to get married, so let him go."


"It's going to rain, my mother wants to get married", which is used to describe something that is bound to happen and cannot be stopped.

This folk proverb is known to women and children because Chairman Mao once quoted it, but there is no authoritative account of the origin of this sentence.

Does the "mother" in "Mother Wants to Marry" refer to "mother (mother)" or "girl"? There is no conclusion either.

There are also people who think that "if it rains, my mother wants to get married" is a false rumor that "if it rains, the food will be released".


"When it's going to rain, my mother wants to get married." Where does the folk proverb quoted by Chairman Mao come from? It is said that the relevant literature department did not find it for a long time, and even went to Chairman Mao's hometown in Hunan to investigate, and the local people said that they did not have this saying.


▲▲Where is the code from?

Later, people found it in the books that Chairman Mao had read and analyzed it from "He Dian".

Several authoritative media published articles mentioning this.

"Mao Zedong, a great "reader" published by " Xinhua Daily" and reprinted by People's Daily Online (the author is Chen Jin, a researcher at the Literature Research Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China), published by "Party History Expo", Articles such as "He Dian, a strange book recommended by Mao Zedong to his son" (author Hu Changming), reprinted by People's Daily Online, all state that the source of "Mother Wants to Marry" is the book "He Dian".

"He Dian" is Qing Dynasty Qianlong, Jiaqing , a satirical comic novel written by Shanghai talented Zhang Nanzhuang in Wu dialect.

Mao Zedong read "He Dian" at the latest in 1941, when he had asked someone to bring some books from China for his two sons in Moscow, among them "He Dian".

According to the book "Recollections of Wang Dongxing: The Struggle between Mao Zedong and Lin Biao's Counter-Revolutionary Clique" (published by Contemporary China Press, 2010): At the end of July 1971, Mao Zedong recommended to the Political Bureau of the Central Committee a late Qing novel "He Dian", especially He pointed out four sentences in the book: "There is no good medicine in the mouth, there is no medicine for a deadly disease, and a medicine doctor does not die, and a pair of empty hands meet the king of hell." There is no such thing as "it's going to rain, my mother wants to get married", there is just a related story about a widow who insists on remarrying.

Original text——

Six things ghost said: "Go ahead and talk, I just don't know what your brother thinks?"As the old saying goes: the first marriage depends on the pro, the second marriage depends on the body. I've made up my mind, and he can't stop me. "Liu Shi Gui finished drinking, thank you for getting up.

The meaning of this paragraph is that if the widow female ghost wants to get married, she will ask the neighbor Liu Shi Gui to discuss it. Liu Shi Gui said that she does not know whether the widow's younger brother will agree to it. , the female ghost replied, "As the old saying goes, the first marriage depends on the parents, the second marriage depends on the body, and the younger brother cannot stop it." But he has the final say in his second remarriage.

Later, the younger brother of the female ghost came to intervene and said: "Even if you want to remarry, you should choose a gentleman on the beam, why do you want to marry that Liu Mang thief? "

The female ghost replied: "There are too many people in the world who have lost their wives and left to marry. Where are the gentlemen on the beam?" This is my own will, and I don't want you to be meddlesome. "


In "He Dian", the widow remarries, and she is only worried about her own younger brother (the child's uncle), not her own son. The widow and ghost have a son, but he is still at the age of a child who is not awake. There is no problem of interfering with mothers.

This remarriage story in "He Dian", and the old saying that "the first marriage depends on the parent, the second marriage depends on the body", is the epitome of "When it rains, the mother wants to marry".

It feels like a big jump, at least not the direct source.



▲▲The Qing Dynasty "Wuxiayanlian" has _strong14 According to the current research by experts,The ancient book that really remembers the folk proverb "The sky is going to rain, the mother wants to marry" is the "Wuxia Yanlian" written by Wang Youguang in the Qing Dynasty.


"Wu Xia Yanlian" Volume 2 says: "The sky is going to rain, and the mother wants to marry: the sky is pure yang without yin, and if it rains, then the yang seeks yin; If you want to marry someone, then yin seeks yang. If the arrows go to the ground, if the pulp is rotten, the reason is the same, and the situation is the same."


Wuxia, generally refers to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Wu.

rain, Wu language and southern dialects express as "falling rain".


"Wu Xia Yanlian" in four volumes, the original edition of Gengchen Laotieshanfang in the 25th year of the Jiaqing period in Qing Dynasty, Tongzhi The supplementary edition of the author's descendants in the 12th year of Guiyou. The age of the book is similar to that of "He Dian".

From the "Wuxia Yanlian", we can know that this is a folk proverb that existed in the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty in the Wu-speaking area of ​​Jiangsu and Zhejiang.


▲▲An unreliable folklore


There is a folklore circulating on the Internet about the origin of "It's going to rain, and the mother is going to marry."


It is said that there was a mother in ancient times who was a widow for many years and raised her son Zhu Yaozong. Zhu Yaozong was born intelligent, and he was excellent in academics under the training of his mentor Zhang Wenju, and he went to Beijing to catch up with the exam and won the champion. Seeing his talent, the emperor recruited him as his consort. Zhu Yaozong's upstart returned to his hometown. Before leaving, he made a memorial to the emperor to set up a chastity arch for his mother.

Zhu Yaozong did not know that his mother had long been in love with Zhu Yaozong's mentor Zhang Wenju, and the two agreed to marry after Zhu Yaozong got married.


When Zhu Yaozong returned to his hometown and talked about setting up a chastity memorial arch,Mother Zhu expressed her intention to remarry Zhang Wenju. Zhu Yaozong thought that it was inappropriate for his mother to remarry, because the emperor's approval had already been obtained for the establishment of the Chastity Arch.


The mother and son are at odds. Mother Zhu couldn't help but let out a long sigh, "Let's just leave it to fate", and proposed a bet to see the will of God. If the weather continues to be sunny tomorrow, the mother will not remarry; if it rains tomorrow, the son should not stop her.


Seeing that the weather was fine, Zhu Yaozong nodded in agreement. Who knew that the night was overcast and cloudy, and it rained heavily after dawn.

Zhu's mother said to her son: "It's going to rain, my mother wants to get married, and God's will cannot be violated!"


This story was published and forwarded by contemporary newspapers and websites, and there is no early documentary record. The story itself has too many traces of fabrication, and there is no clear age and region, which is not credible.


▲▲The word "mother" has multiple meanings


When it comes to "mother", we are used to thinking that it refers to "mother" (mother).

Actually, in ancient times, mother and mother were originally two words. Mother is used to refer to mother. "Niang" generally refers to young women, mostly young girls, and later refers to mothers instead of "Niang".

It is not surprising that the generations are reversed. The ancient "lord" refers to the father's generation, such as "grandfather" in "Mulan Ci".

In Japanese, the word "mother" means "daughter", which may retain the original Chinese meaning of the Tang and Song Dynasties in ancient China.

In today's spoken words, "Niang" still retains the meaning of a young woman,Like a girl.

The new version of " Modern Chinese Dictionary " has three definitions for "mother":


1. Spoken language, mother, mother, mother.

2. Call older or older married women, aunts and aunts.

3. Young women. Fisherman, bride.

In short, "mother" refers to both mothers, elders, and young women.

In some local dialects, "Niang" means young woman. For example, "Niangwa" in the Xiangyang dialect of Hubei today refers to a "little unmarried girl"; the Ningbo dialect of Zhejiang refers to a girl as a "little girl".

It is precisely because "mother" refers to a girl that the ancient folks used the word "mother" to name girls. For example, in the novel "Three Words and Two Pai" in the Ming Dynasty, Du Shiniang was only in her teens, but she had the nickname "Sheniang". In the Ming Dynasty, there was another opera figure named Du Liniang.


▲▲ "Mother" in "Mother wants to marry", is it more reasonable to refer to "girl"?


"It's going to rain, my mother wants to get married." "Mother" refers to a mother or a daughter, and both can mean "nothing to do but should not stop", but both The connotations are not exactly the same. The former emphasizes "nothing to do", while the latter emphasizes "as it should be".


In ancient times, it was inevitable for a girl to marry, a man should marry, and a woman should marry. This is a natural law or development law of "yin and yang", just like "the sky is going to rain", do not The will of man is transferred.


But the remarriage of widows in ancient times was not inevitable. Especially during the Ming and Qing Dynasties,Although widows are not prohibited from remarrying, women are encouraged to observe festivals, and the imperial court has introduced policies such as taxation and care, erecting chastity memorial arches, and Shang County Chronicle History Books, etc., to encourage widows to observe festivals.


The legend and allusion of the champion man and his widow mother mentioned earlier emphasizes the "luck" arranged by God, rather than inevitability. It just happens to be raining, and God has allowed it, so don't stop it.

Going back to the explanation in "Wu Xia Yanlian": "Heaven, pure yang without yin, if it rains, then yang seeks yin; mother, lonely yin has no yang, if you want to marry, then yin seeks yang. It's like the pulp is rotten, the reason is the same, and the situation is the same."

This book explains the inevitability of "the sky is going to rain, and the mother wants to marry" from the perspective of yang seeking yin and yin seeking yang. The "mother" here should refer to a girl. God's eyes will rain for a long time, and her daughter will marry when she grows up. This is inevitable.

Similar proverbs are: The big tree divides the tree, and the child divides the family.

▲▲"Mother wants to get married" is a false rumor that "food wants to be released"?


Even if "mother" refers to a girl, rain and marriage are two irrelevant things. Originally, there is an old saying, "Men get married, girls get married". It's very clear and profound. Some people suggested that this is actually a false rumor. The original proverb was "the sky will rain, and the food will be dismantled", which was originally a military proverb. The meaning is very clear, it is going to rain, and the food and grass will be escorted to the barracks.

"Food wants to leave the camp", and later the dialect read it as "Mother wants to get married".


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