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There will be three carts of wine in a lifetime,
Whoever drinks it first will leave first.
There are ten barns of food in a lifetime,
Whoever eats it first will be the one who crows.
If you have ten thousand yuan in your life,
whoever earns it first will be finished.
In folk songs, a person’s life is determined.
A person has three cars of wine in his lifetime. This car is a quantifier. It may be told to people that there is a total number of drinks a person can drink in a lifetime, and whoever finishes his three carts first will leave first. In Xixia dialect, the end of life is called walking, which has the same meaning as the popular saying of walking all the way in recent years. Three carts of wine may be three carts for heavy drinkers, and three small carts for light drinkers. No matter who has wine, he should drink it slowly and leisurely, and don't finish his wine in advance. The folk song says that whoever finishes drinking first will leave first. This seems to be very ruthless, but in fact it is also very affectionate. The power of ballads lies in using the simplest language to give people a kind reminder.
warehouse is also a quantifier. In the old days, most people in Xixia used adobe to store grain in an earthen warehouse. That earthen warehouse probably held three thousand, which was enough to feed one person for ten years. To be one hundred years old is to eat ten earthen barns of food. This ten-earth warehouse is the amount of food a person has for a lifetime. Whoever finishes his ten-earth warehouse of food first will leave this world. The Xixia dialect calls people's death clanging. Suddenly someone said: So-and-so is in trouble, do you know? This means that so-and-so died unexpectedly, or that so-and-so died when he shouldn't have. The dialect of Dangrang is a bit humorous, a bit joking, and has a bit of Xixia dialect's wise and foolish feeling.
How much money a person has in his lifetime is called rich, which probably means a family with a million dollars. 1,000 small copper coins, tied with a rope, are the traditional money of ancient China. Someone has calculated that one thousand yuan is equivalent to ten thousand yuan in today's money. If a family has ten thousand yuan, it means ten thousand yuan. With 100 million yuan, the family will have a millionaire. Folk songs say that a person has ten thousand yuan in his lifetime, but it is not good to earn one hundred million back quickly. Whoever earns back 10,000 yuan first will be finished first. This folk saying is a bit red-eyed. But it is not easy for a person to earn back 100 million. There are many people who have struggled to earn even 1 million in their lifetime. So when someone was investigated and punished for 100 million, many people were happy, as if this folk song had come true.
What this ballad says is not the lightness of life, but the weight of life. The lightness of life is unbearable, and the weight of life is even more unbearable for a person. I heard this ballad while drinking and it really shocked me. When I was trying to drink as much as I could, I suddenly thought of the three carts of wine I had drunk in my life. I don’t know if I had drunk two carts or two and a half carts now, so I didn’t want to drink as much as I could. There are three carts of wine in a lifetime. Whoever drinks first will leave first. This folk saying is a truth. I hope everyone who drinks hard can remember this truth.
