Since ancient times, people have pursued doing auspicious things and saying auspicious words, and generally avoid words with bad homophonic sounds. For example, the homophony of "mulberry" is "mourning", so most people will not plant mulberry trees in front of their doors; and the homophony of "clock" is "end", so no one will give others clocks.
Among numbers, "four" is probably the most unpopular word. Many people think that "four" means "death", which has a bad meaning and can bring misfortune to people. Therefore, most people do not want or like to use this number.
So, what is the meaning of "four" that we don't like? What are the opinions? Today, ergonomics will take you to understand.
1. "Four, a negative number"
The ancients called odd numbers yang numbers and even numbers yin numbers. For example, two, four, six and eight are yin numbers, but six and eight are loved by modern people. Because we all pursue beauty, hope we have good intentions and good luck, and are also afraid of unlucky things.
So we hate "four", even hate and deliberately avoid it. The most common way is to skip the numbers containing "four". For example, in floor numbers, the 4th floor will be coded as the 5th floor; in some hospitals, floors, consultation numbers or patient numbers, etc., should avoid containing "4" as much as possible.
But in fact, the numbers themselves do not have any good or bad luck, most of them are people's psychological effects.
2. "4, the lucky number abroad"
The Western world calls this taboo in the East " phobia ". Similarly, the Western world's taboo on the number "13" is also called "phobia." Thirteen syndromes”.
Their 13th floor is not called the 13th floor, but something else, and the number "4" is regarded as a lucky number abroad. It can be seen that the fear of a certain number is the same phenomenon.
3. "Four, also has a beautiful meaning"
In fact, whether it is "4" or "13", it is just a number. The key still depends on how we understand it. In our Chinese culture, "four" actually has a very beautiful meaning and implication.
In the natural season, there are the changes of the four seasons; among the flowers, there are the four gentlemen of plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum; in ancient Chinese mythology, there are the four mythical beasts; and the four happy meatballs are also among our Chinese folk A famous dish...
"Four" is tabooed by us, but it is everywhere. In fact, whether we avoid or pursue more auspicious things, in general this is also a culture.
I hope we won’t be overly obsessed or overly exclusive, and it’s best not to bring unnecessary trouble to a happy and harmonious life.
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