Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Weather forecast - It's superstition to see the sky through salt, right?

It's superstition to see the sky through salt, right?

An elder led the villagers to travel day and night to transport salt to a certain place and change it into barley for the winter.

one night, they camped out in the wilderness and the starry sky was shining. The elders still used the method handed down from generations of ancestors to take out three pieces of salt and put them into the fire to predict the weather changes in the mountains. Everyone is waiting for the "weather forecast" of the elderly. If you hear the sound of "cracking" of salt in the fire, it is a sign of good weather. If there is no response, it means that the weather is about to get worse and the wind and rain will come at any time. ..........

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The elder looks serious, because the salt blocks are silent in the fire, and he thinks it is unlucky, and advocates going on at once after dawn. However, another young man in the clan thinks that "looking at the sky with salt" is too superstitious and opposes a hasty departure. The next afternoon, as expected, the weather changed suddenly, and it was stormy. Only then did the young people who insisted on leaving late believe the experience of the elderly. In fact, there are scientific reasons for the elderly to do so. Whether the salt block makes a sound in the fire is related to the humidity in the air. When the wind and rain come, the humidity is high and the salt block is damp, so it is naturally dumb when it is put into the fire.

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On the contrary, the salt blocks will make a noise. Young people look down on the experience of the old people and think that they are outdated and useless. In fact, some people's experience is like sea salt. No matter how old it is, it is still a kind of crystallization, and it has the memory of the sea. If people lack it, they can't survive. That is to say, without the experience of our predecessors, we will still live in primitive society and live an animal-like life. However, living on experience, always putting on an experienced shelf everywhere, and liking to drive old cars and take the old road, will only be eliminated by society.