There is an old saying: "Five trees enter the house, but they are defeated." What is the truth? Which five trees do you mean?

The Chinese nation has a history and culture of 5,000 years, and countless working people have summed up many profound truths in social practice. The words are rough, but not rough, and every sentence is true. In ancient times, there was a saying that "five trees enter the house, and the family breaks down." What happened?

The crystallization of the wisdom of working people

As the saying goes, true knowledge comes from labor. Through thousands of years of hard work, the working people in our country have summed up many profound truths that are easy to understand. All the knowledge we can learn by sitting in the classroom today is the theory that predecessors got from their curiosity and practice about the world and life without knowing anything, which gave the younger generation less detours. For example, "All things must come to an end" tells us that one day, we will meet friends in mutual appreciation. By observing the stars at night, we can guess that the weather tomorrow is real.

However, there are also some bad habits that we need to get rid of in time today, such as ancient slavery, hierarchy, three wives and four concubines for men, and foot-binding for women, all of which persecute women and working people. Today, with the rapid development of science and technology, we can easily identify some superstitious behaviors, such as witches treating diseases and witchcraft cheating money, but there are still many proverbs worthy of our memory and inheritance. For example, "five trees enter the house, and the family breaks down."

China was a family-based survival group in ancient times. China people like to visit relatives and friends, and having a prosperous family is the glory of the whole family. Therefore, China people pay special attention to the construction of houses. Even today, the biggest ideal of ordinary young people is to buy a house. The house is the most important place in people's life, a place to rest after hard work, and a place to enjoy time with family. When building a house, the old people will be extremely taboo to plant five trees in the yard.

What five trees do "five trees" refer to?

These five trees are cypress, pine, mulberry, pear and Sophora japonica. First, pine trees and cypresses. The ancients attached great importance to the funeral custom, thinking that people would go to another place to live after death, so there were many funerary objects when they were buried, and they were also very particular about choosing the location of the grave.

It must be a comfortable, quiet, safe and sparsely populated place, and many trees will be planted around it to keep out the shade, among which pine and cypress are the most common. Because pine and cypress have a long life and are easy to survive, people don't have to live in Dali all the time, and they don't bear fruit, let alone attract bugs and fruit thieves to disturb the peace of the dead.

Therefore, it is taboo to plant pine and cypress trees in your yard. Because pines and cypresses are often planted in graves or in the wild, there is a gloomy atmosphere in the cognitive habits of the ancients. If you plant two kinds of trees in your yard and go to the toilet in the cool at night, it's hard to imagine the gloomy atmosphere. It seems that pine and cypress were planted with the dead. The ancients were most afraid of talking about death before they died, and they couldn't wait to stay away from everything that died. Of course, they won't plant two pines and cypresses in the yard, which will only increase their troubles.

Followed by mulberry and pear trees, which is related to the cultural cognition of the ancients. The ancients liked to pay attention to the meaning brought by the homophony of words, such as the homophony of "sang" and "mourning". The ancients were the most taboo to mention funeral before their death, and they were unwilling to provoke funeral. It seems that they can live a long and safe life away from these things, which is the desire for longevity and health. Naturally, they won't plant mulberry trees in the yard.

The same is true of pear trees. "Pear" and "parting" are homophonic, and the ancients were also afraid of parting. Although all parties must end, it is painful to be separated from family. Whether it is separation or death, it is a blow to a family. Meeting is beautiful, separation is sad, so it is certainly good to reduce separation. The trees in the yard bow their heads every day. Trees related to separation will naturally not be planted, and watching them all day will only increase sadness.

Finally, there are Sophora japonica. Sophora japonica has no homophonic words, but its Chinese characters are left "wood" and right "ghost", which seems to mean that there are ghosts at the edge of the tree. Of course, the ancients didn't plant Sophora japonica at home, scaring themselves that there was a ghost by the tree. Living at home is not only a comfort, but naturally it will not add bad things to the home, even if it is homophonic. It is the habit of the ancients to draw a word "good" in everything.

Moreover, Sophora japonica attracts many insects because of its special physique and the smell of leaves. In summer, the trees are crawling with insects, and so are the trees. If you really plant it at home, it will bring a lot of inconvenience to your daily life. Not only does it need to be cleaned up in time, too many bugs may attract birds, and the singing of birds is also uncomfortable. Pulling feces all over the hospital is not good for family hygiene. If children at home don't know how to play with bugs, they may get infected with germs and cause allergies.

Therefore, trees such as Sophora japonica, mulberry, pear, pine and cypress, which are not suitable for planting at home, have their own reasons. Whether there is scientific basis or not, the life experience of our ancestors for thousands of years also provides us with reference. As the saying goes, if you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer. I don't mean to listen to what the old people say, but I want to express that people with rich life experience are more cautious when judging some things, rather than acting rashly like young people.

But some young people feel that they are the new generation, and the older generation in the new era is too vulgar to accept their opinions. In the eyes of the new generation, the old people are pedantic and old-fashioned, but they are not. When they are old, they will find that the old people's words are not rough, and most people still follow the same trajectory and live regularly.

Other common trees

In addition to the five kinds of trees mentioned above, poplars and willows are also taboos for every household. Because poplars grow every summer, poplars are very light and will float everywhere when blown by the wind. Every tree will produce many poplars, which will last for several days. Poplar cotton is a kind of cotton wadding, which is easy to burn. Naughty children pick up lighters and light poplar piles, which often cause fires. Willow, too, grows catkin cotton in summer, which affects environmental sanitation. Moreover, wicker is generally a common prop for funeral activities. In Tomb-Sweeping Day, it is often inserted on both sides of the gate to ward off evil spirits, so it is generally not planted at home.

Besides, people don't plant apricot trees at home, because "apricot" and "xing" are homophonic, and "xing" is the most likely word to form "xing". If apricot trees are flourishing, they will attract people to be rich and auspicious. The so-called "apricot people are not prosperous, people are not prosperous", and naturally no one will plant good luck in the yard.

There are trees that should not be planted at home, and there are trees that people are willing to plant. Buttonwood is a tree that every family wants to plant, so you can feel lucky. Why? It originally originated from an old saying that "the phoenix falls on the branches of the phoenix tree". If you plant a buttonwood tree in the yard, it will attract the phoenix. Who doesn't want it?