Look at the sky with salt

Some practices, seemingly superstitious and unreasonable, are actually the crystallization of experience and wisdom.

There is a story: the old man led the villagers to travel day and night, transporting salt to a certain place and replacing it with barley for the winter. That night, they camped in the wilderness and the stars shone. The elders used the method handed down by their ancestors to take out three pieces of salt and throw them into the campfire to predict the weather changes in the mountains. . . . . . . . . . Everyone is waiting for the old man's "weather forecast": if you hear the "click" sound of salt in the fire, it is a sign of good weather; If there is no sound, it means that the weather is about to get worse and the wind and rain will come at any time.

The elderly look serious because salt has no sound in the fire. He thought it was unlucky and advocated that it should be done immediately after dawn. However, another young man in the tribe thinks that "salt looks up to heaven" is superstition and opposes leaving in a hurry.

The next afternoon, as expected, the weather merged and it was snowy. Young people who insist on leaving late experience the wisdom of the elderly. In fact, according to today's scientific explanation, the elderly are also right. Whether the salt block makes sound in the fire is related to the humidity in the air. In other words, the wind and rain are approaching, the humidity is high, and the salt block is wet, so it is naturally dull and silent when put into the fire.

Young people often look down on the philosophy of the elderly and think that they are out of date and useless. In fact, some life truths are like sea salt, which is still crystallized in old age and has the memory of the sea.