As the saying goes: 'Don't sleep with your head facing west', this is not a superstition. Do you understand the truth?

A third of everyone's life is spent sleeping. Some people think it's not enough, some people think it's too much.

How to sleep has also become one of the objects of civil discussion by the way. The ancients put forward a saying: "Don't sleep with your head facing west." But I don't know that after modern research, people really found a lot of evidence.

superstitious

Where to fall, where to lie down. The attitude of the predecessors and the ancients towards certain things is actually a consistency across time and space. People today. People today. "Rotten", fishing, paddling, the predecessors gave the answer in an alternative way.

In ancient times, people encountered incomprehensible phenomena, so they asked God to answer. After thousands of years of inheritance, this answer has another name - superstition.

But the ancients were also rebellious enough to create the theory of God and Buddha, and they also had the courage to challenge God and Buddha. If the gods and Buddhas solve this problem, it can be worshipped.

But if the problem can't be solved, people can't blame people for arranging Nezha to go to the third prince of the Dragon King in the East China Sea to peel and cramp. The cultural confrontation sparked by superstition is absolutely interesting.

After the feudal social background has a tone, it becomes easier to compose music and fill in lyrics. People encounter many doubts and habitually give the same answers.

As the saying goes, why can't you sleep with your head facing west? Taoism disagrees. The West is a happy world. Are you not going to convert to Buddhism? It's hard to accept poaching, let alone being proactive and honest.

Therefore, the speech from Taoism became popular among the people and gradually affected more and more people. Of course, much of this claim comes from conspiracy theories in many folktales.

What Taoism did not expect is that Buddhism does not allow to sleep facing west. The reason coincides with Taoism accidentally, that the West is the paradise of bliss. Although Buddhism preaches that it is possible to go to Elysium after death, it does not believe that believers are so dedicated.

In desperation, Buddhism had to show people the law, telling people that it is wrong to go from birth to death. To put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the ground, one must do more good deeds. If you do nothing and you want to become a Buddha, this is naturally allowed.

This kind of thinking is very simple, just like the employees of a certain unit now want to be promoted and raised. Badly behaved employees don't have a chance, and that doesn't mean an unachieving employee has a chance.

An official who is not corrupt is not a corrupt official, but it does not mean that he is a good official. Vegetarian meals are equally shameful.

What can the ancients do? Neither of the two religious elders recommend this practice, so don't sleep with your head facing west. spit out bad luck, and then honestly went to sleep in the other direction.

It is even more superstitious to say the old saying, even in many modern rural areas, it is even worse.

scientific explanation

Unofficial jokes, a little understanding. But when it comes to what direction to sleep in, ancient and modern sayings are worth considering.

First of all, there is a handed down medical book in the ancient literary classics called "Qianjin Yaofang". As a famous work by Mr. Sun Simiao, the king of medicine, this kind of medicine naturally has enough gold content. It mentions:

When mortals lie down, they face east in spring and summer and west in autumn and winter.

Why should sleep choose different directions according to different seasons? In fact, it is yin and yang. Don't think this is just a simple superstition of Sun Simiao. The wisdom of the ancient working people is puzzling and truly admirable.

Take yin and yang as an example. Countless people still have a hard time understanding what the so-called yin and yang means, but they feel that yin and yang are everywhere. With the change of the body, this special feeling that cannot be seen or touched will give people a great shock.

The ancients never lied to me.

The second is the explanation of modern medicine, which is about to rise to the height of the direction of the earth's rotation. Earth rotates from east to west. If you sleep with your head facing west, your body will definitely be perpendicular to the north-south magnetic field lines.

In this case, sleep, one is uncomfortable sleep, and the other is not circulating blood. For a period of time or ten days and a half months, there won't be much feeling.

It's just that over time, the changes in the body often catch people off guard.

Therefore, in order to improve sleep discomfort, more and more people recommend not to face west when sleeping, but to follow the magnetic field line.

But this is inconsistent with the direction proposed by Sun Simiao? Why does it seem to be able to sleep in the east, west, north and south, but in modern society, it is still unstable to sleep?

Although the two views are different, the purpose is the same. They all want everyone to get a good night's sleep. However, Mr. Sun Simiao advocated that people should pay attention to the harmony of yin and yang, and today's medical concept pays more attention to adapting to the changes of the magnetic field.

If you really want to distinguish between good and bad, no one can convince anyone. Everyone’s body is different, let alone the same. The best way to do this is to try to get used to your sleeping habits. If the east-west direction is unstable, the north-south direction is naturally the best choice.