As the saying goes: 'Women are afraid of giving birth at noon, men are afraid of midnight.' What does it mean? come to find out

China has a very rich cultural heritage. After all, China is one of the four ancient civilizations and one of the oldest surviving countries. Therefore, China has a very long history, and the history and culture inherited are naturally very rich.

Proverbs are one of them. In ancient times, because people's thinking was relatively feudal at that time, everyone believed in "ghosts and gods", "yin and yang", "metaphysics", etc. The word "science" also appeared in modern times.

However, the ancients were very self-contained. They had the catchphrase of their ancestors. Even today, many sayings are widely used in daily life, and there are countless sayings about fertility. "Women are afraid of midnight, men are afraid of "Midnight" is a common saying left to us by the ancients about the time when a child is born. What is the full meaning of this sentence?

These two words can be seen from the word "fear": girls are taboo to be born at midnight, while boys are taboo to be born at midnight. Which time point do "midnight" and "zishi" specifically represent? Why did ancient people have such taboos?

First, let me give you a specific introduction to the current time corresponding to one night and noon. The ancients divided the twenty-four hours of a day into twelve hours. The 12 hours of the twelve Earthly Branches are: " Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Shu, and Hai . In ancient times, one day was equivalent to two hours now," noon " means 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, and "midnight" means 11:00 pm to 1:00 am.

Now is a society that pays attention to science. We all know that it is normal for babies to be born at any time. There is no such thing as "misfortune comes from the mouth", "whether the baby can grow up safely and healthily" has nothing to do with the time of birth.

The first is that due to the low level of medical care in ancient times, the people living in the countryside, and because of the tyrannical taxation of the current dynasty, made their living burdens heavier. Usually, they would not be willing to see a doctor for a minor illness or disaster. They are seriously ill, and they don't have enough money to treat them.

For newborn babies, their immunity is very low, and they must not be sloppy at this time. The burden of life has already made people feel miserable, so they will form a kind of spiritual sustenance. I hope they can give birth to a baby. This family brought new hope, and influenced by metaphysics, feudal superstition was formed.

Secondly, because ancient people attached great importance to "Yin-Yang and Five Elements" and "mutual generation and mutual restraint", from top to bottom to the princes and aristocrats, down to the common people, they all attached great importance to Yin-Yang and Five Elements, and they believed that in ancient times, men attached great importance to it.

For the ancients, noon was the time when the yang energy was the heaviest in the day. If a girl with a yin attribute was born at this point in time, the yang energy in her body would be too heavy, and her yin energy would be covered up, resulting in a new birth. If the child's yin and yang are out of balance, it is easy to get sick, and if it is serious, a woman will become weak throughout her life.

There is also another saying that girls born at noon are "hard-fated". To put it bluntly, this woman has the ability to resist disasters, but the ancients generally believed that by the time of the Gregorian calendar, women generally bring bad luck to their relatives at home, as we often hear The so-called "nemesis" was very taboo by the ancients.

Noon is the yang time of the day, so Zishi is the yin time of the day. Boys are inherently yang. A woman born at noon will face the same situation.

Therefore, ancient times attached great importance to the theory of yin-yang and five elements. It is generally believed that men and women should not violate their own attributes in time, so there is such a saying: "Women are afraid of giving birth in the afternoon, and men are afraid of midnight."

The ancients believed that "yin and yang changes" lead to the movement and change of all things. The theory of yin and yang can be applied to all phenomena in nature. Chinese medicine even mentions the theory of "harmony of yin and yang", but on the other hand, it contains the truth that makes people value harmony.