Brief:
Until today (August 2015, 8), Americans most common saying for sneezing is "one thought, two scolding, three chanting", which means that one sneeze is someone thinking about you, two sneezes is someone is scolding you, and three sneezes is someone is chanting. In fact, this saying has been passed down for thousands of years - the earliest can be traced back to the Book of Poetry, especially this "one thought", which brings the romantic feelings of the ancients to the extreme.
The Book of Poetry:· The Final Wind is a poem about the love of a man and a woman, which contains the phrase "Words do not sleep, willing words are sneezed", which means: "I think you can't sleep if you think about it, and if you think of me as much as I think of you, then I will sneeze". The seemingly difficult to reach the hall of elegance "sneezing" is comparable to autumn spinach here, pinning on the pain of similarities between men and women.
I want to sneeze myself, so that it means that my favorite person also likes me, and the ancients' careful thinking about the love of children is no different from that of modern people. There are also those who in turn want the other party to sneeze, in "Peony Pavilion" Liu Mengmei misses Du Liniang, so she said "make you sneeze like smallpox", in order to hope that she sneezes and knows "I miss you".
Sneezing A Que:
This style has been passed down through the ages, and has been written about by poets and novelists. Xin Qiqiang, who is famous for his great husband hood, also gently called "sneezing" "A Que" in his own words: "Mountains and waters." More than a thousand miles of beauty. Don't shy away from walking and get up early. It's all for you. Don't be afraid to be with people. I'm afraid of being teased. Because there is no magpie land. There's no way to say it. "
In addition to representing longing, sneezing may also represent being gossiped. Hong Mai of the Song Dynasty recorded in the "Essays on Rong Zhai": "Those who sneeze more than today will spit on Zhuyun: 'Some people say me. 'Especially women. This means that at that time, if someone kept sneezing, that person would have spat and cursed "Someone actually gossiped!" This is especially true for women. It can be seen that the saying that sneezing is someone gossiping behind their backs has been very popular in the Song Dynasty. And in the "Chinese Proverbs Sea" compiled by Shi Xiangya of the Qing Dynasty, there is also an entry that "sneezes and someone says".
"A Magpie" is the Great Law of Health
It is also said that sneezing has an auspicious meaning. People in many places have to say "long life and 100 years old" after sneezing, such as the ancient northern peoples of China, the "Yanbei Lu" recorded: "The Empress Dowager of Rong sneezed, the nearby attendants shouted in unison, and the Yuhan people shouted 'Long live'." In Liang Zhangju's "Three Talks on Wandering Trails" in the Qing Dynasty, it is said that this custom spread to the people, and whenever a child sneezes, "if he is also called a hundred years old and a good fortune to understand, he also has his own roots." So in many places, if a child suddenly sneezes, the elders will stroke his head while chanting in his mouth, "Years are safe, long life is a hundred years." "
This theory is said to come from the Buddhist scripture story, and the ancient Tianzhu people believed that when they sneezed, the essence would be sucked away by the nearby medicine fork, so they would get sick and age. If someone next to him wishes the sneezer a "long life", he can go to the murder of Ji. This custom later entered China and became popular in both the Song and Liao dynasties.
Buddhism Relates with:
Buddhism associates sneezing with longevity, and Taoism also says so. Daoist priests also use sneezing as a way to maintain health. In Taoist texts, there is the "method of taking the sun to the sun". The method is: on a clear day, wait for the sunrise to rise, face the sun, and inhale through the nose. Inhale until "choking", so that it can be ventilated, because the cool air in the morning is easy to irritate the nasal mucosa, will sneeze, Taoist priests believe, this will make people replenish the essence and rejuvenate the child.
Why we sneeze at sun:
There are many sayings about sneezing in the face of strong light from today's scientific principles, one of which is that the perception of the eyes and nose is innervated by the same trigeminal nerve, and when sunlight enters from the eyes, the nasal cavity mistakenly thinks that it stimulates itself, so it wants to expel its foreign body in the form of sneezing. Whether it can be healthy or not, without scientific statistics, it is not easy to say.
In the eyes of Westerners, sneezing is a contest between God and the devil
Today we can understand that due to the medical underdevelopment of the ancients, there were many mysteries on the "sneeze". However, this mystery coincided with the Eastern and Western worlds, where information was basically isolated one or two thousand years ago, and it seems that the scale of human brain holes does not distinguish between regions and races.
It was mentioned above that the subjects of the northern Chinese peoples would shout "Long live" after the master's "sneeze", while in 17th-century France, the etiquette after the emperor's sneeze was more standardized and explicitly enshrined in the country's "Civilized Etiquette and Etiquette": When the king or prime minister sneezes at the court, all officials must say "God bless you", and then all take half a step back to remove their hats and bend down to salute.
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