In recent years, superstitious activities have been rampant and there is a possibility of a comeback. If left unchecked, it will seriously affect the smooth progress of the four modernizations, seriously hinder the construction of spiritual civilization and harmonious society, and must arouse our high vigilance.
Talking about "Widowed Year"
From the end of 2004 to the beginning of 2005, a marriage craze swept across the country, and many large and medium-sized cities appeared the phenomenon of queuing up for marriage registration, especially cities in the south of the Yangtze River, such as Suzhou. According to Yang Jining, a reporter from Gusu Evening News, around New Year's Day in 2005, there were dozens of couples who came to apply for marriage registration every day, several times as many as usual. Why do so many young men and women get married during this time? The reason turned out to be a very absurd rumor, saying, "There is no beginning of spring in the Year of the Rooster, it is a' widowed year' and it is not suitable for marriage." It turns out that the Spring Festival in 2005 was on February 9th, but beginning of spring was on February 4th before the Spring Festival. Therefore, there was no beginning of spring in the Year of the Rooster, commonly known as "widowed year", and some people said it was "widowed year".
I have lived in this world for 65 years, but I was surprised when I first heard the term "widowed year". I'm not studying history. Maybe there was such a saying in the past, but it's superstitious and absurd. Later, with the improvement of social civilization and the popularization of public scientific and cultural knowledge, it gradually disappeared, but this time it revived; It is more likely that the so-called "Mr. Feng Shui", "Master of Divination" and "Astrologer" saw that "there is no spring this year (in beginning of spring)" and took the opportunity to spread rumors, hoping to create an atmosphere of superstitious activities, publicize the momentum, and thus fish in troubled waters.
A direct consequence of the lie of "Widowhood Year" is to create chaos. As everyone wants to get married on the last bus of the Year of the Monkey, the degree of crowding and tension can be imagined. Register to get a license, engage in a wedding banquet, notify relatives and friends, arrange a wedding room, buy a dowry, take wedding photos ... For a time, hotels, restaurants, wedding photo studios, cosmetics, but all businesses involved in the wedding service industry are tight, which will inevitably lead to some contradictions. Some newly registered couples have made so many troubles for surprise marriage and quarreled. Even a couple who just got a marriage certificate complained to each other as soon as they got out of the marriage registration office. This is all caused by the rumor of "Widowhood Year". The hasty marriage caused by the rumor of "widowed year" may also bring hidden dangers of marital instability. According to the investigation of the civil court in Houma County, Shanxi Province, 1995, the court accepted 44 divorce cases, accounting for more than half of the civil disputes, and half of these divorce cases were illegal marriages. The reason for these illegal marriages is the local rumor of "Widowed Year" two years ago, so many people flout the law and rush to get married early. Those under-age people stole the marriage, and some people made excuses to cheat through the back door. Who knows that they escaped the "widow's year", and some of them filed a lawsuit for divorce a year later. As a result, they became widows and tasted the bitter fruit.
Speaking of this kind of thing, there are also "monkey babies" crowded. The year 2004 is the Year of the Monkey, and the year 2003 is the Year of the Sheep. There is a saying in society that the year of the sheep is unlucky, and people who belong to the sheep are unlucky, so the number of children born in the year of the sheep has plummeted, and they are all crowded into the year of the monkey to give birth to monkeys, making the number of babies born in the year of the monkey much higher than in previous years. This will not only make the delivery room in the Year of the Monkey extremely crowded, but also give the "monkey babies" parenting, study and even employment in the future. I also heard a hilarious story: an older young man returned from studying in Japan, but he was not married for various reasons such as completing his studies. His mother was anxious to let relatives and friends introduce her son. Finally, someone helped me find a good-looking female engineer with the right age, so I contacted her for the first time, but after careful questioning, they all said that women belong to sheep and men belong to tigers, which is not suitable for marriage. What a pity that a marriage that others thought might be good broke up without meeting. We can only sigh that there is no fate, that's all. However, Li, a farmer in Zhonghe Township, Dazhu County, Sichuan Province, listened to the fortune teller's zodiac story and even killed his own son. His behavior is not sighing, but insolence.
One day, Li saw a fortune teller telling someone's fortune, and he became fascinated and let the fortune teller do the math himself. The fortune teller pretended to see Li's face, pretending to be surprised and saying, "You are a noble man, and you are blessed to be a big official. It' s just that the opportunity is not good now, and the tiger will fall flat and will soon develop. " Then he asked about the zodiac signs of Li and his son, frowned and said, "Your horoscope is not good either. You are a rabbit, your son is a tiger, and the tiger wants to eat rabbits. Either you die or he dies. Soon your family will die. " Li was pleasantly surprised after hearing this. He was convinced that he had evil thoughts about his son 1 1 year-old, and he was determined to kill this "tiger". Since then, he has been thinking about abusing his son everywhere, finding fault and killing him. Finally, on a snowy night, he beat his son badly and dragged him out of the door to freeze to death. As a result, instead of being an official, he became a prisoner.
Nowadays, this superstition is everywhere, and many superstitious activities are likely to make a comeback under the guise of "culture" and "science". "Feng Shui", "astrology", "fortune prediction", "computer fortune telling" and "fortune prediction website" are all very popular, and some even openly cheat in the society under the banner of "consulting company", attracting many loyal men and women, and their business is booming. According to Gusu Evening News, at the end of 2004, the newspaper published an article entitled "Architectural Feng Shui is getting hotter and hotter in Suzhou". The original intention of the newspaper is to hope that everyone can look at the revival of "Feng Shui" with a scientific attitude. Unexpectedly, after the article was published, several phone calls were made to the newspaper every day, asking for the contact number of the so-called "consulting company". A reader even bluntly said on the phone, "My mother is ill in bed, and it is suspected that the house is not feng shui. What is the telephone number of the consulting company? " You see, my mother didn't go to the hospital first when she got sick, but she tried every means to find Mr. Feng Shui to see how obsessed Feng Shui was.
Now more and more people pay attention to Feng Shui. According to a feng shui master, among the villa buyers in Suzhou, 10, five will invite feng shui masters to have a look. The richer they are, the more they talk about feng shui. According to a public relations person of a real estate company, it is an open secret to ask Mr. Feng Shui to see Feng Shui before developing a real estate, and many property buyers should also bring their own Feng Shui masters to see the real estate.
In addition to Feng Shui, there is also a name, and I also want to invite Master Zhou Yi of the "consulting company". A reporter wants to know about this kind of consulting company. According to the phone number provided by the insider, I called the reporter on the grounds that the child was named. A "master" explained to reporters that naming people is very particular. Only by analyzing the ups and downs of Yin and Yang according to my birthday can we get a proper name, which will determine the fate of this person's life, how mysterious it is. The "master" also said that the naming was based on the theory of Zhouyi, suggesting that some universities asked. When the reporter asked how to charge for naming, the master said, "The starting price for naming children is 200 yuan." Ask again: "Can you make it cheaper?" Answer: "I'm busy now, please call back in a couple of days." The "master" hung up the phone after he finished, which can be described as bullish.
Another is that it is very popular to burn incense and worship Buddha now. Temple incense is very popular all over the country. Especially in some poor areas, there is no money to build schools and temples. What is even more unimaginable is that among the people who burn incense and worship Buddha, party member cadres are in the majority, and even corrupt officials use public funds to pray for God's will. On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2005, it was reported that the right to enter the incense of Tanzhe Temple, a famous temple in the suburbs of Beijing, was auctioned as a hot commodity, and people flocked to bid for it for a while, and it was finally taken away by a mysterious man at a high price of 66 thousand. At the same time, Jietai Temple also bought Brahma Bell's right to "head wick" and "first collision" for 42,000 yuan and 50,000 yuan. For a time, many temples are also eager to try, and they have followed suit, causing public controversy.
When this superstition prevails, children are even more worried. A girl from Wang Xing, a key middle school in Suzhou, has been doing well, but on the eve of the latest exam, she applied for an extension. The reason is very strange, saying that the date of the exam was her "unlucky day", so she must have failed in the exam and could not explain it to her parents. Of course, teachers will not agree with such reasons.
Afterwards, the girl said to the reporter who interviewed her, "Don't believe it, it was my bad luck that day, so don't mention the exam, because it was the worst day for Gemini, otherwise I wouldn't ask for an extension." She also told reporters that her lucky number is 5. Look at her watch before the exam. If the time just refers to "5", she can do well in the exam. If it's not "5", look at your watch later. You can't start writing until you see "5". "The unlucky exam, I just can't wait for' 5'. I went for half an hour and didn't see' 5', so I knew it was over. " Xiao Wang looks depressed. Can you imagine a girl of 14 years old being so superstitious? Where did her superstitious thoughts come from? It turns out that a small shop opposite the school is full of comic books about constellations, which are very popular for teenagers. Xiao Wang just looks at the poison in this book.
Coincidentally, according to an article in a newspaper in Wuxi on June 5438+1October 18, 2005, Ms. Yu recently found that her daughter in senior two was very relaxed in her studies and the final exam was approaching. Instead, she stopped reading and said confidently, She must be the top three in the class. What is intriguing is that my daughter's so-called good prediction results are actually divined from a website called "Campus Feng Shui". According to the survey, the content of this "Campus Feng Shui" website is quite rich, and the divination category is very detailed. If you want to predict the final exam results, it can "indicate" the time to get up on the day of the exam, the position of the alarm clock, the use of color, the choice of pen and so on. And show a series of ironic divination results, such as when the result is good and when the result is bad.
The website shows that the number of registered people exceeds 16000. What is even more surprising is that such divination websites exist in large numbers. Someone typed the word "divination" into "Google search website", and within 1 second, thousands of such websites were found, such as "Ma Shenyi Xiang", "Pi Bazi", "Interpretation of the Twelve Constellations" and "Palm Reading", and some websites also provided various fortune-telling software for download. Nowadays, things like "online fortune telling" and "computer fortune telling" are very fashionable. They appear as high-tech and are very attractive, especially to teenagers. Long-term exposure to such superstitious information, they will gradually accept, and then believe that it is extremely harmful.
In 2004, the School of Social Sciences of Suzhou University conducted a comprehensive "scientific literacy" survey among the representative urban primary and secondary school students in China. Among them, a survey on whether fortune telling is scientific shows that 46.7% students think fortune telling is scientific. Another survey of junior high school and senior high school students in Beijing shows that among the 65,438,000 middle school students, 40 believe in "high-tech superstitions" such as Internet astrology. How will each of us feel in the face of this shocking result?
Are some superstitious statements reasonable?
Superstition has existed since ancient times and has been passed down to this day. At first, superstition was the product of human ignorance and difficulty in making reasonable explanations for various natural and social phenomena. Therefore, ignorance is the fertile ground and breeding ground of superstition. Now, some of us are confused, deceived and lack of knowledge by superstition, especially the first reason of scientific and technological knowledge.
Take the rumor of "Widowhood Year" as an example. It is normal that there is no beginning of spring in the Year of the Rooster in 2005, which is caused by the difference between the lunar calendar (also called the lunar calendar) and the solar calendar (also called the Gregorian calendar). Anyone who knows calendar knowledge knows that "spring rains shake spring and clear valleys;" Summer is full of mountains and summer is connected; Autumn, autumn frost; Winter snow, winter snow and winter cold ",these 24 solar terms are a unique calendar created by working people in ancient China, which integrates astronomy, climate seasons and agricultural production activities. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,000 years ago, our ancestors had determined the length of the sun shadow, thus determining the time of the vernal equinox, summer solstice, autumn equinox and winter solstice. After continuous evolution and supplement, the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (BC 104) completed the calendar reform and formulated the taichu calendar, which has been in use ever since. At that time, there were already 24 solar terms exactly the same as those in modern times. However, we now set the time of the 24 solar terms according to the solar calendar and divide them according to the position of the earth in the orbit around the sun. The 1 period of the earth around the sun is 360 degrees, counting 365 days, and taking spring as 0 degrees, then every 15 degrees is 1 solar terms, that is, every 15.2 days is 1 solar terms. So according to the solar calendar, there are two solar terms every month, and their dates are basically fixed. For example, in beginning of spring, it was February 4th in 2004, February 4th in 2005 and February 4th in 2006. But the lunar calendar is different, because the lunar calendar is based on the moon's profit and loss.
Its profit and loss period is 1 month, while the moon's orbit around the earth 1 week is only 29.5 days, so the lunar month is 29 days and the lunar month is 30 days, which is 1 year 1 2 months. In this way, the date of solar terms in the lunar calendar is not fixed, and similarly, the Spring Festival (the first day of the first month) is not fixed. Corresponding to the solar calendar, the first day of the first month can be 1 at the earliest, 2 1 (for the Spring Festival in Shen Jia in 2004,1,22) and the latest can be February 20th (65433 on the third day of the lunar calendar). Of course, half of the years will be after the first day of the first month in beginning of spring (February 4th). According to the author's statistics on the latest cycle of 1987 to 19 in 2005, it is not surprising that the Spring Festival (the first day of the first month) after beginning of spring is as high as 1 1 time. This is similar to the year of widowhood. 1 1 In the year of "No Spring", thousands of people got married. Isn't it normal now? I haven't heard that they are all widows, and the statement of "widowhood year" is sheer nonsense. What is worth thinking about here is another question: after all, the lunar calendar was formulated more than 2,000 years ago, and it is understandable that it is unreasonable and imperfect. Therefore, astronomical calendar experts are brewing "calendar reform".
Of course, few people really believe in the saying of "widowhood year". However, quite a few people are so-called quasi-believers who would rather believe what is there than what is not. They think that marriage is an important event in life and they want to make a fortune. The term "widowed year" is boring, makes people feel guilty and casts a shadow over marriage. Might as well avoid it. In fact, this is a trick for superstition to win: psychological warfare, which makes you fall into its trap in doubt, hesitation and mumbling. A thorough materialist is fearless. He should have a firm belief, completely get rid of superstition, and be free from any interference and influence. Besides, there are many unpleasant things and unpleasant sayings in this world, so don't care. As the saying goes: "Listen to the mole, can you not farm?" There is also a famous saying: "Go your own way and let others talk!" We should face those superstitious statements with a healthy attitude and resolve those deceptive lies with a more positive attitude. 2005 is a very beautiful year, a year to complete the first 10 five-year plan and a crucial year to realize a well-off society in an all-round way. As far as Jiangsu and Suzhou are concerned, this year is the first year to achieve a high-level well-off society in an all-round way, and there will certainly be good news, happy events and many good things. If you're getting married, what are you hesitating about? To hell with the year of widowhood!
As for the zodiac, also known as the zodiac, its origin is related to the ancient people's worship of animals. Later, it was used by ancient astrologers, using 12 kinds of animals to match the twelve earthly branches, the son is a mouse, the ugly is a cow, the yin is a tiger, the hair is a rabbit, the Chen is a dragon, the snake is an afternoon horse, the sheep is a monkey, the unitary is a chicken, the dog is a dog, and the hai is a pig. The so-called astrologers refer to experts engaged in various superstitious activities, such as astrology, divination, Liu Ren, Daoism, fortune-telling, incantation, starting classes and divination. They painted the zodiac with a strong superstitious color. According to astrologers, the zodiac refers to what kind of animal you belong to when you were born. For example, mice born the year after next may be suspicious, active, timid and alert, similar to mice. This is a completely far-fetched story. In fact, the earthly branch is also called the twelve earthly branches. The ancients matched it with trunk branches to form Jiazi, Ugly B, Bingyin and so on. ***60 groups, commonly known as "Sixty Jiazi", are used to indicate the order of year, month, day and time. This has nothing to do with people's character and fate. How can you believe the story of the zodiac?
There is also feng shui, which is not unreasonable. It is understandable to build houses and graves and make necessary choices about topography, water veins and environment, but it is ridiculous to attribute people's fate to Feng Shui. In the article "Investigation Report of Hunan Peasant Movement", Comrade Mao Zedong once strongly refuted the superstition of Feng Shui: "If you believe in the eight characters, you will be lucky, and if you believe in Feng Shui, you will be able to see the mountains." . In recent months, local tyrants, evil gentry and corrupt officials have all fallen. A few months ago, local tyrants, evil gentry and corrupt officials were all lucky, and everyone's graves were angry? In recent months, all of a sudden, everyone's luck has gone bad, and the graves are flat. "In fact, fortune-telling, fortune-telling, physiognomy, geomantic omen, fortune-telling and word-testing have all become activities of some charlatans to cheat and make money. They often rely on mysterious so-called professional knowledge, a set of tricks, tricks, and tricks, as well as a trump card, ambiguous and self-evident answers, plus a little psychological rationality, which often makes people feel seemingly reasonable, and sometimes even achieve more accurate and bizarre results. In fact, this is not surprising, because many answers such as fortune telling are the result of either/or, and there is a 50% chance in itself.
In addition, the probability of guessing will be further improved by means of deception, such as reading words, saying good things, playing ecstasy, and throwing psychological warfare at will. When I was in high school in the early 1950s, in order to expose the truth about the deception of fortune telling, I showed the fortune telling tricks to the villagers in my hometown according to the tricks of fortune telling, and I was able to tell them clearly, which surprised the audience. In fact, there is no profound knowledge here. To put it bluntly, it is a simple and superstitious lie. It is very important to take advantage of the kindness of ordinary people. If the fortune teller is accurate, it will spread widely, which is amazing. Many people believe that what fortune tellers say is true, but ordinary people don't take it seriously. In addition, fortune tellers are good at making amends, and they will go away. In fact, there are countless examples of fortune tellers not collapsing, which makes people numb. A few years before the arrival of 1999, the great prophecy that "1999 is the end of the world" was heated up and really made some believers want to die. What was the result? 1At the end of 997, Chen Jingyi, a well-known astrologer in Taiwan Province and the host of astrology and numerology program broadcast on TV, was killed by her married boyfriend in her home because of emotional entanglements. The fortune teller could not predict his own fatal disaster, which made superstitious believers stunned for a while and soon became a laughing stock spread all over the world. A simpler and clearer example is that a person left after listening to the words of a fortune teller. The fortune teller was so anxious that he shouted, "Hey, why don't you give money?"
Let's go "The man said," aren't you amazing? Why didn't you figure out that I didn't want to pay? I don't have a penny on me! " Everyone around us laughed.