The old man said, "Don't plant trees at sixty. Why can't you plant trees at the age of sixty?"

Abstract: old people in rural areas say, "if you don't build a house at 50, why can't you build a house at 50?"

"Don't build a house at fifty. Don't plant trees at sixty. I don't make clothes at seventy. Eighty doesn't visit friends. " This is a proverb handed down from ancient times, and it is said that ancient proverbs are the crystallization of the wisdom of their ancestors, such as "long October, short May, not long February and August", "if grass does not sprout unintentionally, people are unintentionally underdeveloped", "there is no pig-eating pig in the trough."unevenly divided dogs bite dogs" and other proverbs are all proverbs summed up by the ancients through social experience and have been handed down to this day.

The life expectancy of the ancients is very low, and some ancient proverbs are out of date.

"Don't build houses at 50, don't plant trees at 60." these two sentences mean that when people enter old age, there is no need to make long-term plans, and do not spend their remaining time doing things that do not make much sense to them.

Don't build a house at fifty, which means don't build a house after fifty, because building a house is a life event that runs out of money. when you build a house, you don't have the life to enjoy it. And not planting trees after 60 means the same thing. After 60, don't plant trees. Because trees take a very long time to grow into trees, there is an inherent saying that "it takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred years to cultivate people." it's possible that you can't see trees grow into towering trees after the age of 60.

Of course, not all the ancient sayings can be applied in modern times. In ancient times, productivity was low, life was difficult, and there was no effective treatment for diseases. The life expectancy of the ancients was generally not very long, and the average life expectancy in feudal society was only 37 years old. Most people call them old after the age of 40. For example, Su Shi wrote in "Jiangchengzi Mizhou Hunting" that "the old man talked about the madness of teenagers."

In modern times, with the improvement of living standards and the development of medical technology, the average life expectancy of citizens reached 76 years in 2015. Therefore, the age of 50 is still in the prime of life, they are still struggling at work, and according to the continuous improvement of people's life expectancy, the state has proposed to postpone retirement so that the elderly can still shine and shine at work.

Zeng Tingmei in the Qing Dynasty wrote an ancient proverb. The proverb "planting trees" tells his view to this proverb. "according to the old proverb, no houses are built at fifty, no trees are planted at sixty, and no clothing at seventy. Zhang Shengong's father, Yu, is 70 years old. The old man ate very sweet oranges at the banquet, so he planted the core of the oranges in the hope that they would often have oranges in the future.

But the guests here sneered secretly, thinking that it would be impossible to eat oranges in less than ten years, and that Yu was too old to eat. Later, Yu ate oranges for ten years before he died. "people think that when they are old, they should live a comfortable life. This judgment based on experience is wrong, and laughing at others has become their own ridicule."

People live to pursue a higher realm of life, can not rigidly adhere to the age limit, so as to live up to the time of life, create value and enjoy life.

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