What's the meaning of my favorite number?

Numbers have a great influence on our lives. People give numbers a specific meaning. Many people hate 13. A newly-built office building will have a floor of 12A, but this floor is actually 13. Almost all goods related to numbers are 8 expensive and 4 cheap.

People's emotional bias towards the number 7 is not as absolute as that of 8 or 4. Sometimes it's not very good. We players often hear the waiter explain that this number is cheap because it "has 4 bands and 7 bands". Sometimes, 7 is good. Wenzhou people with good business experience like 7 or even more than 8, because they believe in "seven ups and eight downs", and 7 stands for "seven ups and eight downs", which is progress. Even many Americans are interested in 777, because the combination of 777 in most casino slot machines is a good number, and it is also related to 2 1 minute on the table. People's feelings about "7" are very complicated.

In western culture, people have a special liking for the number "seven" and endow it with rich cultural connotations, and use it to express the meanings of "luck", "happiness" and "majority". "Seven" is a sacred and mysterious number, which has a wide and far-reaching influence on western culture and even the whole world culture. Because it has a strong religious color, it affects all aspects of people's work and life. China also has an idiom "Saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda", which associates the number "seven" with life and death. Hebrews like to swear by "seven"; The three major festivals of the Jews all last seven days; Westerners think that the seventh son must be excellent. Religion and culture often use "seven" to regulate people's morality and behavior. People have the "seven senses" of vitality, emotion, language, taste, sight, hearing and smell. People should also have "seven virtues", namely: trust, hope, kindness, humility, perseverance, caution and temperance. People's "seven good deeds" are: taking care of the sick, feeding the hungry, drinking the thirsty, putting on naked clothes, providing shelter for strangers, helping prisoners and burying the dead. People's "seven spiritual good deeds" are: reforming sinners, educating the ignorant, persuading the doubters, comforting the suffering, enduring, forgiving the injured, praying for the living and the dead. In religious culture, there is a famous "seventh heaven", that is, a heavy sky is a pure silver sky, which is the residence of Adam and Eve, the ancestors of mankind; Double heaven is a pure gold paradise, which is the territory of John and Jesus; The triple sky is the pearl sky and the territory of the angel of death; The quadruple sky is a platinum sky, inhabited by weeping angels; The fifth heaven is a silver sky, inhabited by revenge angels; Six days are ruby days, inhabited by guardian angels; Seventh heaven is a paradise of bliss and the residence of God and the highest angel. In addition, people have seven deadly sins: pride, anger, jealousy, lust, gluttony, greed and laziness. And God has "seven gifts": wisdom, intelligence, advice, perseverance, knowledge, justice and fear of God. Culturally, the most famous are the Seven Wonders of the World. They are: Egyptian pyramids, Hanging Gardens, Mausoleum of Mo Solas, Temple of Diana at Ephesus, Colossus of Rhode Island, Statue of Zeus at Olympia and Alexander Lighthouse. In addition, the virgin Mary has seven joys and seven sorrows; Christianity has seven guardians; Seven sacraments; Music has seven tones; Natural light has seven colors; Wait, the list goes on. In the long-term use of the number "seven", people have endowed it with rich cultural connotation and mysterious religious color.

First, the ancient people's worship of "Seven"

Both the ancestors of China people and the ancestors of foreigners worship "Seven".

The Sumerians, who founded the kingdom of Babylon, believed that all seven Obis were gods and worshipped them. I am convinced that they rule and dominate the changes of the world in turn. As a result, the ancestors of the Semitic people evolved their reverence for the Seven Stars into their ancient religion. They built seven altars, offered seven sacrifices and made seven prayers ... Day after day, year after year, gradually, "seven" was abstracted from their devout totem worship etiquette, became a grand symbol, and finally integrated into the new monotheism.

Sumerians generally called the sun, the moon and the five planets (the ancients observed with the naked eye and only knew the five planets) as planets. Obviously, it is because these seven celestial bodies are constantly moving relative to the star background. In Babylon, the "Seven Obsidian Days" came into being. The Semitic people regard Obsidian Seven as a god, the Semitic tribes regard Seven as the biggest, and Seven as "multiple" and "complete".

Among the cultural relics unearthed in Sanxingdui, we also saw China's ancestor worship of "Seven". As we all know, the unit of length in the early days of human culture is usually taken from the length of a certain body organ of a tribal leader or monarch, such as one punch, one elbow, one arm, one foot, height and so on. There are signs that in Sanxingdui culture, the basic unit of its length is a punch, which is now10 cm; There is also an arm, seven fists long, and now it is 70 cm. It is worth noting that the gold staff unearthed in Sanxingdui No.1 artifact pit has a relief pattern at one end. From a vertical perspective, the patterns are divided into the same two groups, which are: the head of a person wearing a high crown, feathers, birds, fish, feathers, birds and fish, and seven image units; Its cultural connotation is that tribal leaders or emperors have the right to issue hunting orders (the ancients used feathers to pass orders, and the story of Ji Maoxin is the remains of this culture). Obviously, this golden staff representing power obviously has the connotation of worshipping the number seven. Sanxingdui culture may be the remains of Shun culture. In China ancient myths and legends and ancient history records, Shun culture has the characteristics of worshipping the number seven. It is clearly recorded in Shun Dian: "Yu Heng, Zheng".

The ancient people's worship of the number seven may mainly come from the moon cycle, the beginning of the month, the first quarter of the month, the full moon and the last quarter of the month, with seven days as the cycle, and the human physiological cycle is also related to the number seven in many ways. Twenty-eight stars are also based on the number seven, which can be used to record the movements of the moon (moon station) and Saturn (Saturn is also called Zhenxing, which has been orbiting the sun for more than 28 years); The origin of the twenty-eight stars can be traced back to the four stars of bird, fire, deficiency and dragon in Yaodian and the four stars of room, hair, deficiency and Zhang in Huangdi Neijing. "The Inner Diameter of the Yellow Emperor" records: "The Yellow Emperor asked Qi Bo:' What is the combination that I would like to smell and keep my breath?' Zeebe said,' There are December in a year, and there are twelve days in a day. The meridian is the meridian, and You Mao is the latitude. There are twenty-eight nights and weeks in the sky, but there are seven stars, four stars, seven stars and twenty-eight stars on the surface. The base point of the house is latitude and the imaginary meridian. " "

Besides the sun, the moon and the five planets, the Big Dipper is also an important digital seven culture, but it is mainly reflected in the northern region. For example, the Huangdi clan called Beidou the "Emperor Car", while the important members of the Huangdi Tribal Alliance included Xiong and Xuanyuan, and their names were all related to the Big Dipper. In the west, Beidou is called Ursa major, which probably originated from the bear tribe of the Yellow Emperor.

Second, the "seven" in religion

"Seven" is a mysterious number in the Bible. God created the world in seven days, man in the seventh day, and Eve in Adam's seventh rib. Man has seven deadly sins and seven punishments, and Satan's original body is seven fire dragons. ...

In Buddhism, in the past, Sakyamuni meditated under the bodhi tree for 7749 days, and finally realized the law of human birth and death and life. "Nothing, so it caused dust." After that, "Qi" was widely used in Buddhism. The Monkey King, whom you are familiar with, was tempered in 7749 days, and Tang Priest and his disciples had to go through 7749 difficulties to get the true scriptures.

Three, "seven" and people themselves

People can't live without "seven". "Secular desire", people also have "seven" in their daily emotions.

Different fields have different understandings of "seven emotions". The Book of Rites says: joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, evil and lust. The Confucian "seven emotions" refer to joy, anger, worry, fear, love, hate and lust. The seven emotions in TCM theory refer to joy, anger, worry, thinking, sadness, fear and surprise.

Fourth, the "seven" in folk customs.

1, "seven" has a lot of attention in folk customs, especially in funeral customs.

Every seven days is a memorial day, also called "Sacrifice Seven" or "Celebrate Seven". The first seven days are called "the first seven days", the last seven days are called "Erqi" and the seventh day is called "Zuoqi". "March 7", "May 7" and "Do 7" are more grand. Most bereaved families, relatives and friends burn paper and simmer in front of graves. Why do you want to "pass seven"? Legend has it that there are "Ten Temples in Yamaraja" in the underworld, and every seven days, they go to a "Yamaraja" to go to court and be tried. As the saying goes, "the dead are easy to see, but the children are hard to see" and "money makes the mare go". Therefore, every seven days, people go to the grave to burn paper and "give money", which means to buy off "little kids" and bribe "Rebecca" to save the ghosts of their loved ones from disaster.

There is also a very important folk festival "Qixi" related to "July", which is equivalent to Valentine's Day abroad.

Qixi Qiqiao originated in the Han Dynasty. Ge Hong's Miscellaneous Notes on Xijing in the Eastern Jin Dynasty records that "women in the Han Dynasty often wear seven-hole needles on July 7 in the building, and everyone wears them", which is the earliest record of begging for cleverness in ancient literature we have seen. In later Tang and Song poems, women's begging for cleverness was repeatedly mentioned. In the Tang Dynasty, Wang Jian wrote a poem "The stars are bright and the pearls are bright, and Gong E is busy begging for cleverness". According to "The Legacy of Kaiyuan Tianbao", every time Emperor Taizong and his concubines held a banquet in the Qing Palace on Tanabata, the ladies-in-waiting begged with their own ingenuity. This custom is also enduring among the people and passed down from generation to generation.

During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Qiaqiao was quite grand, and there was also a market in Beijing that monopolized Qiaqiao goods, which was called Qiaqiao City by the world. Song He's series "Talking about Drunken Weng" said: "Tanabata, the property is a gimmick. From July 1 ST, horses and chariots were swallowed, and three days before Chinese Valentine's Day, horses and chariots were not allowed to pass, and they stopped driving again and again until the night. " Here, we can infer the lively scene of the Jocci Festival from the grand occasion of buying Qiao Qi goods from Qiao Qi. People have been putting up flattering articles since the first day of July, and people are coming and going in the flattering market. By the time of Tanabata, the market of Qiqiao was already crowded with people, as if it were the biggest festival-Spring Festival, which showed that Qiqiao Festival was one of the favorite festivals of the ancients.

Valentine's Day in China is always associated with the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. This is a beautiful love story that has been passed down through the ages and has become one of the four folk love legends in China.

On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, it is said that on the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet at the Magpie Bridge, the girls will come to the flowers and the moon, look up at the stars and look for the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl on both sides of the Milky Way, hoping to see their annual meeting, and pray to God that they will be as ingenious as the Weaver Girl and that they will have a happy marriage, thus forming China's Valentine's Day.

Five, "seven" idioms and two-part allegorical sayings

Idioms beginning with 1 and "seven"

Seven diseases and eight falls

Describe weakness

suffer from illnesses/ailments of all kinds―be in poor health

① refers to all kinds of pain. ② refers to infirmity.

In addition, there are: seven steps and eight forks, seven steps into poetry, seven steps into chapters, seven steps into success, seven long and eight short, seven pierced and eight holes, seven worn and eight rotten, seven built and eight pulled, seven built and eight pulled, seven big and eight small, seven shoulders and eight moved, seven staggered and eight broken, seven back to Dan, seven high and eight low, seven arched and eight warped, seven horizontal and eight vertical. Seven full and eight flat, seven men and eight husbands, seven patchwork, seven broken and eight supplements, seven seven eight eight, seven exquisite, seven flames, seven regained sight, seven tackled and seven vertical, seven green and eight yellow, secular desires, seven ups and downs, seven ups and downs, seven conflicts, seven lives and seven deaths, too many cooks, seven heads and eight feet, seven deaths and eight births, seven deaths and seven births. Seven pieces of eight mouths, seven folds and eight buckles, seven chastity and nine fierceness, seven branches and eight sets, seven sons and eight husbands, seven vertical and eight horizontal, seven vertical and seven birds, seven vertical and seven tackled, seven feet and eight hands, seven mouths and eight pieces, seven hands and eight hands * * seventy-four.

"Seven" is the second word in the idiom.

muddledness

in a complete mess

Very messy

Very messy

"Seven" is the third word in the idiom.

Give a person dignity.

resourceful

Seven ancestors of nine cases

Three souls and seven senses

Rivers and lakes

San Mao Qi Kong

High officials and dignitaries

"Five injuries" and "Seven injuries" (spleen caused by overeating

4. Two-part allegorical saying of "seven"

Hit the snake seven inches-hit the key

Fried chicken feathers with bean sprouts-at sixes and sevens

A lazy woman's sewing basket-it's a mess.

Two July and a half-haunted and haunted

Seven-foot man, six-foot door-have to bow their heads.

Seven capture Meng Huo-tell him to take orally, take orally.

The Seven Fairys Marry Yong Dong-Take the Initiative.

Pumpkins in July and August-the skin is old but the heart is not old.

Fishing sesame seeds in seven stone jars-it takes a lot of effort.

Three parts flour and seven parts water-very confused.

Fifteen wives are quarrelling-conflicting views.

Fifteen big men slept on the floor-littering.

Fifteen statues were placed on two floors, seven high and eight low.

There are 15 copper coins left on the ground-they are falling apart.

Fifteen buckets draw water-seven up and eight down.

Fifteen ships went out to sea-seven upside down and eight upside down.

Fifteen deaf people asked for directions-seven shouts and eight screams.

Fifteen people are chatting.

Seven-inch shoes with three-inch hard clothes

The seven fairies dream. -God knows.

Sixth, the homonym of "seven"

"Seven" is homophonic with "Qi", "Wife" and "Food", so there are some "secret words" on the Internet:

045 17 (you are my oxygen), 04527 (you are my beloved wife), 0487 (you are an idiot), 048756 1 (you are an idiot without medicine), 06547 (you make me angry).

There is such an interesting digital letter:

99:

8 179,7954。 76229,8406,9405,79 18934。 1.9 18 17。

(Uncle:

Don't drink, you'll be late. After drinking two or two glasses of wine, you either get angry or use force. If you eat wine, you will be killed by it. Don't eat any wine. )

Seven, jigsaw puzzle

Tangram is the most popular and common classic intellectual toy in China. Fu Qifeng, the most authoritative tangram expert in China, pointed out in her latest monograph "The World of Tangram" that the tangram should come from the measuring tool moments in ancient China 4000 years ago. Tangram is a game that uses seven regular triangles and rectangles of different sizes to spell out thousands of wonderful shapes. Because it is made up of seven-leaf puzzles, it is also called seven-clever painting. After it was introduced into Europe, it was called Tangtu, which was recognized as an intelligent game created by China people in the world. The earliest record of Tangram in history can be found in the 19th year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty (18 14). In the preface to Xú Zhēng's jigsaw puzzle map, Sanchak said: "Qiao Qi's cleverness, also known as Qiaotu, originated from Pythagoras' method." After more than 30 years' research, Fu Qifeng proved that Tangram originated from people's understanding of "moment" right triangle from the perspective of the origin of cultural mathematics. "The most striking feature of Tangram is that all graphics are based on moments, and the game of Tangram can be said to be an instant game," said Fu Qifeng. "Our ancestors had a soft spot for moments, and they knew, studied and applied them very early. The nature of moment and the application of Pythagorean theorem were first discussed in China's ancient mathematical masterpieces Zhou Kuai Shu Jing and Nine Chapters Arithmetic, which have an extremely important position in the history of world science. " In the new book The World of the Seven Fairies, Fu Qifeng provides 3,000 ancient books and answers of the Seven Fairies collected over the years, as well as 1000 new pictures created by Fu Tianzheng and Zeng Qingpu, and 900 original calligraphy works.

Eight, "seven" and nature

There are also many "seven" in nature. For example, a beam of sunlight passing through a prism will reflect the color of "seven"; Similarly, the rainbow is seven colors, and a week is seven days.

In ancient times, human beings were deeply mysterious about the ebb and flow of tides and the moon. At high tide, the moon is round and regular. At high tide, it takes seven days from the midline to the highest tide position; It takes seven days to return to the midline position from the highest tide position. Low tide: it takes seven days from the midline position to the low tide position; It takes seven days to rise from the lowest tide position to the middle line position. Seven days is the period of ebb and flow.

For the moon: from half moon to full moon, the time is seven days; From the full moon to the half moon, the time is seven days. It takes seven days to disappear from half a month; It's seven days from disappearing to half a month. Seven days is also the cycle of moon's profit and loss.

The ancients didn't understand that tides were caused by the moon, but they found the laws and connections. The ebb and flow of the tide, the full moon and the lack of the moon are synchronous, and they are all four seven days. Because there is no decimal system, the ancients have not expressed the number 28. Therefore, the number "seven" was chosen. Because the observation of the moon belongs to the prediction of astronomical phenomena, similar to the observation of the sun and stars, it is called a week, and the cycle means cycle. The Chinese pronunciation of Qi is homophonic with the beginning, end, period and song, indicating the meaning and cycle of going back and forth.

Nine, the "seven" in literature

There are also many "seven" in literature, such as seven poems and seven laws of ancient poetry. It is not clear why the ancient poetry developed to seven words, but the rhythmic beauty of the ancient poetry of seven words is recognized by everyone.

There are many famous figures in the history of literature, "Jian 'an Seven Scholars" is one of them. The name of "seven sons of Jian 'an" was first seen in Dian Lun Wen of the Three Kingdoms Wei Dynasty. Seven writers in Jian 'an period (196 ~ 220). It was Cao Pi who first put forward the "seven sons". He said in "Dian Lun Paper": "Today's literati include Lu Kongju, Guangling Chen Zhang, Wang Shen, Beihai Xu, Liu Chen Ruan Yu Yuan Yu, Runan Xingyang Delian, Dongping Liu Zhengong. Seven sons. There is nothing left to learn, nothing left to say, nothing left to say. " These seven people generally represent outstanding writers except Cao Shi and his son in Jian 'an period, so the theory of "seven sons" has been widely recognized by future generations.

Ten, "seven" and music

Perhaps "seven" itself has a special rhythm, which also shows its special role in music.

Music score refers to simple notation. There are two kinds of letter symbols and number symbols. The so-called genealogy generally refers to digital notation. Digital notation adopts the method of moving roll call, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 represent the seven basic levels in the scale, and the pronunciations are do, re, mi, fa, sol, la and si, and the rest are represented by O.

That's the point. In addition, many musical instruments such as guqin are seven-stringed.

It can be seen that "Seven" exists in many aspects of our lives and plays an important role. It is amazing that a small number of people have seen the whole world.