It is better to tear down ten temples than to regret a marriage. What is the specific allusion?

According to legend, there was a scholar named Ge in ancient times. Every time he passes by the school, he will definitely pass by a land temple. Every time he passes by, the gods in the earth temple will stand up and show their respect for this scholar, because Ge Dingding has a profound merit of winning the first prize, and he will be the best candidate for the first prize in the future.

But every time Ge Dingding passes the temple, the land god will stand up once, which is really troublesome. So, once, the land god asked the temple to put a screen in front of his idol so that Ge Dingding could not see it. If you can't see nature, you don't have to stand up.

After receiving the instructions, the temple master got everything ready and chose the date. However, just as the temple master was about to take action, the land god told the temple master in a dream that it was useless, because Ge Dingding often wrote divorce papers to others, which exhausted all the blessings. If he can't win the first prize, he doesn't have to stand up again.

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As the saying goes, "It is better to tear down ten temples than ruin a marriage", which means that it is a great sin to destroy other people's marriage, which is worse than tearing down ten temples.

Of course, this is just an analogy. For Taoism, after the gods created in temples are opened, it means that the invisible and magical true spirit in the universe is injected into the gods, and the gods have infinite spirituality. It is a deep sin to tear down the temple and destroy the idol.

Marriage had an extremely lofty position in ancient times. There is a passage in the Book of Rites: "Those who are not conscious of etiquette must be the ancestors of the temple and the next generation will be the successors, so the gentleman is more important."

The faint ceremony refers to the wedding ceremony. Marriage is not only a matter between husband and wife, but also bears the responsibility of worshipping the ancestral temple in the world and carrying on the family line in the afterlife. In ancient times dominated by Confucianism, marriage became the cornerstone of the social system at that time.

Therefore, destroying other people's marriage is also a kind of destruction to a harmonious society. Taoist book "Tai Shang Induction" holds that it is evil to destroy other people's marriage.