Why is pregnancy called pregnancy? Is there any allusion in this?

"pregnant with liujia" is a Taoist vocabulary. Six Jia refers to the six Jia years in the chronology of cadres and branches used by the ancients, namely, Jia Zi, Jia Xu, Shen Jia, Wu Jia, Chen Jia and Jia Yin. They ushered in a new decade in the sky.

Let's talk about the chronology of trunk and branch. The chronology of trunk and branch is a unique chronology in ancient China, which consists of ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches in a certain order. Ten-day dry A, B, C, D, E, Si, G, Xin, Ren and Gui; The twelve earthly branches include Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai. The chronological method of stem and branch refers to the combination of the initials A of heavenly stem and A of earthly branch as "Jiazi", followed by "Ugly B" as the second year and "Bingyin" as the third year. Heavenly stems and earthly branches's collocation is always odd-odd, even-even, even-even ... until the last "Guihai" is the sixtieth year. Once every 60 years, it's called Jiazi, and it goes on and on. Why use the name of the branch to refer to pregnancy? There are several sayings about "pregnant with a wife":

"Liu Jia's Book of Watching Taiwan" is in the third capital of Sui Shu, and time creates everything. A woman is pregnant with a fetus. According to legend, Jia Zi, Jia Yin, Chen Jia, Wu Jia, Shen Jia and JOE are the top ten combinations of heavenly stems and earthly branches, which is the day when God created everything and women are most likely to get pregnant.

The ancients believed that these six days were the time when God created everything, symbolizing the birth of new life.

These days, women are the most likely to get pregnant, so a woman's pregnancy is called "pregnancy".

It means Liu Jia, also called Hua Jia, which means a reincarnation of 60 Jia Zi. Liu Jia is 60 years old, which refers to the ancient old man, because he just returned to the first year of his birth. Because the average life expectancy of ancient people is not as long as that of modern people-about 50 or 60 years old, it is also used to represent a person's life expectancy.

"Pregnancy" means a new life in the belly. And in the first half of a child's life, his face is wrinkled, just like the wrinkled "old man". The ancients usually thought that he was old enough to live a long life, and called pregnancy a pregnant woman, which also meant that the child lived a long life.

Hide five, but not six. Not everyone can tell that someone is pregnant before five months of pregnancy, but they can tell that they are pregnant when they are six months old, that is, hiding five and not hiding six.

According to the saying of "wearing liujia", "A" means "A". The ancients understood all kinds of inconveniences during pregnancy. The abdomen is as heavy as the "armor" worn by men in wartime, and women are like wearing six pieces of armor. All kinds of difficulties and inconveniences during pregnancy should be understood only by people who have given birth to children.

In the system of Taoist mythology, the symbol of seeking children is "Six Ding and Six Jia", which is the six mentioned above, and the "Six Ding" refers to Ding Mao, Ding Si, Ding Wei, Ding You, Ding Hai and Ding Chou. These twelve gods are the gods in charge of heavenly stems and earthly branches, and they are regarded as the slaves of the Emperor of Heaven, who can "do evil and control ghosts and gods".

Taoism has "house art", and Taoist people can use corresponding symbols to call it. And "Liu Jia" stands for pure yang, so the ancients often used it as a symbol of seeking children. Over time, "pregnancy" has become a general term for pregnancy. Moreover, the ancients had a beautiful wish, that is, their children were reborn as immortals, and their children were auspicious and fatal.