Does sneezing really mean that someone misses you?

Sneezing reflex, commonly known as "sneezing" or "sneezing", is a defensive reflex action caused by nasal mucosa stimulation. However, in traditional folk customs, it has been regarded as a sign of some abnormal behavior or the development trend of things, and various explanations for it make people fall into a fog.

Sneezing means someone is thinking about you. This theory is proved by The Book of Songs and related explanations. For example, Mr. Chen Zizhan thinks that this poem is based on folk songs and belongs to the subject of flirting between men and women. In the poem, "I can't sleep when I talk, but I can't sleep when I want to talk", which is interpreted as "I can't sleep when I wake up and sneeze when I think". Before him, Han Zhengxuan commented on this: "I can't sleep because of worry. If a woman (you) thinks of me, I will sneeze." As if you missed me too, I sneezed. Su Shi's poem Yuan Ri in Song Dynasty said, "Who is Xiao Lai?" It can be understood according to Zheng Xuan's annotation or Chen Zizhan's literal translation. But although there is a difference between missing and being missed, there is no doubt that it belongs to family. So far, this is a common phenomenon in rural areas: a child sneezes, and his mother says, "Grandma is thinking about you", and then she plans to go back to her parents' house to visit relatives-sneezing is a sign that someone misses me.

When you say sneeze, someone is "talking about me" Song Hong Mai's Essays on Rong Zhai, Volume 4: "Those who sneeze a lot today will spit clouds:' Some people say I am', especially women." Ma Song Yongqing's Lazy True Son Volume III: "The popular saying is that people sneeze at people." Because some people say that I want to spit out a spell, it can be seen that this "saying me" should be understood as "speaking ill of me (or gossiping)". In Yuan Kang's "jy's Shame" drama, two bachelors living near Liangshanpo pretended to be Song Jiang and Lu and robbed the daughter of Wang Lin, an old wine seller. When the truth was exposed by Liangshan heroes and they were ready to punish the impostor, the bachelors sneezed, "It's so hot that someone has to say something", which is also a sign that someone is speaking ill of me or gossiping.

Sneezing is a good sign. For example, The Record of Yanbei said: "Emperor Rong sneezed with the Empress Dowager, and the attendants and servants shouted' Governing Exile' in unison, while the Jews shouted' Long live'." To this day, some people still have a similar custom: when someone sneezes, he immediately cheers and wishes Ji: "Good! Longevity! "

Others say the opposite-sneezing is an ominous sign that something bad is coming. What others call "long life" is not to wish good luck, but to pray for timely peace, similar to Hong Mai's "I will spit out my wishes". For example, Liu Dong and Yu Yi are recording in "A Brief View of the Imperial City" that on the fifth drum of New Year's Day, people sneeze in bed, so they must get up at once, or they will get sick. Getting up is a remedy. Some people have long questioned this statement: if sneezing is an ominous sign, then people who sneeze should find ways to remedy it in time, so why wait for others to pray? So some people speculate that it may be that the ancients thought sneezing was harmful to themselves, so they had to say something to eliminate the disaster. Other countries have similar customs.

It is said that sneezing time should be used to see what happened and what happened. For example, Lu of Jing said that sneezing on the second day means eating and drinking, ugly day means worrying, cloudy day means foreign affairs, Mao day means auspicious, Chen day means getting married or meeting, fourth day means talking about right and wrong, noon day means visiting happily, doomsday means no bad luck, Shen day means nothing, and unitary day means guests are coming. Is there a causal explanation? number

From the above theories and quoted materials, it can be seen that the custom marked by sneezing has existed at least in the era of the Book of Songs, and may be traced back to a longer time. Sixteen volumes of sneezing and tinnitus miscellaneous notes in Hanshu were basically lost in Sui and Tang Dynasties. Therefore, all kinds of miscellaneous sayings fabricated by people in the Tang and Song Dynasties and later may not be the reliable basis for exploring the origin, formation and cultural significance of this ancient custom. In the process of folk inheritance, various variations may occur, which are different from the original appearance, resulting in various explanations, and many related data records can also draw different conclusions. From this point of view, it is a mystery whether the custom of sneezing was formed on the basis of what kind of knowledge or experience the ancients had, and how to make a summary and infer one or more possibilities on this basis.