What are the three things that should not be lent? What does it mean that if you borrow the three things, your family will be ruined and you will die?

As the saying goes, "There are three things that you should not lend out, otherwise your family will be ruined." What are the three things that cannot be lent out? What does it mean that there are three things that you should not lend out, otherwise your family will be ruined?

What are the three things you should not borrow?

The three things that are not allowed to be borrowed are incense, medicine jars, and knives.

The first thing that cannot be loaned out is the incense we use for daily sacrifices and offerings at home. As we all know, China is a very ancient country and one of the four ancient civilizations with a long cultural history. During such a long period of development, the Chinese people have attached great importance to etiquette culture and are known throughout the world as a country of etiquette. Among the etiquette culture is the funeral culture that has been passed down to this day.

To put it more simply, during festivals, descendants of every family will go to worship their ancestors and comfort their deceased relatives. Since it is a sacrifice, tributes and incense are indispensable, and the most important of these is incense. People believe that this way they can communicate with deceased relatives silently and seek the protection of their ancestors. Therefore, incense is a very sacred symbol in people's eyes, and it also represents the prosperity of descendants.

Since there is such a meaning, incense cannot be lent out. If it is lent out, it means that the family's incense is destroyed, which also means that the family is facing the danger of extinction. You must know that in ancient times people attached great importance to the continuation of their descendants, which is the so-called inheritance of incense.

The ancients even said, "There are three unfilial acts, and the worst is to have no descendants," which shows how much importance people attached to passing on the family line. For this reason alone, people would not lend out the incense in their homes. Others also know the meaning of this and would not go to other people's homes to borrow incense and cause trouble.

The second item that cannot be lent out is the medicine pot that we can see on a daily basis, which is specially used to cook Chinese medicine. Of course, the medicine pots of the ancients would be more simple, basically earthenware pots. Many people may be curious about this. Why can't this ordinary medicine pot be given to others? Treating diseases and saving lives is a top priority. A medicine pot is not a valuable item. What is there to be reluctant about?

In fact, the reason why medicine jars were not lent out was not because people in ancient times were stingy, but there were other reasons. The first point was that the medicine jars used at home were basically made of fired clay. This kind of clay pottery jar has a more hidden feature, that is, when cooking Chinese medicine, the high temperature heating will absorb part of the medicinal effect of the medicine jar itself, which will also cause the medicine jar itself to contain the residual medicinal power that was once there.

Once you lend it to someone else, the medicine they use will definitely be different from yours. In addition, Chinese medicine is very particular about the medicinal materials used, and they are even more demanding in terms of their combination, because they are afraid that the characteristics of two or more herbs will produce new toxins in the process of fusion.

Therefore, Chinese medicine practitioners are very strict when formulating prescriptions and dispensing medicines. However, in the main process, doctors have no way of interfering with what they use to make the medicine. If they use medicine pots mixed with other medicines, the effects of the medicines may cancel each other out, and they may even produce some poison.

Therefore, whether considering it from your own perspective or from the other party's perspective, the medicine jar will not be lent out. The purpose is to avoid the problem of mixing different kinds of medicines, and to avoid the confusion of medicinal effects and the occurrence of deaths. I believe that no one wants to see such a tragedy! For the health of yourself and other people's families, this main medicine jar cannot be lent out, nor can it be borrowed from others. This has long become an established rule.

The third thing is even more bizarre, that is the knives used in our daily kitchens. Logically speaking, every family has knives that break, and there is nothing wrong with borrowing kitchen knives. So why were the ancients unwilling to lend these ordinary knives to the outside world?

The reason for this is mainly related to the economic development level and science and technology in ancient times. The technology in ancient times is really very different from that of today. The ancients could only meet people's normal living needs in smelting iron and refining other metals. Most of their achievements were used to serve the upper rulers and in wars.

This also led to a certain degree of difficulty in manufacturing iron tools and poor liquidity, so knives naturally became an indispensable but relatively expensive item in people's daily lives. After all, it was already very good to find a blacksmith shop in every village, and it took some time to forge a knife, so everyone basically only had one knife at home, and there would be no extra ones. If they lent it to others, they would have no knives to use.

Another point is that every household will have special marks on their knives. This is to avoid the loss of the knives. If you lend the knives to someone else and that person wants to use the knives to commit a crime, and if a murder occurs, the government will trace the knife back to you. Wouldn't that add a lot of trouble for no reason? You might even lose your life. So to be on the safe side, dangerous and valuable items like knives must be kept well and should not be lent out casually.