“镜子对着床”为什么会被老人骂

In many old people's homes, mirrors must not face the bed.

The elders give many reasons: if you wake up at night and open your eyes, seeing a shadow in the mirror can frighten you; mirrors can capture a person's soul, and since the soul leaves the body during sleep, it can be sucked into the mirror, causing nightmares and poor sleep. In feng shui, there is also a concept called "mirror sha" (镜煞): a mirror facing the bed reflects away a person's qi, making sleep restless.

There is also the saying that you shouldn't look in a mirror in the middle of the night, because a mirror reflects another world, and at midnight, what you see might not be yourself.

In some places, when someone in the household dies, mirrors are covered with cloth or turned around, for fear that the deceased's soul might see its own reflection, think it is still alive, and refuse to leave; also, for fear that the next person might see the deceased in the mirror.

This custom exists not only in China. In Victorian-era Britain, when someone died in the house, mirrors were covered and clocks were stopped. In Jewish households during mourning, mirrors are covered with cloth for seven days. Some parts of India have similar practices. The reasons vary, but the meaning is much the same: during a funeral period, neither the dead nor the living should look into a mirror.

As for why mirrors frighten people, some psychologists say it's because at night the light is dim; when you've just woken up, your brain isn't fully awake, and seeing a moving black shadow in the mirror, you momentarily fail to recognize it as yourself and get a fright.

So the simplest solution is not to let the bed face the mirror; if you can't move it, at night take a piece of cloth and cover it up.

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