The Dream Interpretation Culture of Ancient China

Dream culture is an indispensable and important part of ancient Chinese culture. Although it is difficult to be elegant, it is widely spread among the people. Dreamsmeaning Book is a book of dream interpretation that is spread among the people. It is difficult to find the art of dream interpretation in the history of art and mathematics. It is listed here because the dream culture is very popular among the people and can predict good or bad from dreams.

According to the content of dreams, the ancients divided dreams into the following 15 categories:

Straight dream means what happens when you dream, and you see whoever you dream. Human dreams are symbolic, some are implicit, some are straightforward, and the latter are straight dreams. If you and your friends don’t see each other, dreaming at night or seeing it during the day, it’s a straight dream.

Like a dream, the meaning of a dream is expressed through symbolic means in the content of the dream. Everything we dream of is expressed through symbolism. When you dream of reaching the sky, you can't actually reach the sky. Here, the sky has a symbolic meaning. For example, the sky symbolizes masculinity, dignity, and emperor; the earth symbolizes femininity, motherhood, fertility and so on.

Because of dreams due to the stimulation of the military officer during sleep. "; Strong yin-qi dreams of wade into the water, strong yang-qi dreams of wading into the fire , and dreams of snakes while sleeping, and dreams of flying birds with hair"; This is because of dreams.

Dreaming dreams are dreams made by imagining, and are the product of inner spiritual activity. It is usually said that "Thinking of the day and dreaming"; that is, dreaming.

A dream caused by a mental state is a dream made by concentrating on the mind, which makes it close to dreaming.

Sexual dreams are dreams caused by differences in human temperament and likes and dislikes. Sexual dreams are not mainly about the reasons for dreaming, but about the dreamer's attitude towards dreams.

Renmeng Renmeng means that the same dream has different meanings to different people.

Feeling dreams Dreams caused by climatic factors are feeling dreams. That is, because of the outside climate, it makes people feel and dream.

Shimeng is at four o'clock, and dreams caused by seasonal factors are Shimeng. "; Spring dreams happen, summer dreams are brilliant, autumn and winter dreams are familiar, this is also called time dreams";

The anti-dream is the opposite dream, the cathode is good, the anode is bad, it is called the anti-dream. In folk interpreting dreams, there are often sayings that are contrary to the facts in dreams. In ancient classics, there are also many anti-dream records. There are also allusions of Huangliang’s beautiful dreams in idioms, Tang.; Shen Jiji in the Pillow , said Lu I was born in a dream and enjoyed the glory and wealth. When I woke up, the steamed yellow beam rice was not yet cooked, and it was nothing. It can be seen that anti-dreams occupies a large proportion in people's dreams.

Ji dream is also a dream, and there are many records of such dreams in ancient books. People think that gods or ancestors use dreams to foretell us good and bad luck.

Dreaming means that A’s good or bad luck appears in B’s dream, and B’s good or bad luck appears in A’s dream, or the same dream is induced in a different place. Dreaming is a dream formed by the induction between people.

Turning dreams turning dreams means that the content of dreams is changeable and erratic.

Sick dreams Sick dreams are dream signs of human disease. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, it is a dream caused by the imbalance of the yin and yang and the five elements of the human body.

Ghost dreams are nightmares, terrible dreams. Ghost dreams are mostly caused by incorrect sleeping posture or due to certain diseases of the body.

The traditional Mengzhan culture in our country is the result of the research on dreams under the condition of underdeveloped science and technology in ancient times. The Menglin Xuanjie in the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty was a master of dream studies and a rare and precious material for modern research on dream studies. The Dreamsmeaning Book, which has been widely spread among the people, is also one of our materials for studying dreams.

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