As we all know, the traffic was inconvenient in the past. Many people come from afar, visiting relatives and friends or doing business, and taking exams on foot. They have to go out early in the morning and take dry food, travel expenses and even gold and silver jewelry. In the long journey, you will inevitably pass through many barren hills and mountains. If you can't see the village and inn before dark, you can only spend the night in the wild. At this time, if there is an empty house nearby, it is definitely the best choice for the night, which is better than staying in a dark cemetery without building anything. Is this old saying backwards?
In fact, this sentence still has some truth. Most of those empty houses that have been uninhabited for a long time will have weasels, mice, poisonous snakes, bedbugs and other things nesting in them. If people go in and stay, they will be in trouble if they are frightened at night. Moreover, the empty old houses are in disrepair, and people spend the night in them on windy and rainy days. What if the house collapses? What is even more frightening is that there will be some robbers, lunatics, tramps and so on. Hidden in empty houses and old houses. If they kill for money, it may be the end of a tragic death elsewhere. Ordinary cemeteries in the wild are not places frequented by robbers. Even if they pass by at night and see someone sleeping in the grave, they will only think it is a ghost and be scared to death. It's too late to escape, so they dare to harm. Therefore, this old saying has some truth, but it may not be applicable now. In the past, sleeping in a grave was safer than staying in an empty house. In addition to the disrepair of the house, it is easy to collapse, and the big reason is that the robbers took the opportunity to rob money and kill people in the empty house. So I think today's sentence is more about warning everyone to take good care of their belongings when they go out, not to show off their wealth and pay more attention to safety.