The evolution of the proverb "Measure once - cut once" and the benefits of folk wisdom today

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Russian culture is one of the most complex, but at the same time meaningful and vibrant in the world. Folk wisdom is especially distinguished, which have been passed down from generation to generation for many centuries through proverbs, sayings, songs, epics and fairy tales. Many poets tried to put the same depth and meaning of the lines into their poems in order to remain eternal for the Russian people, but none of them succeeded the way the people did.

How does wisdom begin?

The depth of the people's mind is an unsurprising fact: the totality of an open soul and the ability of everyone in the society of the largest country to find extraordinary solutions to problems, doing it as meaningfully as possible, led to the fact that the council of one evolved and modernized into a common one. This is how many folk wisdoms were formed, for example, fairy tales and songs, as well as poems and everyone's favorite proverbs. For example, one of the most ingenious: “Measure once - cut once”, was eventually modified into a different meaning, where it is already recommended to measure seven times.

So how many times do you need to measure before cutting?

Initially, folk wisdom, making it clear the price of decisions and actions, advised everyone to think about their actions. If a person measured and immediately cut off, then he is confident in what he is doing. This is exactly what the proverb “Measure once, cut once” says.

But realizing that not everyone thinks about their actions, many in Russia began to say differently: "Measure seven times - cut once." So the wise of those times reminded that one should think several times before doing something or making this or that decision. This made the not too deep proverb “Measure once, cut once” into eternal wisdom, which is still quite relevant today. How much? That's another question.

Geniuses of the past for us present

It's amazing how deep the meaning of the proverb "Measure seven times - cut once." After all, this advice is given not only to tailors and seamstresses, but to everyone! But where does this wisdom apply?

Certainly, an individual who knows how to analyze the various consequences of his actions will be a resounding success in any society. Having thought through each of his actions, a person can not only manage his life, but also manipulate how other people will treat him, what income he will have and whether he can minimize the number of his failures. This type of individual, like the trickster, makes the most of this skill and controls every moment of his life, thinking many timestheir actions and words.

The application of this old proverb is very wide. Traders, risking their money, must use a variety of indicators before purchasing any option. Players taking part in World Of Tanks esports competitions think about every shot and meter of movement on the map. Of course, politicians analyze what they should say before the elections in order to be successful. Poets edit their poems several times before giving them to people. Here is what one of them said about it, “Paradise for yourself” (Shamrai SK):

I saw a lot among your souls, But only in my mind!

Thinking about how to get a decent jackpot, Measured at night - and cut during the day!

Solzhenitsyn also wrote a poem based on this phrase, in which he talked about the value of these words for each person.

Of course, this proverb has been mentioned in many films and poems. Even the songs talked about the value of thinking about decisions, for example, Denis Kore, a member of Vulgar Ton, in the proverbial track of the same name.