有的老年人到了七十三岁或八十四岁的时候,有如红日西坠,心惧不安,处在惶惶不可终日之中。因为孔子是七十三岁、孟子是八十四岁逝世的,当时人们对这二位圣人十分崇拜和迷信,认为普通百姓活不到圣人的寿命,所以民间就有了“七十三、八十四,阎王不叫自己去”之说,从此,代代相传,流行甚广,害人匪浅。 When some seniors reach the age of seventy-three or eighty-four, they feel as if they are falling from the sun and are in a state of uneasy anxiety. They are in constant danger. Because Confucius was seventy-three and Mencius passed away at eighty-four. At that time, people were extremely adored and superstitious about these two saints, believing that ordinary people could not live the life-time of saints, so the people had “73, Eighty-four, Yama do not call themselves to go, ”said, since then, from generation to generation, widespread, harmful.