Proverbs about work is a very special kind of literary work. And, I must say, one of the most ancient. What are these proverbs? When they appeared, why so firmly entered our everyday life?
Ancestral Experience
Proverbs about work are primarily folk art. They appeared a long time ago, hundreds, even thousands of years ago. Most sources claim that this genre arose even at a time when a primitive communal system was just beginning to take shape. That is, many years before writing appeared. Just think how ancient this art form is! And since then it has been passed down from generation to generation, improving and developing.
Proverbs about work are also an accumulation of a wealth of life experience, which was transmitted by the wiser and older to their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. These are not just phrases with any meaning. This is also what had a huge educational effect on the younger generation. It was labor and work that was made from a Neanderthal man - you need to remember this. Our ancestors made incredible efforts in order to live fully, and not to exist. It was the work that helped them to develop and improve. Only labor and nothing more.
To make it easier
People sweating in the fields at the rich and remodeling dirty, and even black work, needed somewhere to take strength and motivation. Without the second, there could be no first. But where to get them if the occupation was not at all inspired and, as they would say in our time, there were no prospects? I had to console myself. So there were expressions that prompted action, which later became winged, and then grew into proverbs.
“A man is great in labor”, “Work more - they will share you remember”, “The work of the master praises” - these are the most striking examples that came to us from Russian folk art. And as you can see, expressions appeal not to remuneration, but to human qualities. Thinking about what benefits and makes it better, a person worked better, with a lighter conscience and a feeling that he needed it first.
Verbal motivation
Proverbs about work really carried a semantic and motivational load. To make it easier for a person to work, he also needed to know that he would be due for it. Many proverbs and sayings about work have been created just for this. Russian savvy people came up with expressions such as “Work is black, money is white”, “Work until sweat, eat bread for hunting”, “Bitter work, but bread is sweet” and many others. Thinking about the result, the man gave all his best, was not lazy - and this was important.
