People in China generally compare 250 to a fool and so on. . What is the origin of this?

In daily life, people often call people who don't speak seriously, do things seriously, do things casually and make a fool of themselves as fools or "250".

One is a story from the Warring States period. Su Qin was a lobbyist during the Warring States Period. He was deeply impressed by the six countries. He was very powerful at that time, but he also made many enemies. Later, he was finally killed in Qi. The king of Qi was very angry and wanted to avenge Su Qin. But I couldn't catch the murderer for a while, so I thought of a plan. I cut Tai Su's head off and hung it on the city gate, with a placard next to it saying, "Su Qin is an insider, and I hope to get a reward for killing him." As soon as the poster was put up, four people claimed to have killed Su Qin themselves. Qi Wang said: "This is not allowed to be faked!" All four insisted that they did it. The king of Qi said, "One thousand two hundred gold, how much do you four get each?" The four people said in unison: "One person is 250." The king of Qi was furious and said, "Somebody, push these four' 250s' out and behead them!" The word "250" was handed down in this way.

There is also a saying that it has something to do with pushing out nine.

Originally, Pai Gow (an ancient gambling tool) contains two cards, namely "Baner" (four points) and "Wu Yao" (six points), which together constitute ten points, which is called "Shooting Ten" in the gambling activities of pushing Pai Gow. It is the smallest point in the ninth row, and anyone is bigger than it. It can't "eat" any cards, so people use the word "Banerwu" to refer to those who can't do anything well and can't control anything. After a long time, I will call "two boards and five" "two hundred and fifty". In Hong Kong, it is also customarily called "Erwuzai".

The origin of 250

Once upon a time, there was a scholar who studied hard to get fame, but he never won an election in his life and even his son was not born. In his later years, the old scholar was finally disheartened and indifferent to fame and fortune, so he was happy with his son and had a double birthday in his later years.

The scholar recalled the success or failure of his life and couldn't help feeling deeply, so he named his two sons: one was success and the other was failure.

From then on, the scholar studied behind closed doors at home and lived in harmony.

One day, the scholar told his wife, "I'm going to the market." You urge your second son to write at home, the eldest son writes 300, and the youngest son writes 200. "

After the scholar came back from the fair, he asked his second son how to study hard at home. His wife replied, "I wrote it, but it's not enough. It's more than enough. Both of them are 250! "