What do you mean by local tyrants? Why are they so popular recently?

Local tyrants, network language. It used to refer to the rich people with deep pockets and no taste in the countryside, but now it refers to those who are rich, irrational in consumption and like to show off.

The soil in "local tyrants" refers to land, and the luxury in "local tyrants" refers to wealth, that is, rich landlords, which originally referred to the big landlord class in feudal society with land ownership as the source of wealth.

Local tyrants are well known to Chinese people, which is related to the land reform and "fighting local tyrants to divide fields" during the revolutionary period. At that time, local tyrants were the targets of dictatorship and attack, because they were rich and heartless, exploiting poor peasants and destroying the revolution were their labels. Later, RMB players who have no brains to spend on online games are now used to ridicule those who have money and like to show off their wealth, especially those who pretend to be poor and show off their wealth. This meaning comes from sentences such as "local tyrants, let's be friends" and "local tyrants, beg for thighs". Some people call people who are more willing to spend money than themselves "local tyrants".

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The word "local tyrant" originated from Song Shu. Scholar Duan Shuangyin introduced that in ancient times, natives were aborigines; Noble people refer to talented, prestigious and powerful people. "Biography of Song Shu Yin Yan" records: "Uncle Bao, the son of Du Tan, is both a local tyrant and a local military expert." Here, as a local feudal clan force against the imperial regime, the following article "Local tyrant Liu Lun, sent by Taiwan Province, is humble and not suitable for unified supervision" shows the mountainism of not dispatching.

There is also a saying in the Book of Songs that "the natives strengthen the beam". Local tyrants emphasize local attributes, while Hao Min emphasizes social attributes. In short, they are representatives of civil forces. They may obtain the status of bureaucratic scholar-officials through various channels, or they may be reduced to poverty because of natural and man-made disasters.

Later, the word "local tyrant" gradually changed, but the popular word "local tyrant" has changed from a political symbol to a fashion symbol.

Reference materials? Local tyrants-Baidu encyclopedia