The origin of "wife" and "husband"

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a famous man named Mai Aixin. Seeing that his wife was old and looked bad, he had the idea of abandoning her and making a new love, and wrote a couplet on his desk: "When the lotus flower declines, the fallen leaves become old lotus roots." Being seen by his wife, she saw her husband's idea of abandoning the old and welcoming the new from the couplet, so she continued a couplet: "The ecliptic is ripe, and the rice is now new." This pair of couplets is not only neat and appropriate, but also novel and popular. And "new grain" and "bride" are homophonic, which is very interesting. Mai Aixin read his wife's second couplet and was moved by her agile thinking and love, so she gave up the idea of abandoning the old and welcoming the new. When the wife saw her husband change his mind, she did not forget the old feelings, but wrote, "My husband is very fair." Mai Aixin also wrote with a pen: "My wife is a woman's heart."

This educational story soon spread and became a story from generation to generation. From then on, the words "husband" and "wife" came into being.

■ About the origin of "husband"

Usually when people talk about husband and wife, the husband is called "husband" and the wife is called "wife". These two terms and customs are closely related to today.

It turns out that in some tribes in our country, there is a custom of robbing marriage. When a woman chooses a husband, it mainly depends on whether the man is tall enough. On the whole, she is ten feet tall. At that time, ten feet was about seven feet (at that time, one foot was about six inches now), and with this ten-foot-tall husband, I could resist the strong man from robbing the marriage. According to this situation, a woman calls the man she married "husband".

■ The origin of the wife

"Wife" was first seen in the Book of Changes: "The husband is in the official position, but the wife is missing." But in ancient times, wife was not a general term for a man's spouse. "Book of Rites under Quli" contains: "The son of heaven is the queen, the vassal is the wife, the doctor is the wife, and Shu Ren is the wife." It seems that the "wife" at that time was just the spouse of ordinary people and had no identity. Later, "wife" gradually became the general term for all men's spouses.

"Wife" has many nicknames. In ancient times, regardless of the size of the official position, wives were generally called "children". Dr. Qing's first wife was called "my wife"

My wife is generally called "my wife". A wife is also called a "wife", which means a person who helps her husband deal with the internal affairs of the family. "My wife" became a good wife. In the past, I humbly called my wife "stupid" and "mean". In the higher class, the title of wife reflects the hierarchy. For example, the wife of a vassal is called "Xiao Jun", and the wife of a vassal minister after the Han Dynasty is called Madame. During the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the mother or wife of a senior official was also sealed, and was called the imperial daughter.

■ Li Ao version of "The Origin of Husband"

In Taiwan Province Province, it is popular for girls to talk about my husband on TV. He is called husband. According to the standards of the Qing dynasty, this word cannot be used. What was the husband like in the Qing Dynasty? The husband of the Qing Dynasty was a prostitute in a brothel. If a prostitute scolds a prostitute, what does it mean to say that you are with her husband tonight? Husband refers to eunuchs, palace eunuchs and eunuchs. He is a man with sexual desire and no performance. He can't have sex, but he has sexual impulses. So what? He is the most skillful, biting your prostitute's meat, which is dead, so when the prostitute curses the prostitute, when the prostitute scolds each other, he says that you will accompany her husband tonight, that is to say, accompany this man with no reproductive skills to torture you. But today that girl publicly said on TV that my husband was very kind to me, and my husband became his husband. This sounds like a joke of the Qing Dynasty. Although the word "husband" appeared in The Journey to the West, the Monkey King was talking about her husband. However, the semantics of this real husband stereotype appeared in brothels in the Qing Dynasty. From a woman, all from a prostitute. Now, her husband comes from the mouth of a good woman, and it is not used to refer to eunuchs, not eunuchs, but husbands.

The origin of "married couple"

The saying of "married couple" comes from an interesting story: it is said that an ancient emperor was worried that his beard was too short to sleep the night before he ascended the throne (it was considered that the length of his beard was an important symbol of a man's talent and courage in ancient times). What shall we do? The queen beside her takes care of it. She cut off her hair and carefully attached it to the emperor's beard, so that the short beard grew into a beard overnight.

When the emperor ascended the throne the next day, he stroked his beard and accepted the worship of ministers with great pride. How awesome! When all the ministers saw the emperor's beard passing through his navel overnight, they all marveled that "it was the only thrill"! The queen cut her hair and gave the emperor a beard, and the emperor naturally took care of her. This is the origin of "married couples".

■ The origin of husband and wife lung slices

"Husband and wife lung slice" is the most outstanding of the "lung slices". The founders are Guo Chaohua and Zhang Tianzheng. During the Anti-Japanese War, the couple walked the streets, carrying baskets and selling. The couple looked cool and dressed neatly. Their "lung slices" are different. They are not only exquisite in materials, fine in processing and hygienic, but also excellent in seasoning. During the day, the couple bought raw materials such as tripe, beef and scalp, and at night, they carefully cut, picked, sliced and cut under the lamp. Due to ingenuity, the "lung slices" cut by the couple are as white as paper, with red tongue as flowers and transparent and yellowish scalp; In addition, the ingredients are particularly complete (including red oil, pepper, sesame, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate, excellent soy sauce and fresh celery festival, etc.). ), so the cold-mixed "lung slices" are deep red in color, bright in color, delicious in color and flavor, and are deeply loved by diners. People in the streets and alleys saw the couple carrying baskets and carrying burdens, and they all affectionately called them "husband and wife lung slices"

Later, the couple accumulated a certain amount of money, so they set up a stall instead, rented a shop next to anrakuji, and publicly hung up the signboard of "Husband and wife lung slices", becoming the most famous "lung slices" shop in Chengdu. Now, the "husband and wife lung slices" have evolved from the original snacks into very distinctive cold dishes in Sichuan cuisine, which are characterized by refreshing fragrance, not greasy or sticky, and very tasty, especially with wine.