The meaning and origin of "250"

Word explanation

Pinyin: èr bǎi wǔ Simplified Pinyin: ebw

Synonyms: Stupid, stupid Antonyms:

Usage: as Subject, object, attributive; used for verbal swearing

Explanation: Refers to a stupid, ignorant, stubborn and reckless person

Source: "Twenty Years" by Wu Jianren of the Qing Dynasty "The Strange Situation I Witnessed" Chapter 83: "It turns out that he is a scholar from the south of the Yangtze River. He donated 250 yuan to his fellow intellectuals and was fooling around outside."

Example: Wang Shuo's "Stewardess": "You Don’t play tricks with me~.”

The following words: half-hearted half

Another meaning: lt; square gt; half-full of vinegar

[Edit this paragraph ]Origin and legend

Chinese people often call fools or people who speak rudely, do not take things seriously, deal with things casually, and like to make a fool of themselves as "two hundred and five". According to research, there are roughly the following possible sources:

[Edit this paragraph] 1. Originating from the story of the Warring States Period

During the Warring States Period, there was a historical figure named Su Qin, who was a strategist. . He persuaded the six countries of Han, Wei, Zhao, Qi, Yan, and Chu to unite and form an alliance to deal with the common enemy - Qin. As a result, he was appreciated by the king of the great country and was named prime minister. He was known as " "The Prime Minister of the Six Kingdoms".

While Su Qin was actively serving in Qi State, he met an assassin. Su Qin was stabbed in the chest and died that night. King Qi was very angry when he heard the news and immediately ordered the arrest of the murderer. But the assassin has escaped without a trace, where can he catch him? King Qi had an idea and came up with a clever plan to "lead the snake out of the hole". He ordered Su Qin's head to be cut off, and his body was whipped with a whip until his head and face were covered in blood. Then the bloody head was hung at the city gate, and a yellow list was posted, which read: "Su Qin is a big traitor, and he deserves to die. King Qi has always wanted to kill him, but he didn't think of any good way. Fortunately, there is a righteous man who can kill him for the people." The king of Qi issued a decree to reward him with a thousand taels of gold, and invited righteous men to come and receive the reward." As soon as the list came out, someone took the bait. Four people came to receive the reward, and they all insisted that Su Qin killed him himself. So the soldiers "invited" them to the King of Qi. When King Qi saw the four of them, he gritted his teeth with hatred. But he still asked seriously: "How do you four divide these one thousand taels of gold?" The four people didn't know that they had fallen into the trap, and they were so happy that they immediately replied: "This is easy, 1000÷4=250, Two hundred and five each."

When King Qi heard that they were still thinking about the reward, he was furious: "Push these four two hundred and five and kill them!" These four people became scapegoats and were killed. . The real assassin, said to be a killer sent by Qin State, had long since fled back to Qin State. Since then, the folk saying "two hundred and five" has been left, and people often use it to describe fools, idiots and people who are deceived by wealth and lust.

[Edit this paragraph] 2. Originating from folklore

Once upon a time, there was a scholar who spent all his sleep and food and studied hard in order to obtain fame. However, he never passed the exam in his whole life, not even his son. None of them were born. In his later years, the old scholar finally became disheartened and indifferent to fame and fortune. Instead, he was blessed with a son and a daughter. When the scholar recalled his life's success and failure, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion, so he named his two sons: one was called Chengshi and the other was called Banshi. From then on, the scholar taught classes behind closed doors at home and lived a happy life. One day, the scholar told his wife: "I'm going to the market for a walk. You can supervise the second son to write at home. The eldest son should write three hundred words, and the younger son should write two hundred words." After the scholar came back from the market, he asked the second son how they were doing at home. The old wife He replied: "I wrote it, but it failed more than succeeded. Both are two hundred and five!"

[Edit this paragraph] 3. Originating from pushing Pai Gow

Pai Gow It is a kind of gambling equipment, which has two cards, "Erban" (four points) and "Mowu" (six points). These two cards together equal ten points. In the gambling activity of pushing Pai Gow , known as "Dead Ten".

It is the smallest dot in Pai Gow. No one is bigger than it. It cannot "eat" any tiles, so later people used the word "Er Ban Wu" (abbreviation of Er Ban and Mo Wu) to jokingly call everything. People who can't do well and can't be controlled. As time went by, the "two board five" became "two hundred five".

[Edit this paragraph] 4. Originated from arcade games

Originated from the popular arcade game "Street Fighter" in the 1990s. (street fighter)", the term "two hundred and five" was also spread at that time. It is a fighting game. When one party defeats the other party with full health, the system will display an English PERFECT. Because the system's pronunciation is not standard (the game is made in Japan and dubbed by Japanese), the pronunciation is very similar to "two hundred and five", so it became popular. . To this day, in fighting arcade games (such as The King of Fighters), PERFECT is still called "Two Hundred and Five", as friends who played arcades in the 1990s know. As for why "two hundred and five" now means fool, it's not the original intention!

[Edit this paragraph] 5. Geforce GTS250 graphics card from nVIDIA

Background: IT graphics company nVIDIA launched the 8800GT graphics card with the core codename G92 at the end of 2007. The G92 core has two processes, 65nm and 55nm, with 128 complete SPs. The castrated version has 96SP and 112SP models. The video memory width is 256bit, and the castrated version has 192bit. Since the G92 was released, NV has put an emotional vest on it. It was initially called 8800GTS, and later renamed 9800GTX, with an additional " " sign. Finally, due to pressure from ATI Rv770, it was renamed GTS250, and 8800GT was renamed 9800GT and GTS240 accordingly, and 8800GS was renamed 9600GSO. NVIDIA plans to hold a grand launch conference for GTS250 on March 3, 2009.

Impact:

1. For GTS250, Chinese graphics card fans have completely different reactions. A fans sneered, N fans were dumbfounded, and wallflowers cheered.

2. This marks the decline of nVIDIA's leadership position in the computer graphics industry.

3. N Fan was given a 250 reputation by the company he admired, nVIDIA, which was really helpless and became a source of ridicule for others.

[Edit this paragraph] 6. Other explanations

According to a middle school Chinese document, ancient people divided silver into taels. Generally, five hundred taels was an integer unit and was wrapped in paper. At that time, a package of five hundred taels was called "a letter", and two hundred and fifty taels was a "half package" of silver. Because it was homophonic with "half-crazy", people later also called crazy people "two hundred and five".

Once upon a time there was a fool whose family was in ruins. One day he went to sell a family heirloom, and it was written on the treasure "Sold out for 258 taels." However, when he was selling, someone bargained with him and insisted on only giving 250 taels. He thought 250 would be 250, so he sold 250 taels of gold. , many people laughed at him for asking for 8 taels of gold, and he was a fool. Since then, people have called people who are confused two hundred and five.

In modern times, it is said that some people learn to sing the songs of Xing Wu Bai, but they can't imitate them. Others say he can count at most half a five hundred.

In the Tengzhou dialect of Shandong Province, "half-ripened (pronounced as 'half-floating')" means "two hundred and five". Here, fools or people who speak improperly, do not take things seriously, deal with things casually, and like to make a fool of themselves are called "half-ripened" (pronounced 'half-floating')".

[Edit this paragraph] Speaking of "two hundred and five"

"Two hundred and five" is not a very old word. Needless to say, "Erya", "Shuowen" and "Kangxi Dictionary" are not According to the records, even "Ci Yuan" and "Ci Hai" are nowhere to be found. Only "Modern Chinese Dictionary" contains entries, but does not indicate the source. It only reminds one sentence: "[Fang] half a bottle of vinegar."

"Half a bottle of vinegar" comes from the Yuan drama "Sima Xiangru's Notes on the Bridge": "Nowadays, ordinary people on the street read a few sentences of books and chew on words, and they are called half a bottle of vinegar." "The Sixty-Fourth Chapter of "The Story of the Stone" in the Qing Dynasty has: "There is another scholar who is half a bottle of vinegar. "What is a "half-bottle of vinegar", that is, "a bottle of dissatisfaction and a half-bottle dangling", which is a metaphor for someone who has a little knowledge but is willing to show off in front of others. It is also called "half-baked". In fact, "Modern Han" is only half right and makes a "detour." "Two hundred and five" refers to the "number of money" and is more closely related to "half-hearted".

Just like "Madaha" comes from Ma Sanli's cross talk "Buying a Monkey", the saying "two hundred and five" means "amount of money". I'm afraid we have to find the root of it in literary and artistic works. In earlier written records, we can see that Wu Jianren in the Qing Dynasty wrote the 80th chapter of "The Strange Current Situation Witnessed in Twenty Years" (published between 1903 and 1905). Three times: "It turns out that he is a poor scholar from the south of the Yangtze River. He donated 250 yuan to his fellow intellectuals and was fooling around outside. "In 1913, Shanghai Asia Film Company produced the short film "Two Hundred and Five White Xiang Temple" directed by Zhang Shichuan. Ding Chuhe starred in the protagonist "Two Hundred and Five", a farmer who entered Shanghai for the first time. Because he did not understand the rules, he was full of stupidity and farce continued. , was played vividly and left a deep impression on people. After that, "Two Hundred and Five" spread like wildfire and became popular all over the world. In 1924, Chen Duxiu mentioned "Two Hundred and Five" in his article "Recovering the Right to Education". In 1949, Shanghai Datong Film Company filmed it again. The movie "The Story of Two Hundred Five" depicts an upright and honest opera actor who loves to fight against injustice. His nickname is "Er Hundred Five". Since then, "Er Hundred Five" has become even more famous, spreading almost throughout the country.

In addition, according to the famous dramatist Weng Ouhong, in the early years of Kun Opera, "Butterfly Dream" performed the story of Zhuangzi's transformation. Bangzi changed its name to "The Big Split Coffin" and added two soul boy characters "Two Hundred and Five" and "Three Hundred and Three", which is quite a gimmick. , defeated Kun Opera. The Peking Opera "Butterfly Dream" is basically a remake of Bangzi, and the performance by Xiao Cuihua (Yu Lianquan) was not outstanding. Shanghai's famous ugly Liu Binkun recast the role of "Two Hundred and Five", creating original oilcloth gowns, waistcoats, and The little hat has a cool paper-like appearance, and its skills are very deep. After being carried out, he stood up on a chair, holding a tobacco bag in his right hand, and bent his chest with his left hand. It lasted for a moment, and his body moved constantly. The audience was surprised by the miraculous skill and called him a "paper man". ". There is a line in the Peking Opera "Butterfly Dream": A child pretending to be a child said: "Who is it? Ah, this man looks like the virgin I bought for two hundred and fifty grand. How is he still alive? It doesn't matter, just wait until I call him. Special, two hundred and five. The boy replied: "Why do you call me two hundred and five... What you bought is paper, and I am a human being. How can it be the same?" "

"Two hundred and five" means two hundred and fifty cents, which means "half-hearted". From the above analysis, it is speculated that the word "two hundred and five" probably originated in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. As for "half-hearted", Maybe even earlier.

Chu Opera is an ancient local vocal opera, formerly known as Ohhe Opera, Huangxiao Flower Drum Opera, and Xilu Flower Drum Opera. The popular Ohhe tune in the East was combined with the folk songs, Taoist sentiments, bamboo horses, stilts and folk raps in Huangpi and Xiaogan areas. In 1926, it was renamed Chu Opera. There is a traditional Chu Opera called "Selling Shoes Half-heartedly", which is a reenactment. The story of a shoemaker nicknamed "half-baked" sold shoes on the 30th of the twelfth lunar month to celebrate the New Year.