The origin of husband and wife's names?

According to legend, there was a scholar named Mai in the Tang Dynasty. After winning fame in the exam, he felt that his wife was old and faded, so he liked the new and hated the old, and he had the idea of accepting new love. So, I wrote a pair of couplets and put them on my desk: "When the lotus declines, the fallen leaves belong to the old lotus root." (Lotus leaves rot, lotus leaves wither, flowers wither, and leaves become an old lotus root. )

It happened that the couplet was seen by his wife. The wife noticed from the couplets that her husband had the idea of abandoning the old and welcoming the new, so she began to write a couplet: "The ecliptic is ripe, and the rice is now new." The wheat turns yellow and the rice is ripe. When the rice bran is blown away, new grains of rice can be seen. )

Replacing lotus with rice and old lotus with new grain are not only neat and appropriate, but also novel and popular, and the homonym of new grain and bride is interesting.

When the second couplet came out, Mai Xiucai was shocked. On second thought, too. My wife has been busy these years, and I have moved my mind. Is it still a man?

So he confessed his mistake to his wife, which showed that the scholar paid attention to propriety, righteousness and honesty, immediately cut off his previous unjust thoughts and stayed with his wife at ease.

Mrs. mak is also a person who knows the limits: you are fair to me by saying so. I haven't waited on you and the children for nothing all these years. Then he picked up a pen and wrote a couplet: "My husband is very fair." Meidor made a couplet at that time: "My wife is a woman."

This incident was later passed down as a much-told story among their relatives and friends, and a quick-thinking couple easily resolved a marriage crisis with their knowledge. Then the name "husband's wife" gradually spread.

Extended data:

The ancient husband:

1, lover

In ancient times, the husband was called "lover", and the word "lover" did not show gender, while the wife called her husband "lover"; The husband calls his wife a "lover"; It can be seen from here that the status of men and women was generally equal at that time, but this indiscriminate title also brought a lot of inconvenience to the couple.

2. Langer

So later, according to Shuo Wen Jie Zi, the pronunciation and meaning of the word "two" were distinguished; Add "Lu" to the right of "Liang" to become "Lang"; Add "female" to the left of "good" to form "mother".

3. Lang Jun

Add a disyllabic word before or after "Lang" and "Niang", that is, add a word "Jun" after "Lang"; Add a word "Zi" after the word "Niang" and it becomes "husband" and "wife" to show intimacy. The wife calls her husband "Mr. Lang", which is an elegant address for her husband.

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