Why do you describe people as "bragging" when they talk big?

To be precise, it's called bragging. It is said that in the former Shaanxi area, when people crossed the Yellow River, they did not take a boat, but lay on the upper reaches of the inflated skins of cattle and sheep. Sheepskin is easy to blow, but cowhide is difficult. Later, when someone tells a lie, they sarcastically said: Go to the Yellow River to brag if you have that ability. Over time, bragging is a pronoun of lying, and similarly, there are cars and cannons in Chaoshan. Bragging: It comes from butchers. Once upon a time (and now), after killing pigs and sheep, the butcher would cut a small mouth on the leg of pigs and sheep near the hoof, put an iron bar in it and poke it, then put his mouth together and blow hard into it until the whole body of pigs and sheep swelled. In this way, it will be very convenient when peeling, and the skin will crack by itself with a gentle pull with a knife. This is called blowing pigs or blowing sheep. If you deal with cattle in this way, it's called bragging.

However, butchers rarely use this method when slaughtering cattle, because the cattle are huge, with tough skin and little subcutaneous fat. To inflate the whole cow, it is necessary to have extremely strong diaphragm and huge lung capacity, which is very human. Anyone who says he can brag is 99.9999 percent "bragging"!

"bragging" is also called "bragging", but people who don't know its origin, in order to further strengthen its derogatory meaning, call it "bragging B" or "cow B" slightly; Because this last word is often replaced by "x" in writing, now some people call "bragging" "awesome".

-----------. On this basis, people describe people and things that are prosperous as "real cows" (great). The "bull" in the "bull market" and "bear market" of the stock market does not come from this. When the stock market rises, the trend curve will rise upward, shaped like the outline of a bull with its head held high; When it falls, the curve is curved downward, similar to a bear with its bow back hanging down.