Why is everyone bragging instead of bragging about pigskin?

Bragging: from the butcher. In the past (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 pigs and sheep were swollen. This will be very convenient when peeling, and the skin will crack by itself with a slight pull with a knife. It's called blowing pigs or blowing sheep. It's bragging that you deal with cattle like this.

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

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

When people "brag", they often look aggressive. On this basis, people describe prosperous people and things as "real cows" (greatness). The "bull" in the stock market "bull market" and "bear market" does not come from this. When the stock market rises, the trend curve will rise upwards, shaped like the outline of a bull with its head held high; When falling, the curve bends downward, similar to the drooping back of a bear's bow.

The origin of the word "brag":

Mongolians are nomadic people, and the symbol of wealth is cattle, so officials like to show off how many cows they once owned on the grassland. Even in front of servants, I often boast, "sir, I think that year." There are many cows on the grassland. "

When the master is bragging about his flock of cattle and sheep, if a junior official visits, the servant will tell him, "Please wait a moment, adults are bragging."

The original meaning of "bragging" is "boasting" and "showing off". Sichuan still calls sentence-by-sentence chatting "bragging" and people telling stories with plots "posing as a dragon gate array".

When the Han people kill pigs, in order to shave the pig hair conveniently, they should insert a tube from the pig's leg and blow into it, and the pig skin should be blown up all the time. This action is called "blowing pigs".

When "bragging" spread from Mongols to Han Chinese, it was misunderstood as using pigs to build cows, so it was derived from "bragging" and "bragging legs" and later developed into "bragging X".

What we now call "bragging" has become the meaning of "exaggerating the facts" or even "making something out of nothing". The sentence "Don't brag if you have an image" shows that bragging is exaggeration. In those days, bragging didn't mean exaggeration.