When did the word [wife] appear?

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.

■ 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.