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A story about the origin of the word "brag"

There are three altogether.

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.

However, although the origin of "cow" and "real cow" in "bull market" is different, they are the same in terms of "prosperous wealth".

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Respondent: Eric Huang Level 5 2-5 13:06.

The origin of bragging

People call it bragging. The boast comes from Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia and Inner Mongolia. In the past, people in these places crossed the river by raft, which was made of sheepskin and cowhide. When in use, blow air into it, bind your mouth, and use it as a tool to cross the river. When connecting small rafts together, you can turn them into big rafts and big rafts together, and you can carry thousands of kilograms of heavy objects across the river.

Bragging is blowing into the raft. It seems simple, but in fact it needs skill.

In the Song Dynasty, there was a man named Yang Pu who loved to brag and claimed to be a adherent of Dongye. Song Zhenzong asked for help, so people recommended him. There is nothing he can do. He choked in front of the emperor and didn't write a poem. Song Zhenzong was embarrassed to see him. He felt sorry for his old age and asked him to hand in a poem the next day.

Yang Pu stayed up all night, tossing and turning, starving many fleas. At dawn, he remembered the farewell message when the old woman came out of the house. The next day, he gave the old woman's farewell speech: don't be down and out, don't drink too much, don't recite poems wildly. I'm going to the palace today, and this time I'm going to ruin my old scalp.

After reading his poem, Song Zhenzong found it interesting and asked him who wrote it. He confessed that it was what the old woman said when she went out. Song Zhenzong said, "For your wife's sake, I'll let you brag this time, or I'll really need your scalp." .

Interviewee: Komatsu blog -CEO level141-615: 48.

Mongolia entered the Central Plains, established the Yuan Empire, and established Dadoucheng at the foot of Yanshan Mountain, later called "Yuandadu".

In the Yuan Dynasty, most people lived in Beijing, Mongolia and Semu. Therefore, their culture gradually penetrated into Beijing culture. For example, Beijing dialect calls streets and lanes "hutongs", which is influenced by Mongolian. Hutong means "well" and "path between tents" in Mongolian. Isn't the "path between tents" on the grassland a "street" when it reaches the city?

In addition, we often talk about bragging and flattery, which is also the cultural heritage of the Yuan Dynasty, but it changed its original intention in circulation.

(1) brag

People always want to have noble blood, rich family and brilliant family background, especially in officialdom. Although "bitter origin" can explain their struggle and struggle, it also shows their "shallow foundation" and "weak relationship" Therefore, in the officialdom, you must climb the dragon and attach the phoenix, and you must boast your former wealth and present wealth.

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 derived "bragging" and "bragging legs" and later developed into "bragging till the end".

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. And the bragging in those days didn't mean grandiose!

(2) Flattery

Mongolia is a nation that won the world at once, so most of the officials in the Yuan Dynasty were military commanders. A subordinate's best compliment to his superior is to praise his horse. On the one hand, Mongolians love horses, on the other hand, horses are also symbols of his power, status and position, so praising his horses is tantamount to praising him.

When a subordinate meets his boss, he often praises his horse and pats it on the back, praising it with the most beautiful words in the world, such as "fat", "long hair and bright mane", "chasing the wind and the moon" and "walking through the snow without trace" ... In short, he wants to boast his horse as a BMW foal. Later, people called flattery to superiors "flattery". This is because compliments are different, but flattery is the same.

Han people who seldom ride horses, with their free imagination, gradually turned "flattery" into "flattery", which shows that they are amateurs, which is neither logical nor realistic.

Flatter, can only kiss the horse's waist, or stomach, or back. If you pat the horse's ass, it will give the horse a signal to "clear the way" and the horse will move forward. Without the horse, the owner of the horse will of course leave, so "flattery" is equivalent to driving the boss away. You say, which subordinate dares to pat Sima's ass?

Up to now, flattery is all about "taking a car." Flatter your boss by patting his car when he gets off or gets on the bus and saying, "The boss's car is great, streamlined ivory, fashionable and fashionable!" " "He is very happy to hear that, so maybe he will give you one and a half grades.

(3) "Liu Xu"

In Mongolian dance and Xinjiang dance, actors always wipe their beards from nose to left and right with their thumbs when they are in high spirits. In movies and TV series, we often see such scenes. After drinking wine or milk tea, men in Xinjiang and Mongolia should also wipe their beards twice and then laugh. Thus, it is a traditional habit of Mongolian and Xinjiang people (Semu people) to wipe their beards when they are happy. This action of "wiping beard" is "smoothing beard" in Chinese.

Slaves always don't want their masters to be bored and anxious, and their bosses to be angry, because they often take it out on their subordinates and slaves. Therefore, for subordinates and slaves, the best way is to do everything possible to make the boss and master happy. The boss and the master were calm and began to stroke their beards. Everyone's hanging hearts fell to the ground like stones. Later, it was simply called "smoothing your beard" to make people happy.

This abbreviation, which originated from officialdom and zhaimen, has undergone two changes since it was introduced to the people by word of mouth. One is to change "stroking beard" into "sliding beard", and the other is to change the person stroking beard from boss and master into subordinate and slave. For example, we often say now, "XX went to the leader again?" Or "Did you slip away from the leader again?" .

You know, it is impossible for the boss and the master to let others stroke their beards, and others dare not. As the saying goes, "Who dares to stroke the tiger's beard!"

Later, it was even more unreasonable to "beard" and had to give in to the established custom.

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