What proverb was born when Zhu Yuanzhang's queen traveled in Beijing?

China's language and culture are profound, and some folk sayings may have been circulated for hundreds of years. The evolution of folk sayings sometimes seems so inexplicable, including? Show the cloven foot This proverb. I don't know if you have any questions in your heart. Why can this proverb tell the truth? Maybe? On the way? Do you have any skeletons in your closet? Today, we will give a popular science lecture on the origin of this word.

During the Hongwu period of Ming Dynasty, Ma Huanghou, once a middle peasant family, was very close to the people. He often goes for an outing in the capital. Once she was sitting in an open-air sedan chair, and a gust of wind blew up her lower skirt, revealing those? Bigfoot movie? . At that time, foot binding had become a custom among wealthy families in Jianghuai area. This custom, which has been handed down since the Song Dynasty (or the late Tang Dynasty of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms), has won the favor of many southerners and become an aesthetic preference.

It is worth noting that foot binding was not common in the early Ming Dynasty, which only represented an aesthetic orientation, which is equivalent to that people now regard high nose and big eyes as beauty, but it did not force people to have high nose and big eyes. But the queen is different. The queen must be a role model for women all over the world. If there are some shortcomings, it will be infinitely magnified.

That's why Ma Huanghou. Bigfoot movie? It became a joke, because the surname Ma gradually evolved into a folk saying? Show the cloven foot . Zhu Yuanzhang, who is good at killing people, was angry when he heard that his wife was ugly. This leads to another folklore.

According to legend, Zhu Yuanzhang was in rags, traveling incognito, and taking part in the Lantern Festival riddles in solve riddles on the lanterns. At that time, there was a riddle at the lantern riddle meeting, which was a woman with big feet holding a watermelon in her hand. What is the title? Answer: the wife of today's celebrities? At that time, a scholar answered the answer, saying that holding watermelon means Huaixi, and Bigfoot is today's wife Ma Huanghou. There are still people at the scene who agree that this big foot is ugly.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very angry. When he returned to the palace, he wanted to gather people to kill all these nonsense people, but Ma Huanghou tried his best to dissuade him. She said? When you were seriously injured in the defeat, I carried you out with this big foot and fled to the mountains. At that time, the army called me Ms. bigfoot. We were proud of it then, but how can you fly into a rage today? ?

To say either good or bad, Zhu Yuanzhang gave up the idea of killing these people and demanded that they be exiled. Since then, the royal family of the Ming Dynasty used Tianzunv, probably because of the influence of Ma Huanghou.

In addition, this story is a folk legend. Some historians believe that it was revealed as early as the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and it is still difficult to determine whether this story is true or not. But I think how can people compare the truth of proverbs? There was only one thing, just for fun, and then it spread.

References:

Queen Bigfoot and China unofficial history Volume 9