How did "Long live" and "Long live" come about?

We often see ministers shouting "Long live" when praising the emperor on TV. In fact, the word "Long live" is not reserved for the emperor. Long ago, "Long live" was just a cheer to express people's inner joy and celebration. After the Qin and Han Dynasties, courtiers often called "Long live" when they saw the king, but this word was still not the only exclusive title of the emperor, and the emperor didn't care if he called others "Long live". When he arrived at Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he wanted to keep "Long live" for himself, but people still shouted "Long live" every celebration. It was not until the Song Dynasty that the emperor was really forbidden to call others "Long live". As for the origin of "Long live", it comes from a story.

According to legend, after Wu Zetian proclaimed herself emperor, she especially liked others to flatter her in order to raise her status as "unreasonable", but she was outspoken. One day, she called the academician of the Hanlin Academy in the Golden Palace to answer the questions correctly. She blurted out the above question: "Jade girl, bang bang by the river! Bang bang! Bang bang! " The bachelor answered dozens of sentences with deep affection, but Wu Hou was not satisfied and was disappointed. At this time, a bachelor who is used to flattery saw her mind and quickly shouted: "Long live the Golden Palace, long live! Hooray! Long live! " Wuhou was in high spirits and made it a masterpiece. Since then, the word "Long live" has been circulated among the ruling and opposition parties.

Reporter: Why only spank in court, but not in other places?

Every time I see an official on TV, I yell, "Fight!" On duty, the stick always falls on the prisoner's ass. Why only spank in court and not anywhere else? It turns out that there was no clear place to punish prisoners in the past, so many prisoners were beaten to death. In the Tang Dynasty, when he arrived in Li Shimin, he once saw a picture of Acupuncture and Moxibustion in Tang Ming in the place where Doctor Tai saw a doctor. He learned that the acupoints of important organs of the human body are mostly in the chest and back, and these parts will be life-threatening. When he looked at the important acupoints on the buttocks in the picture, it was much less, which was very enlightening to him. Later, the punishment for beating was stipulated, and prisoners were not allowed to whip their chests and backs, and the buttocks were stipulated as the punishment part. Since then, spanking has been handed down in court.

Reporter: Whose nickname is "a swarm of bees"?

People often call many people talking or acting at the same time "swarming". "A swarm of bees" was originally a nickname for a person. A peasant uprising broke out during the Jian Yan period in the Southern Song Dynasty. The leader of an uprising team is Zhang Yu, nicknamed "Crowd". Lu You, a famous poet at the end of the Southern Dynasties, once wrote in "Into Shu": "During the Jian Yan period, Zhang Yu claimed to be' swarming with bees' and enlisted troops under the temple ..." This nickname is very imposing. In the Ming Dynasty, people used "a swarm of bees" as a metaphor for noisy scenes. Wu Cheng'en wrote in the twenty-eighth chapter of The Journey to the West: "Those little demons swarmed." In modern Chinese, "swarm of bees" belongs to a derogatory term group in emotional color, and from the perspective of rhetoric, "swarm of bees" is also a metaphor, which is often used to describe the situation that many people are in groups.

Learning: the origin of "drinking ink"

In the history of our country, the Northern Qi court once ordered that "people with poor grades" should be punished for drinking ink during exams. How much you drink depends on the degree of abuse. Liang Wudi stipulated that "people who make mistakes should be punished with a bucket of ink". "Sui Shu Li Yizhi" also stipulates that when a scholar takes an exam, if the book is shoddy, he will be fined one liter of ink; Even became a scholar, Lian Xiao, etc. During the exam, the invigilator found that there was "a wave of arts and sciences but poor writing" and asked him to sing ink in a special room. This absurd law was used by several dynasties, but although it was not implemented later, the amount of knowledge described by "drinking ink" remained in the vocabulary.

It has been nearly 65,438+00 years since the author wrote calligraphy in the Forestry Institute, but the words that can be written are still far from the copybook. Apart from "feeling ashamed of myself", I freed myself with a clumsy brush, which seems a bit like the old saying "I'm stupid, but I blame the blunt knife". Later, I bought deer and wolf hair, dipped it in ink, and learned to write directly on rice paper. I think the shape of the horizontal and vertical points looks better. In fact, it's just a psychological effect of self-comfort. After all, I still don't have my own skills. At this time, I can't help thinking about the reason for "drinking ink". In fact, I didn't drink enough ink at that time.

I remember when I was a child, I often heard villagers describe people who had never read books or lacked knowledge. They didn't have "ink" or "didn't drink much ink" in their bellies, and praised people with high academic qualifications and much knowledge with "how much ink they drank". Now let's take a look at Liang Wudi's regulations at that time: the scholar takes the exam, and the poor book is fined one liter of ink; Even when the scholar, Lian Xiao and others try again, the invigilator will let him drink a liter of ink in a special room when he finds that there is a "wave of arts and sciences, poor writing" ("wave of arts and sciences" means: broad but not essential, absurd and irrelevant. Roughness and omission. Reckless and presumptuous. Say one thing without thinking. Or meet someone who looks like your classmate but is not sure, you can go up and make a move, and the result is not your classmate ... these can be said to be "Meng Lang". Generally speaking, "Meng Lang" in the novel refers to taking the liberty. During the Northern Qi Dynasty (550-577), the court ordered that "those with poor grades" should be punished for drinking ink during the examination, and how much they drank should depend on the degree of "poor grades". Although these laws and regulations are absurd, they have good intentions. I think it will definitely play its due role. China used a writing brush in ancient times, and the ink used for writing was not as ready-made as it is now. It was probably ground in an inkstone, and a liter of ink was fined. How long has it been grinding? It is said that this absurd law can be followed by several dynasties, which shows its great influence. Although it did not prevail later, the phrase "drinking ink" has been used until today's era when science is extremely developed. It can be seen that the truth embodied in this sentence is still affirmed by society.

At present, there are probably very few people who write with a brush dipped in ink, except painters and painters or those who learn to practice calligraphy and Chinese painting. People of our age used to write large and small letters with a brush when they were young, which was a compulsory course, and the composition was also written with a brush. At that time, pens were rare and ordinary people could not afford them. With the development of society today, not only fewer people use brushes, but also fewer people use pens. Most of them use very convenient ballpoint pens or pencils. I once remembered a crosstalk show saying: One pen in the coat pocket is for primary school students, two pens for middle school students, three pens for college students and four pens for repairing pens, which sounds very funny. Although it is a joke, it can reflect an interesting history of China (now). At present, there are many kinds of ballpoint pens, including fine pens, special pens (marker pens, highlighter pens, whiteboard pens), gel pens, straight liquid pens, multifunctional pens, etc ... and new electric pens, which are varied and dizzying.

In fact, with the development of science today, it is no longer possible to express its knowledge with any pen or number of pens. Look at government agencies, enterprises, banks, hospitals, airports, stations, docks ... places that used to be inseparable from pens have all changed to computers, realizing the so-called paperless office. Even an old man like me would have given up using all kinds of pens and written directly on the computer if he hadn't learned Chinese calligraphy. Therefore, it is out of date to measure the level of learning by the amount of "drinking ink".

However, after all, computers can't replace "drinking ink", so people still use the expression of "drinking ink" by their ancestors to evaluate a person's academic accomplishment. Perhaps this is China people's inheritance of China culture!

Please remember three very useful pieces of advice.

I read a story on the Internet: It is about a man who has been working outside for 20 years and finally wants to go home. The boss asked him: Do you want 20 years' salary? Or three words of advice? The man said, shall I give you an answer on the road tomorrow? The boss agreed. That man didn't sleep that night ... when he got up in the morning, he said to his boss, I want three pieces of advice.

The boss then gave him three sentences: the first sentence is: Don't try to find impossible shortcuts, there is no cheap thing in the world, only down-to-earth is the best way-no matter what you do; The second sentence is: don't be too curious about what you know is not a good thing, you may die because of it; The third sentence is: don't make any decision on impulse, otherwise this decision may become a regret for your life. Then the boss gave the man some money and three loaves of bread, and told him: You can't eat the biggest bread until you go home.

That man is on his way. He walked for a few days and ate half of the first bread. Before long, he met a crossroads. He asked which way was the shortest. Passerby A: The path is short. Passerby B: It's safe to take the main road. He couldn't wait to see his wife, so he took the path. Not long after walking, he heard a passerby say that there was a mountain thief nearby, so he remembered the boss's first advice: don't try to find a shortcut. So he went back that way.

After walking for a few days, the second bread was finished, and he found a very cheap inn to stay. He couldn't sleep when he heard a woman crying in the middle of the night. So I decided to go out and have a look. Then he thought of the second piece of advice: don't be too curious about what you know is not a good thing. So he fell asleep again. When we set out the next day, the shopkeeper exclaimed, are you still alive? ! He was puzzled and asked why. The shopkeeper said that he had a crazy daughter who cried when she got sick and then killed her. You were the only one who stayed last night.

The man marveled ... after walking for a few days, the second bread was not far from home when it was finished, and he was even more excited. It was dark soon, and he went to his village on foot. When he got home, he was about to knock at the door when he heard a man's voice in the room. He was so angry that he picked up a wood cutter and prepared to rush into the house and kill the man. But then he thought of a third suggestion: don't make any decision on impulse, maybe this decision will make you regret it for the rest of your life. So he calmed down and sat outside all night.

The next morning, he knocked at the door early, and his wife was very happy to see him back. But he asked coldly, who is that man? His wife smiled and said, that is our son! Shortly after you left, I just ... at this moment, he found that this young man looks like himself. When father and son met for the first time, they hugged each other and cried. After a moment of concern, the man took out the third bread and shared it with his wife and son. After the incision, he found that his salary for 20 years was in it.

It's really wise to think about the boss's three pieces of advice. This story tells us: you must think clearly before you do anything, otherwise you will only regret it in the end!