Why did the ancients sell iron in pots instead of selling pots directly?

It must be a young man who is asking questions. He has probably never seen the ancient people's pots. Let's start with the last picture:

Do you understand?

In ancient times, resources were scarce and fuel was scarce. All cookers had to be built like this to use up all the heat energy.

the iron pot is also very big, and it needs to be fitted together with the brick stove, so as not to waste heat energy.

that big iron pot will never be picked up, and it is not easy to pick it up.

if you really want to sell the pot, you have to chop the stove first.

So when we say "selling iron by smashing pots", it's not an iron pot that is smashed, but a brick stove that is worthless.

after all, a stove is a pot!

After all, ancient bricks are also valuable.

eating is the biggest thing. No one will sell iron unless absolutely necessary.

In the past, in the countryside, when two families who hated each other so much, they rushed into the kitchen of their enemy and smashed a hole in the iron pot of their enemy, which was also a solution.

This method of revenge and relieving anger has a proper name, which is called "Zhenren's pot".

It is second only to digging people's ancestral graves.

However, from then on, the two families have become sworn enemies, and the grievances have been repaid from generation to generation.

so, people who are not ordinary and fierce will not do such a thing.

smash your own stove and make sure your own pot. No one will do that.

The so-called "selling iron in a saucepan" is just an adjective. What the speaker wants to express is that he is ready to do something with all his strength.

Iron in ancient times was relatively expensive, so when selling pots, it could not be sold at once, and few people could afford it. They were all smashed from the edge of the pot. When one catty of iron was smashed, one catty of iron was sold, and one or two irons were sold. The rest of the middle pot can be used for cooking and can be sold many times to supplement the family, just as it is the same reason that 1 yuan is converted into small denomination bills. A typical example is Water Margin. In Water Margin, when Lu Zhishen was building his own mord at the foot of Wutai Mountain, the blacksmith said to him, I'll give you another 2 Jin of iron. In The Legend of the Condor Heroes, Yang Tiexin's hoe was broken, and he himself said, I will add two irons another day to make a new hoe. It can be seen that the iron price at that time was relatively high, and they were all sold by two or one catty.

This is actually an idiom to express honesty and determination. It means to achieve your goal even if you lose everything.

the pot has been smashed with several pieces of iron, and its volume has been much smaller.

it's convenient to sell iron, but the whole pot is not easy to take.

shh! The master sued me. Oh.

selling iron in a saucepan is actually an exaggeration of language; If it really comes to that, I'm afraid I can't make ends meet. Therefore, this popular folk saying is just a determination to express poverty and boredom, and it is also a kind of helplessness.

if you sell the pot directly, the waste collector may refuse to accept it because your pot comes from an unknown source; Therefore, it can only be proved that it is indeed a waste product if it is smashed. How much can I exchange some money for comfort-who has nothing to sell pots? Only those who "shake the pot".

of course, this is a joke.

The language of ordinary people is very vivid; If it is more elegant, it means "cross the rubicon", "last stand", and even "put all your eggs in one basket" with a slightly derogatory meaning. These are actually similar to "selling iron in a pot", and they all mean "make up your mind" and "whatever it takes"-to die and be born later.

how much sorrow is revealed by selling iron in a pot-only when there is no way out can this be done; However, there is a philosophy of life in selling iron, and adversity is not irreversible.

selling iron in a saucepan is actually an effort, a positive struggle-change and unchanging, which exists in selling iron in a saucepan; If you wait passively and give up all your efforts, it is tantamount to digging your own grave.

China's Book of Changes and Tao Te Ching all explain the same truth-things often develop in the opposite direction; Promoting mutual transformation is the mutual concept of Chinese culture.

selling iron in a saucepan may be a fulcrum, and you can turn over the salted fish if you seize the opportunity-you can't surrender voluntarily at any time; There is still a last glimmer of hope. Don't lightly say "resigned".

Everyone has started all over again, and the power of publicity is competing.

Personally, in ancient times, the wok was not what it is now, and it was readily available. It's all cauldrons. Set the cauldron on the countertop and fix it. Selling iron by smashing pots means smashing pots and selling pots.

The pot is too expensive for everyone to buy. Only the smashed selling iron

There is no way out, so we can only sell it, and we can regret it when we sell it!

an adjective that describes that you have given up everything. It's not really breaking the pot and buying it.