An old taboo joke

The ancients said "taboo", that is, children avoid the name of grandfather and subjects avoid the name of king. Generally speaking, when writing articles and speaking, you should avoid the words you want to avoid and generally replace them with other words. The taboos of ordinary people are easy to handle, but the taboos of the emperor are not negotiable. It has the characteristics of coercion, and if it is broken, it will be beheaded.

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Because the emperor's taboos are so sacred and inviolable, as a result, one after another makes people laugh. 4zMShanliangtong.com

Wendi's name is "Zhao", so others are not allowed to use the word "Zhao", so even the ancient Wang Zhaojun had to change his surname to "". 4zMShanliangtong.com

The emperor of Jin Dynasty was called Sima Ye, so the word "Ye" was monopolized by the emperor, and even the place name "Jianye" was renamed "Jiankang". 4zMShanliangtong.com

Tang Gaozong's name is Li Zhi, and the word "rule" has become a unique word of the emperor, and the words with the same sound as "rule" should also be changed. In writing, all the words that encounter "governance" are rewritten into synonyms, such as "persistence" and "reason". But the word "juvenile" is homophonic with "rule", so wherever "juvenile" is used, it must be replaced by "juvenile". Fortunately, there are many synonyms in Chinese, otherwise I really don't know what to do. 4zMShanliangtong.com

Prince Tang Gaozong is called Jong Li, so the word "loyalty" is taboo. Many years later, the official title of "corps commander" was changed to "brigade commander". 4zMShanliangtong.com

The above taboos are the names of emperors or princes. Very easy to understand. Later, even the surname of the emperor and the zodiac were taboo. Suddenly, many interesting things happened. 4zMShanliangtong.com

Because Song Huizong belongs to dogs, all dogs in the world have lost their luck. There are laws in the world that prohibit killing dogs. 4zMShanliangtong.com

Because Yuan Renzong is a chicken, it is forbidden to mention chicken in metropolis. From then on, when buying and selling chickens, everyone should hold them to show respect for the word "chicken". 4zMShanliangtong.com

Ironically, Ming Wuzong, surnamed Zhu, was a pig, so in fourteen years, he issued an imperial edict prohibiting people from raising pigs. He thinks that raising pigs and killing pigs is to point the finger at the emperor. I don't want to order this dish. A few years later, almost all the pigs in the country were extinct, so that the pigs used to worship the Temple of Heaven in festivals could not be found. Later, due to the advice of ministers, he had to cancel this absurd ban. 4zMShanliangtong.com

Empress Dowager Cixi was a sheep in the Qing Dynasty, and the court ordered that no one should say anything like "raising sheep, killing sheep and eating mutton". But Empress Dowager Cixi was greedy and insisted on mutton. Therefore, the court ordered that people were not allowed to say things like "raising sheep, killing sheep and eating mutton". But Empress Dowager Cixi was greedy and insisted on mutton. Then he ordered that "mutton" be called "good meat" and "long-lived meat", which was really ridiculous.