Do you know the origin of "I'm sorry"?

Let me tell you a joke first;

After the great thief Yuan Shikai died in 1916, people across the country rushed to tell each other, rejoiced and danced. There was a scholar in Sichuan who promised to go to Beijing to send an elegiac couplet to Yuan Shikai. After hearing this, the villagers were shocked and puzzled. They opened the couplet he had written and read: Yuan Shikai is eternal and long live the Chinese people.

After reading this, people couldn't help laughing. The literati deliberately asked: "What are you laughing at?" A young man who was outspoken said: "How can the three words 'Yuan Shikai' in the first couplet match the four words 'Chinese people' in the second couplet?" After hearing this, the literati said, "Chi!" " laughed and said: "By the way, Yuan Shikai just can't stand the Chinese people!"

Two ways of saying it:

1. Same as the first floor

The ancients liked to use couplets to show their knowledge. Often those who were stumped would say: I'm sorry in order to show that they are not as good as others. Later, it gradually spread that if you offended others, no matter whether you were knowledgeable or uneducated, you would humbly say something in order to show that you were knowledgeable and sensible. This is the origin of sorry!

2.

When we apologize to others, we always say "ごめんなさい". Where does this word come from?

In the Edo period of Japan, the Tokugawa shogunate led by Tokugawa Ieyasu, in order to control farmers, workers and businessmen who accounted for 80% of the country's total population, in addition to levying heavy taxes on these people every year In addition to their wealth, [they cannot starve to death, but they cannot live well either. ), and also promulgated the status system of "scholars, farmers, industry and commerce". [At that time, people who were worse than businessmen were called "inhumans"! 〕

In the society at that time, the status of "shi" (warrior) was the highest. Samurai could learn martial arts and knowledge, and could wear two samurai swords around their waists when going out. If farmers, workers, and businessmen were disrespectful to the samurai, the samurai was even allowed to kill the person who was rude to the samurai on the spot! This kind of behavior of killing people in the street without being punished is called "kirisute-gomenn" (kirisute-gomenn). "Gomen" originally meant "exemption from punishment orders" (similar to an imperial edict). But killing is a bad thing after all, and the samurai who killed people must have felt guilty in their hearts! As a result, "gomen" originally only meant "exemption from punishment orders" and spread. Later it changed to mean "I'm sorry". And " Royal exemption + 下さい" → ごめんください〔Please give me Royal exemption) became the honorific of "I'm sorry", and was later omitted to "ごめんなさい"; that is, the commonly used spoken language today is "I'm sorry