Seeking popular science, how did the word green hat come from? Is there any allusion?

According to Yuan Dian Zhang, parents and relatives of prostitutes wear blue headscarves. Thus, the "green headscarf" is associated with the male relatives of prostitutes. People are used to saying "green headscarf" because green and green are close and belong to cheap colors. Because green is related to prostitutes, later, the "green headscarf" was specially used to refer to men whose wives were unfaithful, and it evolved into a "green hat".

The implication of a green hat is that one partner has an affair with another person, and the other partner is said to be cuckolded. Being cuckolded is a very disgraceful, shameful and humiliating thing. The "cuckold husband" has been passed down from generation to generation for a long time. Although there are different opinions, the general meaning is the same. Later, everyone called this kind of thing "cuckold husband".

Extended information:

Green headscarf, green hat and green hat have all been used to refer to the cheating husband of that wife since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This kind of address is not only scattered in novels, but also one of the common people's terms. In addition, there are quite a few jokes about "cuckolding".

Contemporary scholars Chris Powell and Steve Linstead pointed out in the collection of Humor in Society-Resistance and Control that the true meaning of many jokes lies in reflecting fear, so as to strengthen and reshape the moral boundary and achieve the purpose of social control.

According to their theory, maybe we can think that there are many jokes about "cuckolding" in China society, which reflects the phobia of having an affair with his wife. Therefore, such jokes have the function of social vigilance and social control.

Therefore, the name of the green headscarf should have originated in the Ming Dynasty. Musicians in the Ming Dynasty were a lowly profession, and it was stipulated that they could only wear green headscarfs, so the green headscarf became a lowly whore-like symbol. Wife raising Han, of course, is equivalent to this kind of industry wearing a green headscarf.