Are you right?

The old people often say "the bull's head is not right, the horse's mouth is wrong", which is also a kind of conversation technique

The bull's head is not right, the horse's mouth is wrong. The meaning of the horse's mouth, the questioner's answer, the article's wrong answer, etc. are basically the same as the bull's head but the horse's mouth.

It means that the bull's head is wrong and the horse's mouth is wrong.

A cow’s head has a horse’s mouth. The two together are meant to make a fool of themselves, so they have a derogatory and ironic flavor. For example, there is a joke circulating on the Internet, where the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl originally fell in love, but the Cowherd took a mistress, so the Weaver Girl found Bao Zheng and knelt down to cry out for injustice. Bao Zheng also sighed with regret, and now I have also been dismissed from office.

It turns out that it was the Cowherd who gave Bao Zheng his official position. Originally a legendary figure, a historical figure, unrelated to the horse and the cow, the horse's mouth was just placed on the cow's head, becoming "two dissimilarities". "There are countless jokes like this. In fact, this is also a kind of black humor, a technique used when speaking and telling jokes, which has a tearful and ironic meaning.

Being wrong is also a "skill" in speech. For example, the host asked Li Jian: Why did you leave the Shuimunianhua group? Li Jian replied: Faye Wong still sounds good singing the legend I wrote. Of course, this is just a metaphor and has not actually happened, but we can see three points from the answers: First, it is normal to leave Shuimunianhua. Everyone regards this as normal for a person to leave the group and pursue a solo career. Just look at things as they are; secondly, after leaving Shuimunianhua, he is still writing songs and providing music services to the fans; thirdly, after leaving Shuimunianhua, Li Jian is still able to write well-known songs.

Of course, there are still many such flattering answers in real life. Most of them are answered in a nonsensical way when they encounter questions that they don’t want to mention. In real life, we still need to pay attention to treating people sincerely and seriously. After all, being clever and hypocritical is not as good as being sincere.

An allusion to a bull’s head and a horse’s mouth.

Source: Volume 11 of "Warning Words" by Feng Menglong of the Ming Dynasty: "Zao Li slapped his face and spat, saying: 'Damn it, my uncle's surname is Gao and he is from Jiangxi. He is wrong. !'" In the era without machines, the working tools that our country's working people came into contact with the most were cows, horses, donkeys and mules, so they vividly connected familiar things such as cow heads and horse mouths, and vividly expressed It means that the bull's head is wrong and the horse's mouth is wrong.

In the Song Dynasty's "The Legend of Jingde Deng Lu. Zen Master Wen Yan" there is also a related statement: If you generally prey on weak Han people and cannibalize people's saliva, remember that there are piles of bones and piles of bones, and they pour out the lips of donkeys and horses. "The Scholars" of the Qing Dynasty also related it: After hearing these words, Chen Zhenggong was so worried that he broke out in a stinky sweat. These statements are consistent with the usage of bull's head and horse's mouth.