What is the meaning of a husband?

"Husband" refers to husband, eunuch and old man. In modern semantics, "husband" generally refers to the common name of husband, and also refers to the man who grows old with his wife.

In ancient times, husbands were called "lovers", from which we can easily see the glorious and tall image of ancient husbands. It is estimated that men at that time were talking about corruption and engaging in small honey. In the ancient poem, there is a saying, "My concubine rises from a high building, and my lover holds a halberd."

The word "lover" has no gender, and the wife calls her husband "lover"; The husband calls his wife a "lover"; It can be seen from here that the status of men and women was generally equal at that time, but this indiscriminate title also brought a lot of inconvenience to the couple.

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In the Tang Dynasty, there was a scholar named Mai. After he obtained fame and fortune, he felt that his wife was old and faded, and he had the idea of abandoning her and finding another lover. So, I wrote a pair of couplets and put them on my desk: "When the lotus declines, the fallen leaves belong to the old lotus root." It happened that the couplet was seen by his wife.

The wife noticed from the couplets that her husband had the idea of abandoning the old and welcoming the new, so she began to write a couplet: "The ecliptic is ripe, and the rice is now new." Substituting rice for lotus and new grain for old lotus root is not only neat and appropriate, but also novel and popular, and the homonym of new grain and bride is interesting.

Mai Aixin read his wife's second couplet and was moved by her agile thinking and love, so she gave up the idea of abandoning the old and welcoming the new. When the wife saw her husband change his mind, she did not forget the old feelings, but wrote, "My husband is very fair." Mai Aixin continued to write a couplet: "My wife is a woman."