What does gossip mean?

Bagua: A set of symbols in ancient China. With "one" for Yang and "-"for Yin, three such symbols form eight forms, which are called Eight Diagrams. Each six-pointed star represents something. Dry represents heaven, Kun represents earth, ridge represents water, far represents fire, earthquake represents thunder, Gen (gèn) represents mountains, Xun (xê n) represents wind, and right represents swamp. Eight diagrams are matched with each other to get sixty-four hexagrams, which are used to symbolize various natural phenomena and personnel phenomena. It is discussed in detail in the Book of Changes. Gossip is said to have been created by Fuxi and later used for divination.

The extended meaning of gossip (entertainment meaning)

In the entertainment circle, gossip refers to informal, gossip or news, usually the privacy of a star. Gossip extension).

Say: The original meaning of "gossip" in Cantonese is to gossip everywhere. In order to attract readers, entertainment news and paparazzi dig up the privacy of stars everywhere, so the news dug up in this way is called "gossip news"

On the other hand, it seems that it can be traced back further and can better reflect the spirit of gossip: the origin of the name "gossip magazine" is that when pornographic books and periodicals were published in Hong Kong in the early years, the extremely cool and eye-catching photos on the cover would be affixed with gossip pictures in key parts, which is similar to the mosaic effect, and this kind of magazine reporting the private lives of stars was named, and the word "gossip" even derived adjectives and verbs from nouns.

There is also a saying that in order to increase business, some teahouses in the Republic of China posted all kinds of gossip on the outer walls of museums according to the shape of gossip, hence the name of gossip.

Why gossip?

1, Yijing has a saying: "Yin and Yang give birth to Tai Chi, Tai Chi gives birth to two instruments and two instruments give birth to four images, and four images give birth to eight diagrams". The founder of Hong Kong gossip magazine thinks that most of the gossip disturbed in the world comes from the enmity between men and women (Yang), just like the gossip originated from Yin and Yang, so it is named gossip magazine.

2. Taiwan Province entertainment circle uses "gossip" to express the word of foreign gossip, which should be initiated by Taiwan Province artist Cao Qitai. The word he used at that time should be the evolution of the word "bitch"

The origin of the word gossip is also interesting. It is said that Hong Kong gossip magazine took a small gossip pattern on the "spot" when there was a dew point photo (Taiwan Province Province seems to have used stars or love). Over time, gossip has become synonymous with gossip.