In life, sometimes when people are quarrelling, they often say that the other party is a "turtle bastard", and often say that everyone acquiesces that this is a scolding word, but have you ever thought about how this "tortoise" and "wang bastard" have become derogatory terms, used to scold people, there are many sayings about this matter.
In fact, the ancients have been using it for a long time"Wang VIII"It's time to curse. According to the "History of the New Five Dynasties" compiled by Ouyang in the Northern Song Dynasty, "Wang Jian was a scoundrel when he was young, and he was known as the eighth thief in the world." Legend has it that just started using it"Wang VIII"The scolding should be the former Shu Kingdom during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Legend has it that there was a man named Wang Jian in the former Shu Kingdom, who was a hooligan and scoundrel when he was young, and every day he did some stealing chickens and dogs to make a living, and the surrounding neighbors complained and suffered unspeakably. Because Wang Jian is the eighth oldest among his brothers and sisters in the family, the people around him call him behind his back"The Eight Thieves"Later, his reputation became bigger and bigger, and there were more people who called him, and "Wang Ba" gradually became a curse word.
However, there is another way of saying that the Confucian classics advocate the eight virtues of "filial piety, loyalty, loyalty, faithfulness, courtesy, righteousness, honesty, and shame"."Wang VIII"Finish. "Forgetting the Eight Virtues" and "Forgetting the Eight Ends" have gradually become "bastards".
Seeing this, you may have questions, having said so much, although "bastard" is indeed a scolding word, it is still not related to "turtle", "turtle" is really "pot from the sky", why is the turtle implicated?
This starts with why the turtle is called "Wang Ba", in the early days of writing or hieroglyphs, when people were painting turtles, because the texture of the turtle shell was still relatively complex, it was more troublesome to draw, so gradually, people were painting turtles by painting horizontal and vertical to represent, and then, these lines formed one"Wang"words, and presented when depicting the turtle's feet"Eight"The shape of the word, people take it"Wang VIII"As another name for a tortoise.
There is also a saying that in the traditional myths and legends of our country, the four spirits of "Green Dragon, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, and Xuanwu" guard the Quartet, and Xuanwu as the guardian spirit animal of the north, its image is a combination of a turtle and a giant snake intertwined, and the eggs laid by the turtle and the snake together are called"Bastard"。Later, people have extended this word, men and women become husband and wife, if the woman is pregnant with a child because of **, it is like a turtle does not have a baby with a turtle, but has an affair with a snake, therefore, the child born by the woman will be called"Little bastard", the man who was cuckolded was jokingly called by everyone"Wang VIII"。
Up to now, the "bastards" that people scold have gone through many years of evolution, and the meaning of the words has been very rich, and the people who are scolded as "bastards" are mostly some people who do not honor their parents, sell their friends to seek glory, cheat and deceive, bully women and children, old and young, treacherous, ungrateful, aiding and abetting, acting for tigers, indifferent bystanders, and even Internet violence and Internet hooligans.
It's a pity that none of these "turtles" have done any of these things, and when we call those things "turtle bastards" with righteous indignation, the turtles may also feel that it is really "a pot from heaven".
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