Why is going to the toilet called' relieving oneself'?

Many people know that "relieving oneself" means going to the toilet, but many people know little about the origin of the word "relieving oneself".

Go to the bathroom and go to the bathroom. Why is it called "free yourself"? This is expected to be ahead of 600 years ago. Six hundred years ago, at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, there were four wars without interruption. Zhu Yuanzhang fought the Yuan Dynasty, and then Chen Youliang. The people who fought in the war were miserable, and many people were killed. Finally, Daming Mountain gained a firm foothold. As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang's successor was his grandson Zhu Yunwen, which annoyed one of Zhu Yuanzhang's sons, Prince Judy. Judy didn't do it, so Judy and Zhu Yunwen fought again. They fought for the world. As a result, they played for more than ten years. As a result, many people died in Anhui, Henan, Hebei and Shandong, making these provinces sparsely populated and barren.

After Judy became an emperor of Ming Dynasty, she felt that this would not work and would affect Daming's national strength too much, so she tried to increase the population of these places, but it was too slow to increase the population by giving birth. Therefore, Judy listened to the advice of ministers and moved some people from nearby populous provinces. At that time, Shanxi was the most populous province in the north, because Shanxi was relatively closed, and the war had little impact on it. Starting from Hongdong County, Shanxi Province, the most famous is a temple in Hongdong County, Shanxi Province. There is a big pagoda tree at the entrance of the temple. It is said that under this tree is the immigration headquarters. At first, immigrants will get rich rewards, such as a few acres of fertile land and a cow, but later they become forced immigrants. China people don't want to leave their hometown because of their strong local concept, so many people don't want to go, resist, and some will sneak off on the road.

So later, compulsory measures were taken to escort these people by officers and men. In order to prevent these people from escaping, they were tied behind their backs and tied into a string to facilitate escort. But there are also problems, because people who travel long distances can't walk so fast. People have three emergencies, so you can't help letting people go to the toilet. Therefore, once you go to the toilet, you have to apply for it yourself. Therefore, if the tied person wants to go to the toilet, he can only report to the officers and men, for example,' Report to the chief, untie my hand, I want to go to the toilet'. Later, because of the long journey and many people, for convenience, many people immediately shouted "Sir, I want to relieve myself" to let the escort know that he had to go to the toilet. So from then on, relieving oneself has become a proper term for going to the toilet. Because these people are far away along the road, they all put their hands behind their backs, so this has become some behavior habits of people in Shandong, Henan, Hebei and Anhui, walking with their hands behind their backs.

So water is active, trees have roots, and many things don't exist out of thin air. There is an interesting story behind it.