Is there any slang or vocabulary with allusions and meanings like "jealousy"?

Relieving oneself in folk means going to the bathroom. Why is going to the bathroom called "relieving one's hands"? It is said that this word comes from the ancient forced immigration process, in order to prevent immigrants from escaping and facilitate management. The immigrants' hands were tied, and when they needed to use the bathroom, they told the officers and soldiers, "Sir, please relieve yourself, I need to pee." After being simplified over time, relieving oneself became synonymous with urinating, so it spread. There are several versions of this statement. The most typical one is the immigration story of the big locust tree in Hongdong, Shanxi. Hongdong immigration happened during the Hongwu and Yongle years of the Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, due to more than ten years of war, coupled with natural disasters and epidemics of plague, people in the northern region, especially in Hebei, Henan, and Shandong, died one after another, and all their homes were empty. However, military chaos and various disasters rarely affected Shanxi. Compared with neighboring provinces, Shanxi has a stable society, a prosperous economy and a prosperous population. After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, in order to restore and develop agricultural production, the policy of immigration was adopted to move farmers from Shanxi, a small and densely populated area, to Hebei, Henan, Shandong and other places with a large area and sparsely populated areas. Others include the incident of Zhang Xianzhong in the early Qing Dynasty. It is said that when Mr. Gu Jiegang was accompanying the capital Chongqing in the 1940s, when he talked about "relieving hands" with friends, he explained it like this: The common saying is "relieving hands", but the meaning was not clear at first. When I entered Sichuan and talked with people, I learned that in the late Ming Dynasty, the people of Sichuan who had not been massacred by Zhang Xianzhong only had one or two tenths, and all the fertile land was reduced to grass. Therefore, in the early Qing Dynasty, the government forced immigrants to fill Sichuan first with people from Huguang, and then filled Huguang with people from Jiangxi. When I immigrate, I will tie his hand and lead him along, just as he does today. Those who were moved were anxious and would often ask for relief, saying "relieve your hands!" Then the term "relieve your hands" was passed down from generation to generation, and it was spread to other countries, so don't question its meaning. Just like when school children are taking exams, they must take out a courtesy card when going to the toilet, so going to the toilet is also called "going out of respect". ————Controversy———— Regarding the word “relief”, it should have appeared before the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the ancient Chinese corpus: 8080/ccl_corpus/, it was found that the word “relief” appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty scripts, which shows that the word has been circulated. . After talking about the cold and warmth, Wei Sheng got up and went to relieve himself. In the same year below, I happened to look through the calligraphy on my desk and saw that this family letter was funny, so I deliberately recited it aloud. Wei Sheng was caught off guard, blushed, and said, "This is unreasonable. Because his younger brother teased him, he wrote it as a joke. Therefore, relieving one's hands means urinating should have become a fact in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and it may have become a reality in the Song and Yuan dynasties. Immigration has expanded, and Chen Shisong and others hold this view.

——More————In addition to the immigration theory, there are also the Yinyu theory and the double-yin theory of the term “relief”. The word "hand" that refers to "jieshou" is originally "溲", and "jieshou" actually means "jiejie", which was changed to "jieshou" due to the mispronunciation. Luo Weili and others hold this view. A cobbler) ps: However, in fact, Jie Zhi appeared later than Jieshi, and the order is not right. The double-yin theory holds that "Jie-shou" developed from the double-syllable "jie" in the meaning of defecation. This is the view. It's Yang Lin. He thinks that "jie" means "relieve", and the addition of a hand is a requirement for Chinese bilingualism (get out, get out). ps: This is difficult to interpret. The word "jie" itself appeared very early. Why does it mean "to relieve one's hands" rather than "to untie one's belt"? Some people say it has something to do with "cleaning one's hands", but it is not very early to clean one's hands. This leads to a circular argument... From an etymological point of view, I I am more inclined to the first theory, but it did not appear only in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but happened very early. "Song Book·Wang Hongzhuan": When I was sent to Xinlin, I saw the binding, but I still couldn't get rid of it. It is very common to use an elegant word to represent something that is not easy to say. I think of the poor Jin Jinggong's "Zuo Zhuan": "General. Eating, bloating, going to the toilet, sinking and dying." However, the word "relieve" appeared in the Tang Dynasty, but it did not mean to defecate, but to break up. Tang Hanyu's "Ji Henan Zhang Yuan Foreign Language": "The two are facing each other, In other words, he relieved the back of his hands and stayed there for eleven years.

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