What is flattery?

Flattery originated from the culture of Yuan Dynasty. When Mongolians meet horses, they often pat each other's horses on the ass, feel how fat they are, and casually praise them as "good horses" to win the favor of their owners.

However, after a long time, some people, regardless of other people's horses' quality and strength, flatter and describe bad horses as good ones. Gradually, people call flattery to superiors "flattery", which is used to satirize the behavior of flattering others regardless of objective reality.

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Mongolia is a nation that won the world at once, so most of the officials in the Yuan Dynasty were military commanders. Horses are usually symbols of the general's power, status and position. The best praise from a subordinate to a superior is to pat and praise his horse. Gradually people call flattery to superiors "flattery".

This is because compliments are different, but flattery is the same. This is the origin of "flattery". After Mongolia entered the Central Plains and established the Yuan Empire and Yuan Capital, its culture gradually infiltrated into the Han culture, and the word "flattery" was handed down.

Some people also say that you should never kiss a horse's ass when you kiss a horse, but because Han people seldom ride horses, they think of "kissing a horse" as "flattering". As for whether the horse's ass can be patted, it is still inconclusive. Anyway, just don't shoot horseshoes.

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