This "wrestling meeting" became the origin of China people's "wrestling" after Manchu entered the Central Plains. Wen Kang, a Manchu writer, said in the 33rd chapter of the popular novel Biography of Heroes of Children:
-"Look at Mencius and Gao Zi, who carried the pole for half their lives. Later, only one of them got "sexual taste" and the other got "sexual taste, so if it is sexual taste, it can be cured." 」
Of course, this kind of "wrangling" was not confined to the Qing Dynasty, but was inherited and developed by today's Taiwan Province Province and became the most important part of "Taiwan Province Province's saliva". "Buckling" is a cultural habit, which accuses others in a clever and deceptive way, while avoiding other people's accusations. "Bargaining" is a waste of saliva, without any construction. This is sloppy and specious. Recently, rambling and gossiping, such as "I am a law student, how can I know how to break the law", "How can I break the law for others" and "We received the donation from the Jade Palace, and so did the Kuomintang", are all "wrangling".
"Bargaining" comes from the "Bargaining Association" in Northeast China.
"Bargaining" comes from the "Bargaining Association" in Northeast China. If we look at the general history of human language and cultural habits, we will find that every civilized language has been a "way of action" for a long time, not a medium of "way of thinking". And the so-called "mode of action", it is in the war between the two armies, before exchanging bows and spears, there must be mutual abuse between the leaders and soldiers of the two armies:
If we look at the Old Testament, we will find that before King David defeated the giant Goliath, there was an exchange of curses, and then King David, a child, made a surprise move and threw his stone.
If we read novels about China's ancient wars, such as Xue's Crusade to the East and Dangkou Zhi, etc. We will find that before the two armies enter the battle, there is bound to be a shouting between the commanders, and then the loser will immediately shout "Cut the crap and save his life" and start killing each other. Moreover, this plot is not invented by novelists, but also recorded in official history.
In addition, from the British heroic epic "Beowulf", we can also see the "Battle of Ma Erdun" between the Vikings and Saxons at that time, and the two armies also scolded each other across the Heihe River before going to war.
This scene also exists in Shakespeare's King Lear and Julius Caesar.
Bragging and swearing with ugly words are the same ways of "fighting" in ancient wars. However, with the continuous development of mankind, this curse of "shouting" began to turn into a ritual oral contest, which will be allowed at a certain time. In the ceremony oral contest, people must keep their mouths and minds clean, and no swearing, nonsense and other taboos are allowed. This is a "mouth holiday".
In ancient Greece, there was a so-called "Logomachy", which was a kind of "treacherous words" (V
Before16th century, there was also a ceremony of exchanging curses in northern England, mainly in Scotland and northern Europe, which was also called "flying ting", which changed from the word Flyta in northern Europe to Flitan in old English, and then to flying ting. This is also a contest between swearing and nonsense. In order to anger each other, rumors and attacks can even be allowed. For example, an Icelandic bishop is called "having nine illegitimate children, but his father is his assistant". This kind of "wrangling" has developed a very unique "Scardick abusice Rhyme" in Northern Europe, from which we can find the skills of swearing. During the Renaissance, Erasmus, a great Dutch critic, wrote many critical articles in this way, and Shakespeare's Taming the Shrew also expressed this kind of curse.
Provocation and scolding were once part of the war.
With the development of western China, we can also think that the "wrestling meeting" in northern China should also be the same type of language competition and "lip service". In addition to the "Mouth Festival", many local chronicles in Northeast China also list 1 month 15 as a festival, and in some places even turn it into a "stealing festival"-whoever steals something on this day will laugh it off.
In addition to the "false mouth" mentioned above, other new studies in modern times have also found many similar situations. For example, Donald F. Thompson, a cultural anthropologist, once studied the indigenous society in Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia, and found that they also had a "mouth holiday". During the holidays, people can openly say dirty words such as sexual reproductive organs, defecation, betrayal, incest, and even rape and animal rape. In addition to "lip service", if you scold vigorously and expose your organs publicly, you will not be accused.
For example, the black society in the United States also has this kind of "wrangling" ritual competition. It is called "dozens" or "dirty dozens". The dozens here do not refer to the "dozens" of 12, but the misappropriation of the suffix "bulldozer".
The "wrangling" of black Americans originated from the "word game between Tuareg and Gallas" in Africa before the slave trade. This custom was brought to America when they were sold into slavery. Because this custom of mutual scolding also includes ritual whipping and fighting after mutual scolding, the suffix "bulldozer" was removed and called dozing, so the elements of mutual fighting decreased and the elements of "bickering" and "wrangling" increased. As for the original word "bullwhip", its meaning changed after the Civil War. At that time, white terrorists appeared everywhere in the southern United States. They used all kinds of violence to prevent blacks from voting in the election, so they were called bulldozers. The name 1876 first appeared. Later, when bulldozers were invented, the word was used.
Arguments and bickering can't put forward a word "reason"
To sum up, from the study of the history of language and culture, we already know that in the process of language use, for a long time, whether in ancient Greece, ancient China, ancient Europe, or even in Africa and the Arab world before Islamization, language was provoked and cursed. Used to be part of the war. The mouth is an extension of the fist, and the cunning and evil of the mouth combined with the injury of the fist has created a barbaric past. The confrontation between the two armies will inevitably lead to some shouting and bickering before the start of the battle, which is even more imposing and intense. This is an ancient record of mouth doing bad things.
Later, this speech act of war began to become a ritual "wrangling" or "bickering" in the form of cultural relics, and even became an activity in the folk art of life, such as China's cross talk, Japanese "stand-up cross talk", "cross talk" and various "wrangling" in the West. In this ritual "false mouth", the mouth is not used as a reflection.
There is an important saying in the sixty-fifth chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions: "Three people can't give a truth", which means that even if three people are eloquent, they can't give a truth. In other words, only "reason" is the greatest, and no matter how cunning the mouth is, it can't compare with "reason"
The problem is that, as one of the remnants of civilization, "fighting", "bickering" and other "bickering" are generally only kept at a specific time or place, becoming a pastime of homesickness. However, in Taiwan Province Province, due to various factors, it has become an atavism phenomenon in the history of civilization development, and our politics has returned to "wrangling" and "bickering". Every day is a "fake mouth", and everyone has become a cunning clown sitting in a sedan chair at the Northeast "wrangling meeting".
"Bargaining" and "bickering" are topics worthy of study and reflection in human historical language behavior. Perhaps we should be more alert to the racial degradation represented by Taiwan Province Province, which was drowned by saliva. (
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