Since the wife’s cheating has led to the fragmentation of many marriages, cheating is an unethical thing, so women who have cheated on their wives are often called “broken shoes”, while men who cheat on their wives are called Became "greened".
Why does "being cheated" mean that the wife has cheated? What is the origin of the word "wife cheating" with the word "bastard"?
What to say when your wife cheats
The "Yuan Dian Zhang" stipulates that the head of the prostitute and her relatives wear green headscarves.
Prostitutes in ancient times were often called "brothel girls."
During the Yuan and Ming dynasties, musicians and prostitutes had to wear green clothes, green clothes, and green headscarves to mark the lowly jobs they were engaged in.
Since then, green has become a despicable color in culture, and is usually looked down upon by people.
So later when a man’s wife cheated on her, they would say that the man had been cuckolded and his wife had cuckolded her.
The origin of tortoise and cheating
Tortoise usually refers to a turtle, and the turtle's shell is usually They are dark green, and often have their heads and limbs retracted in their shells.
Therefore, people associate the color of the turtle shell with cuckoldry, and the behavior of the turtle - shrunken and timid image also symbolizes that a man does not dare to do anything after his wife cheats. as a performance.
And bastard means calling someone an illegitimate child, which is the same as bastard (illegitimate child, bastard, bastard) in English.
In Jin Yong's "The Deer and the Cauldron", Wei Xiaobao once explained the meaning of "Torrent" - that is, his wife steals someone.
The allusion of red apricots coming out of the wall
The Song Dynasty storybook "A Ghost in a Cave in the Western Mountains" describes a woman There is "like twisting a green plum to see a handsome young man, like riding a red apricot out of the wall."
Song Dynasty Ye Shaoweng's poem "It's Not Worth It to Visit the Garden": "The garden is full of spring scenery and can't be contained, and a branch of red apricot comes out of the wall."
It’s not enough for the apricot blossom to simply refer to the beauty of spring, and then to romantic beauties; the key problem is that this apricot blossom always has to be linked to the “top of the wall”. What is "wall"?
Wall means "division". If there is only one person on both sides of the wall, it means that the man and the woman are resentful; if there is a man and woman separated on both sides of the wall, it means that a couple is madly in love. Therefore, "wall" is a very ambiguous thing. Let’s look at the connection between the apricot blossom and the wall.
