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What does the historical story of 250 tell? Why did 250 become a curse word?
"250" is a popular phrase in China, which has spread all over the country. Now it is simplified to "two" in Uncle Benshan's sketch. My hometown Tai 'an is called "Second Soldiers". Everyone knows what it means, so there is no need to explain it. However, its historical story is little known.

It is said that Su Qin, a lobbyist during the Warring States Period, was assassinated. In a rage, Wang vowed to avenge himself, but the murderer could not be found for a long time. So he came up with a plan. He cut off Su Qin's head, hung it on the gate of the capital of Qi State, and posted a notice saying: Su Qin was a mole, and he was killed as a time bomb to save Qi State. You should be rewarded with 2000 gold coins. I hope the righteous can come and receive the reward.

As soon as the announcement was posted, four people claimed to have killed Su Qin. Wang Qi said, "You are not allowed to lie." The four men insisted that they did it. The King of Qi said, "Well, true warrior, I will give you 2200 gold. But how are you going to divide it? " Four people replied, "Let's split it equally, 250 each." At this time, Hu Jinquan Yajie, a rich girl from Beijing, changed her face. He was very angry and said sharply, "Somebody, pull these four 250 s out and cut them down!" "

There is also a saying that this sentence comes from Tupai Ku. Pai Jiu is an ancient gambling tool, in which there are two kinds of cards, namely "two boards" and "five Yao". These two cards add up to ten, which is called "death ten" when pushing Pai Jiu. "Death ten" is the smallest point in the ninth row. Everyone is older than it, and it can't eat any cards. So gamblers in poker games use the abbreviation "two boards and five boards" to describe helpless and useless people. Over time, in the process of spreading, there was a sound change, and "two boards and five" became "two hundred and fifty", and its meaning also became a satire on the master who was brilliant, unreliable and lacked strings.

The first statement above is a joke, don't take it seriously. The second statement is also far-fetched. In fact, the origin of the word "250" is probably related to ancient coins. There is a square hole in the middle of the ancient coin, so it is also called "Kong Fang Brothers". In order to carry it easily, the ancients used ropes to put money through holes. The same is true for a thousand dollars, which was later called a string. In the Qing dynasty, a string was also called hanging. Li Li's sister Feng said that xiren earns two taels of silver a month, and Qingwen and other big girls earn a penny a month. One thousand yuan is called crane, and one yuan is also called big one. 500 yuan is a half-crane, and half-crane is not enough, which shows that a person's mind is very poor. Chu Opera is an ancient local opera, which is composed of harmony tones, folk songs, Taoist feelings, bamboo horses, stilts and folk rap popular in eastern Hubei during Daoguang period in Qing Dynasty. There is a traditional drama "Dream of Red Mansions" in Chu Opera, which tells the story of a shoemaker selling shoes on the 30th of the twelfth lunar month. At that time, there was a saying that it was "half-baked". Nowadays, Jinan dialect often says that someone's words and deeds are "half-baked" or "half-baked". "Semi-trailer semi-trailer" means "250", which originally meant the literary giant of 250. But after playing, it became a curse word to describe "semi-trailer is better than semi-trailer"