First of all, the inventor of the first sentence is Sima Qian of the Han Dynasty. The Qin dynasty was the first unified dynasty in history, but it only existed for a short time and ended in a hurry, which also made people feel sorry. As a man of the Han Dynasty, Sima Qian had the deepest understanding of the demise of the Qin Dynasty, and he did not hide his feelings. He mentioned that "(Hu Hai) unified (Li) and (Feng) and appointed Zhao Gao. How painful! The animal's head is singing. "
Obviously, Sima Qian thought that Hu Hai was the chief culprit of the collapse of the Daqin Empire, so he described it as "the chirping of an animal's head", meaning that although Hu Hai had a head like a human, he sang like an animal. This word has also become a classic swear word and has been quoted many times. For example, Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio in the Qing Dynasty wrote: "It's really my brother's life. Will he call me a beast head?"
And the next two swearing words, not from others, turned out to be Confucius, the founder of Confucianism. Why was Confucius angry? Confucius and a man named Yuanrang are very good friends. Both of them are highly respected scholars in Lu, but Yuan Jean doesn't care much about etiquette. One day, an elderly Confucius went to visit his old friend, but Yuan Jean sat across his legs to meet him. This made Confucius, who emphasized etiquette, very angry and scolded him: "You didn't pay attention to filial piety when you were a child, but you have nothing to say when you grow up." You are really a pest when you are old and still alive. " After that, he patted his calf with a cane.
"Confucius said:' Young people have no grandchildren, long people are speechless, and old people are thieves without death!' Pat him on the shin with a stick. The phrase "an old man is a thief" has also been preserved. Of course, Confucius meant that the elderly should set a good example for the younger generation, and he didn't mean to disrespect the elderly, but this sentence has been handed down and is often used to describe those cunning people.
The second object that Confucius scolded was his student Zaiyu, one of the ten philosophers of Confucius. He dared to question and made some achievements, but sometimes Jae-woo was too lazy. Confucius was angry, too, and felt sorry for the student. I even fell asleep when Yu was in class during the day. When Confucius saw his words and deeds, he was disappointed and said, "You can't carve rotten wood, and you can't carve the wall of dung." What is the punishment? "
Confucius means, "You can't carve rotten wood." Dung walls are hard to smear! What is there to blame for such a person? "
Don't carve a rotten log, which has become a famous saying that teachers often use to educate those disobedient students later. Interestingly, many illiterate people didn't understand the meaning of these three famous swearing words before, because they often used figurative rhetoric, but in the eyes of scholars, this is naturally a great insult and a sharp personal attack. Educated people can often get mad, so Confucius and Historical Records are often quoted by scholars.