Mouse's alias mouse has a very long history. This name was born in the Five Dynasties, probably around 10 century. It was an era of frequent wars and harsh feudal rule, with various names of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous fees. For example, farmers have to pay salt tax to eat salt and raise silkworms? Silkworm tax should be paid; Even if you pay a stone of grain, you have to add two buckets of loss. This is called "sparrow-mouse consumption". What kind of birds don't eat at all, you have to add "sparrow consumption" and compare it every year? The number of cases is still rising. Poor people vent their anger on mice and curse them as "mice".

In the ancient context, the mouse has obvious symbolic meaning, "Twinkle, twinkle, no food for me!" I am a three-year-old woman, and I am willing to take care of it. From the Book of Songs, the image of a mouse is defined as: greedy, dirty, evil ... a mouse with a bad reputation, and later called "mouse". What is the reason for this name?

"Cang Xie" explains: consumption, consumption also. Guangya explains: consumption, reduction. The extended meaning is: impairment, consumption, exhaustion, exhaustion. This is the original intention of consumption. At the same time, when the ancient government collected money and grain from the people, it often used the name of loss, and the extra part beyond the normal amount was also called "consumption".

There are records about "consumption" in Zi Tong Zhi Jian, Nan Shi, Old Five Dynasties History and New Five Dynasties History. In the Southern Dynasties, Yangzhou was fond of drinking and careless about family affairs. I once sent a boy home with a 3000-meter stone and lost it when he arrived. Zhang rate asked the reason and answered "the sparrow lost the mouse." Zhang said with a smile, "What a magnificent sparrow mouse!"

The saying that "sparrows and mice consume" here has a great origin, and it is clearly recorded in the History of the Old Five Dynasties: in autumn and winter, farmers have to pay two liters more for every ton of grain, which is called "sparrows and mice consume". During the reign of Liu Zhiyuan Ganyou in the later Han Dynasty, farmers had to pay two more buckets to treat them, which was called "saving money", and the people suffered greatly.