In Chinese, the word soap has many meanings and usages. Its most common usage is as an adjective or noun, indicating color or mixing with lime to get light gray. For example, the soap used for washing hands is a light gray solid soap.
Soap can also refer to a chemical substance that produces foam and cleaning effect, and is widely used in cleaning products such as detergents, detergents and washing powders. In ancient medicine, soap was also used to foam and knead into pills and other therapeutic drugs.
In Chinese character culture, soap is also used as a surname or place name. For example, there is a story in China's ancient books called "The King of Soaps", which says that he is a brave and skillful general. He led troops to participate in the Fusu rebellion and went through all kinds of hardships and finally defeated the rebels.
The word soap can also be extended to some idioms, such as "soap and white can't be distinguished", which means that black and white can't be distinguished, that is, the truth can't be clear; "Gleditsia sinensis" means that morality is very low and needs to be corrected and educated.
The word soap has many meanings, usages and symbolic meanings in Chinese. Whether as a color, a chemical substance or a place name, it plays an extremely important role and has become a basic element of China's cultural tradition.