Where does the word "picking up ashes" come from?

Scoop up ashes

Open classification: dialect, Chinese, Shandong dialect

Scoop up ashes

Picking up ash, also called climbing ash, is a euphemism for gathering ash. The gentle name of the doe is the snipe. Poly means * * *. It is said that mammals have no taboos and ethics in sexual life and are not bound by social principles. People think that animals will be incestuous.

This is a word to describe incest, which refers to the incest behavior of father-in-law and daughter-in-law having sexual relations. There are many stories and legends about the origin of the word "picking up ashes". One way of saying this is: in the incense burner in the temple, there are a lot of tin foil that has been burned for a long time, forming a large piece, and the monk picks it out and sells it. Later, people near the temple found out and came to steal tin from the stove. Because tin daughter-in-law has the same pronunciation, it is extended to the code word of old man stealing daughter-in-law.

There is also a saying that when people make tin pots, in the process of cleaning molding sand, they deliberately scrape off more tin, and the scraped tin is hidden in the furnace ash. Nowadays, people who play with gold and silver jewelry also use this method to steal scraps from customers. Compared with some legitimate craftsmen, this technique is a bit unsightly.

Folk masons always leave some tails when making things for people. When buyers buy them back, they need to find masons in their own village or nearby to eliminate this redundant work. It is a custom in rural areas to give some money even for a meal at noon. This is a way for masons to take care of each other.

Wang Anshi didn't know what was going on, and he was also labeled as a duster. It is said that his son was a fool who died young, his daughter-in-law was beautiful, Wang Anshi's wife died, and Wang Anshi buried a love poem in the incense burner at home. His daughter-in-law found it when she was burning incense, and she was buried in the incense burner with the poem. So they left together.

There is a poem "Wu Xia Yan Lian" in Qing Dynasty, which is another way of saying it. It seems to be the source of this rumor: after Wang Anshi's son died, he built another house in the backyard for his wife to live in. Perhaps I am worried that my daughter-in-law will go out of the wall and often watch it, but my daughter-in-law misunderstood and wrote a poem on the wall saying: Romantic love does not fall in other people's homes. As soon as Wang Anshi saw it, he cut off the poem with his nails. Because it is a lime wall, it is called scraping ash. In fact, this kind of thing is taken for granted. "Wu Lian" explains its origin: "Weng secretly married his daughter-in-law, commonly known as picking up ashes. People know little about its meaning. According to the past, there were temples, incense was very prosperous, tin paper was burned in the furnace, and the dust accumulated over time, and its tin was exhausted, and the market was profitable. After the neighbors in the temple knew it, it was common to pick up its ashes and steal its tin. Picking up dust and stealing tin. Tin and his daughter-in-law are homophones, which are code words. 」

In the folk, it is often heard that father-in-law and daughter-in-law have sex. Whatever the reason, people often use a proverb to call it "picking up dust" when telling stories. You must think this is a strange code word. Of course, it has a history. Let me tell you a story: in the old society, it was common for a daughter-in-law to commit adultery with her father-in-law because her husband was absent for a long time, or because her husband died young, or because her husband was arrogant. Poor families felt this way, but there were more big families.

There is also a saying that there was a custom in the past that the daughter-in-law had to clean the dust under the stove in order to "pick up the dust". Father wanted to have feelings with his daughter-in-law, so he "bribed" his daughter-in-law by hiding some gold and silver jewelry in the ashes of the stove, or "teased" his daughter-in-law by hiding love letters or love poems. When the daughter-in-law picked up the ashes, she must have seen it. If she was interested, she must have said something, which led to adultery. There seems to be this custom of collecting ashes in some places now. Often the morning after the wedding, my father-in-law or mother-in-law put some red envelopes next to the urine jar, under the broom and in the ashes of the stove. After getting up, the new wife will do some housework such as emptying the urine jar, emptying the ashes of the stove and cleaning the yard, and naturally get red envelopes. But now it has just evolved into a marriage custom, and the new wife may really not do any housework, hehe. ...

1, Legendary Edition

It is said that there was a butcher's house, and his wife died young. Tu family worked hard to raise their son and married a daughter-in-law. However, the butcher was very vicious and abused his daughter-in-law. He made his daughter-in-law do the heavy work and the dirty work. The food he and his son left for their daughter-in-law. If there is less food, don't give it to her. If there is no food, she will starve. My daughter-in-law has just arrived, and she can't understand the foundation here and dare not speak. Later that day, Tu Jia passed his son's window and heard the laughter inside, and was about to reprimand him loudly. It's best to find out what they are doing before reprimanding. So I licked the broken enough paper with my tongue and peeped in. This hope doesn't matter. The butcher's blood is boiling. It turned out that the young couple were having sex. Daughter-in-law took off a net lamp and exposed the darkness waiting for a man. Tu Jia hasn't seen this thing for many years, which aroused his infinite sexual desire. But this is a daughter-in-law, and her son is still around, so we can't share it. So he had to feed the pigs in the backyard. But when he got to the backyard, he saw an old sow, which was exposed. Still in heat. Tu Jia couldn't bear it any longer. He jumped into the pigsty, unbuttoned his pants and raped the sow. The pig obeyed and let him go. After a while, the rain will clear up. Fasten your pants. Give the old sow an extra spoonful of food, so as not to let other pigs compete with it. He didn't leave until it was finished. After that, whenever I thought of sexual intercourse, I came to the old sow to board. For many days, my son tried to kill the old sow several times, but he wouldn't let him, saying that he would keep it at home and let it live. In fact, they bought it to kill the sow that sells meat, and now they leave him as a heterogeneous lover.

Time flies, and I don't feel that two months have passed. On this day, the butcher jumped into the pigsty and played with the old sow. I just finished, and I haven't tied my pants yet. I heard someone behind me say to the old sow, "Old sow, when did you become my mother-in-law and let me wait on you?" The butcher's family jumped out with fear. Looking back, my daughter-in-law was laughing at him. He couldn't help kneeling down to his daughter-in-law, hitting himself in the face and saying, "I'm not human, I'm not human." My daughter-in-law forgives me and my daughter-in-law forgives me. " The daughter-in-law sneered, "It was the pig that killed my father, not me. Please let me forgive my father. You always only care about the sky, ah, only care about the sky. " "Please don't tell anyone, my daughter-in-law," said Tujia. "I will only do it once." The daughter-in-law changed her face and said, "You have to ask someone for help today, too. You call me mother first, and I'll tell you later. " Tu family had to call their mother. The daughter-in-law said, "Will you beat and scold me again?" "No, no, no, not anymore." "From now on, am I allowed to do heavy work?" "No, no,no. I'll do the heavy work myself." "Do you want me to starve to death with leftovers?" "I never dare, later you are my mother, I treat you as a mother. I just want my mother to spare my son this time. " The daughter-in-law smiled at this moment: "You are still my grandfather, and I am still your daughter-in-law. Just be nice to me in the future. " "This must be affirmative." "You put your pants on. I won't tell anyone about your scandal. " Tu Jia kowtowed to his daughter-in-law and said, "I used to be so unkind to my daughter-in-law, but now my daughter-in-law is so unscrupulous that I can't repay her kindness in the underworld." So I got up, fastened my pants and left.

From then on, Tu family really looked like a different person to his daughter-in-law. He secretly spends money to sell meat to his daughter-in-law, and often buys her clothes and accessories; He did any work in a hurry, so he was too tired to let his son do it. Just keep your daughter-in-law away. My son has the habit of drinking. When he was drunk, he beat and scolded his wife. Tu Jia protects his wife and scolds his son. What's more, he quietly collected the clothes of the whole family to wash, so as to save his daughter-in-law from washing. In winter, it's too cold, so is he. The son and daughter-in-law were heartbroken and told him not to wash. He had to wash it. At first, the daughter-in-law just thought he was afraid that she would expose him. Later, my daughter-in-law often went to the pigsty to investigate, but she didn't find that Gompa raped the pig again. Daughter-in-law was also moved by his behavior. Unexpectedly, I have an inexplicable affection for my father. Once she wanted to change clothes and asked her father if he had washed it and put it there. In his room, she saw him secretly kissing with her clothes and smelling with her underwear. It seems that GongDad is in love with himself. She didn't dare to disturb him, but it was better for him. Give him a hearty meal and take his laundry. Another day, my son got drunk and hit his wife. The daughter-in-law ran to the butcher's room crying, and the butcher held her to comfort her. Daughter-in-law actually half-truths, got into Tu's arms and kissed her. So naturally, they came. They had a good time in the room, while their son was drunk and ignorant. Having said that, I have to make it clear that people used to get married very early and got married at the age of fifteen or sixteen. In this way, my father is only in his thirties, which is the age of fire. He is young and experienced, which makes his wife very unhappy. I can't bear to let go of my father.

There is a first time, there is a second time. Dog man and dog woman have been cheating on each other ever since. I was afraid that my son would find out in the room, so I went to the pig killing workshop, where the firewood was thick and convenient. Slowly, the son became suspicious, and the relationship between wife and father seemed different. Then pay attention to observation. This time, the son was drunk again, and the two came to make fun of him. Just after undressing, I suddenly heard my son coming towards them drunk. In desperation, the daughter-in-law hid in the big stove. That's a big stove for killing pigs and removing pig hair, and the pot is also big. It's okay to like someone. The butcher stood in front of the stove. The son asked if he had seen his daughter-in-law, but Tujia saidno. The son asked him what he was doing, and Tujia faltered and came to clean up the dust in the kitchen so that the fire would burn off the pig hair tomorrow morning. My son couldn't find a daughter-in-law in the woodpile, and there was no daughter-in-law anywhere else, so he had to give up. In this way, they escaped their son's repeated search. However, there is no way to cross the river often. Finally, one day, my son suddenly came in and hugged their ass. Father and son fought. A teenage son is inferior to a father in his thirties. His son grabbed a firewood and beat his father. The father seized it and returned it to his son. As a result, he missed and his son died. This time, the two men panicked, and the woman was more thoughtful. She proposed to kill her son as a pig and sell it with pork. Tu Jia agreed, so he handled his son. Others have not seen the butcher for many days and asked where he is. They said he was on a business trip. As the days passed, they also felt that they could no longer deceive others, so they simply reported the news of their son's disappearance to Li Zheng.

First of all, a scholar in this city was once cheated by a butcher when he bought meat. Arguing with him and being scolded by his son. I have always had the idea of revenge in my heart, but I have no chance. This time, it is obviously unreasonable to learn that Tu's son has been missing for many days, but his family is not in a hurry. It is also found that the Tu family is extremely close to their daughter-in-law, so they are suspected of adultery and murder. So a letter of accusation was sent to the county. The county magistrate ordered a guerrilla investigation. Guerrilla and came to Tu's house to ask about the situation. They replied that they had disappeared and found no place. So the guerrillas and Li Zheng watched secretly. But how clever the adulterer and adulteress are. Since the death of their son, they have lived in the same room as husband and wife. Now, seeing people's doubts, I quickly live separately, and I dare not stay in my room after sex, or go back to kill pigs. Guerrillas and raiders raided the workshop, only to find Tu family slowly picking ash from the stove. Asked why he cleared the stove at this time, he replied that he had agreed not to kill pigs or depilate pigs tomorrow morning. Guerrillas and Japan are helpless. However, the scholar will not stop until he reaches his goal. He often sneaked into the butcher's room to observe. That night, I finally saw the two men enter the workshop again, so I called the guerrillas and Li Zheng. Three people suddenly jumped into the butcher's house and rushed into the workshop. But as usual, I still saw Tu Jia wearing only shorts and slowly picking up dust from the stove. The three men couldn't find anyone, so they asked Tu Jia, who was still quarrelling with them. I said I was wearing shorts because I fell asleep. Suddenly I remembered that I hadn't picked up the ashes today, so I just wore shorts to pick them up. The scholar suddenly realized, "Then I'll light the fire for you now." He took the firewood, stuffed it into the stove and lit it. The woman was frightened in the park and shouted, "Don't light the fire, I'll come out." Just as he was talking, a woman climbed out of the stove. Standing in front of the guerrillas and Li Zheng, the black thing was exposed.

The following story need not be told. Two dogs and two people were slaughtered. Only since then, people have called those old men who stole their daughters-in-law "collecting ashes."

2. Ancient Books Edition

"Wu Lian" explains its origin: "Weng secretly married his daughter-in-law, commonly known as picking up ashes. People know little about its meaning. According to the past, there were temples, incense was very prosperous, tin paper was burned in the furnace, and the dust accumulated over time, and its tin was exhausted, and the market was profitable. After the neighbors in the temple knew it, it was common to pick up its ashes and steal its tin. Picking up dust and stealing tin. Tin and his daughter-in-law are homophones, which are code words.

3. Politician Edition

Once Wang Anshi walked past his daughter-in-law's room and saw her sleeping in a bed covered with a transparent gauze curtain, and her eyes could not help shining. After all, Wang Anshi is a poet, so he wrote a sentence on the dusty wall: "There is a pipa in the satin account, and I want to play it." After writing, hide aside and observe the daughter-in-law's movements. Seeing her father-in-law sneaking around outside, the daughter-in-law came out to see what his father-in-law had written on the wall. As soon as she saw his father-in-law leave such a message, she immediately understood what it meant, so she added, "I want to borrow my father-in-law to play a song, especially to leave Feng Shui at my house." Wang Anshi was secretly happy when he saw his daughter-in-law's words. I didn't expect my son to appear at this time, so he quickly wiped the handwriting off the wall with his sleeve. The son was surprised and asked his father what he was doing. Wang Anshi said he was collecting ashes. Another expert said that the word "picking up ashes" was not from Wang Anshi, but from Mr. Su Dongpo, a college student, but the story was similar.

4. Archaeological Edition

Picking up ash, also called climbing ash, is a euphemism for gathering ash. The gentle name of the doe is the snipe. Poly means * * *. It is said that mammals have no taboos and ethics in sexual life and are not bound by social principles. People think that animals will be incestuous.

5. Folk version

Legend has it that the old man and his daughter-in-law have a leg called picking up ashes. Someone explained: Bend down and kneel on the ground to pick up dust, which will dirty your knees. Knee-daughter-in-law homophonic, dirty knee, meaning dirty daughter-in-law.

There is also a folk saying: in the incense burner in the temple, tin foil is burned too much, and after a long time, it forms a large piece, and the monk takes it out and sells it. Later, people near the temple found out and came to steal tin from the stove. Because tin daughter-in-law has the same pronunciation, it is extended to the code word of old man stealing daughter-in-law.

6. Talent Edition

Su Dongpo lost his wife in middle age and never married. He has been busy with business and writing for many years, and he lives a strange life habit alone. In a blink of an eye, my son got married and had children. It happened that Su Dongpo's generation of talents were extremely clever and brilliant. On the other hand, his son does nothing but eat, drink and be merry all day. One day, Su Dongpo's son went out to play again. Su Dongpo sat alone in his study, thinking dully about this problem. At this time, his daughter-in-law saw her father-in-law alone in the study, thought and thought, and brought him a cup of tea. The daughter-in-law, wearing a white gauze skirt as transparent as a cicada, walked up to Su Dongpo with a teacup and whispered, "Dad, please have tea!" "Looking at him affectionately again, this daughter-in-law is actually a talented woman, who knows everything about piano, chess, calligraphy, painting and poetry. The reason why she married Su Jia was the worship of Su Dongpo. Only after he came did he find that his son was so mediocre. He was lonely and disappointed. I have long admired Su Dongpo, and I want to be close to my father-in-law today.

Su Dongpo was deep in thought when he saw his daughter-in-law. After a while, his eyes looked at her. His daughter-in-law's red face, graceful figure and affectionate eyes suddenly got carried away. Just when he was in high spirits, he suddenly remembered that this was his daughter-in-law blushing at once. Daughter-in-law asks: "Why does father-in-law blush?"

Su Dongpo did not answer. He picked up the teacup and quickly wrote two poems on the table with his index finger: "There is a pipa in the green gauze tent, which can't be played even in spring." Because Su Dongpo was lazy and didn't clean the table for a long time, there was a thick layer of ash on the desktop, and the handwriting was very clear.

After reading it, the daughter-in-law quickly wrote two more sentences with her fingers: "If the father-in-law plays a song, the fat water will not flow to outsiders." After writing, I ran away with a red face.

Su Dongpo gloated when his son came back. Seeing his father so happy, he asked, "Father, what do you see?"

Su Dongpo got a fright. He quickly wiped the handwriting on the table with his sleeve and said, "I don't see anything. I'm scraping the dust."