What is the allusion to 250?
Chinese people often call fools or people who speak rudely, do things carelessly, act casually, and like to make a fool of themselves as "two hundred and five". According to research, there are roughly the following possible sources...
From the story of the Warring States Period
During the Warring States Period, there was a historical figure named Su Qin, who was a strategist. He persuaded the six countries of Qi, Chu, Yan, Zhao, Wei, and Han to unite and form an alliance to deal with the common enemy - Qin. As a result, he was appreciated by the kings of the great countries and was named prime minister. He was known as the "Six Kingdoms" in history. "Sealed as Prime Minister".
While Su Qin was actively serving in Qi State, he encountered an assassin. Su Qin was stabbed in the chest and died that night. King Qi was very angry when he heard the news and immediately ordered the arrest of the murderer. But the assassin has escaped without a trace, where can he catch him? King Qi had an idea and came up with a clever plan to "lead the snake out of the hole". He ordered Su Qin's head to be cut off, and his body was whipped with a whip until his head and face were covered in blood. Then the bloody head was hung at the city gate, and a yellow list was posted, which read: "Su Qin is a big traitor, and he deserves to die. King Qi has always wanted to kill him, but he didn't think of any good way. Fortunately, there is a righteous man who can kill him for the people." The king of Qi issued a decree to reward him with a thousand taels of gold, and invited righteous men to receive the reward."
As soon as this list came out, someone took the bait. Four people came to receive the reward, and they all insisted that Su Qin killed him himself. So the soldiers "invited" them to the King of Qi. When King Qi saw the four of them, he gritted his teeth with hatred. But he still asked seriously: "How do you four divide these one thousand taels of gold?" The four people didn't know that they had fallen into the trap, and they were so happy that they immediately replied: "This is easy, 1000÷4=250, Two hundred and five each."
When King Qi heard that they were still thinking about the bounty, he was furious: "Push these four two hundred and five and kill them!" These four people became scapegoats and were killed. . The real assassin, said to be a killer sent by Qin State, had long since fled back to Qin State. Since then, the folk saying "two hundred and five" has been left, and people often use it to describe fools, idiots and people who are deceived by wealth and lust.
Origin from folklore
Once upon a time, there was a scholar who spent all his sleep and food and studied hard in order to obtain fame, but he never passed the exam and did not even have a son. In his later years, the old scholar finally became disheartened and indifferent to fame and fortune. Instead, he was blessed with a son and a daughter. When the scholar recalled his life's success and failure, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion, so he named his two sons: one was called Chengshi and the other was called Banshi. From then on, the scholar taught classes behind closed doors at home and lived a happy life. One day, the scholar told his wife: "I'm going to the market for a walk. You can supervise the second son to write at home. The eldest son should write three hundred words, and the younger son should write two hundred words." After the scholar came back from the market, he asked the second son how they were doing at home. The old wife He replied: "I wrote it, but the success is not enough, and the failure is more than enough. Both are two hundred and five!"
Originally from pushing Pai Gow
Pai Gow is a kind of gambling equipment, among which there are There are two cards, "Erban" (four points) and "Mowu" (six points). These two cards together equal ten points. In the gambling activity of pushing Pai Gow, it is called "dead ten". ". It is the smallest dot in Pai Gow. No one is bigger than it. It cannot "eat" any tiles, so later people used the word "Er Ban Wu" (abbreviation of Er Ban and Mo Wu) to jokingly call everything. People who can't do well and can't be controlled. As time went by, the "two board five" became "two hundred five".
Origined from arcade games
The popular arcade game "Street Fighter" in the 1990s came from an arcade game in the 1990s called "Street Fighter". It is a fighting game. When one party defeats the other party with full health, the system will display an English PERFECT. Since the system's pronunciation is not standard (the game is made in Japan and dubbed by Japanese), the pronunciation is very similar to "two hundred and five", so I made fun of it. The one who wins. To this day, in fighting arcade games (such as The King of Fighters), PERFECT is still called "Two Hundred and Five", as friends who played arcades in the 1990s know. Of course the "two hundred and five" here is just a joke!
From IQ
IQ actually means intelligence quotient, which is an index to measure intelligence, with the highest index being 250.
Those above 140 are close to extremely high talents (foreign countries often refer to such people as "geniuses"), those between 120 and 140 are very talented, 110 to 120 are high talents, 90 to 110 are normal talents, and 80 to 90 are subnormal talents. Ability, 70 to 80 is borderline normal ability, 60 to 70 is mild intellectual weakness, 50 to 60 is profound intellectual weakness, 25 to 60 is sub-idiot, and those below 25 are idiots. The limit of normal intelligence is IQ 90 to 110. Generally speaking, if a person can reach 140 in the normal question bank for measuring IQ, he is considered a genius. It is said that Einstein's IQ reached 180, so an IQ of 250 can be said to be a super genius. Some people say that there is only a fine line between genius and mental illness, so the level of 250, which is almost unreachable, is more often used to describe fools (some people are described as Einstein, which means that his words and actions are What those of us with ordinary intelligence cannot understand are either geniuses or idiots).
Other explanations
According to a middle school Chinese document, ancient people divided silver into taels. Generally, five hundred taels was an integer unit. It was wrapped in paper. At that time, five hundred taels was wrapped in paper. It is called "a letter", and two hundred and fifty taels is a "half letter" of silver. Because it is homophonic with "half-crazy", people later also called crazy people "two hundred and five".
Once upon a time there was a fool whose family was in ruins. One day he went to sell a family heirloom, and it was written "Sold for 258 taels of gold" on the treasure. When he was selling, someone bargained with him and insisted on only giving 250. He thought 250 was 250, so he sold 250 taels of gold. , many people laughed at him for asking for 8 taels of gold, and he was a fool. Since then, people have called people who are confused two hundred and five.
In modern times, it is said that some people learn to sing the songs of Xing Wu Bai, but they can't imitate them. Others say he can count at most half a five hundred.
In the dialects of Zaozhuang, Weishan, and Xuzhou, Jiangsu, "half-shuo (pronounced 'half-floating')" means "two hundred and five". Here, a fool or someone who speaks improperly, does not take things seriously, does things casually, and is good. People who make a fool of themselves are called "half-cooked". Speaking of "two hundred and five"
"Two hundred and five" is not a very old word. Needless to say, it is not included in "Erya", "Shuowen", and "Kangxi Dictionary", and it is not found in "Ciyuan" and "Cihai". Only "Modern Chinese Dictionary" contains the entry, but does not indicate the source. It only prompts the sentence "[Fang] Half a bottle of vinegar." "Half bottle of vinegar" comes from the Yuan drama "Sima Xiangru's Story of the Bridge": "Nowadays, ordinary people on the street After reading a few sentences in the book and chewing on the words, people call him a half-bottle of vinegar. "The 64th chapter of "The Story of the Stone" in the Qing Dynasty has: "There is also a half-bottle of vinegar scholar." What is "a half-bottle of vinegar", that is, "a bottle of vinegar is half full." "Dangling" is a metaphor for showing off in front of others despite knowing little about something. It is also called "half-baked". In fact, "Modern Han" is only half right and makes a "detour." "Two hundred and five" refers to the "number of money" and is more closely related to "half-baked".
Just as "Madaha" originated from Ma Sanli's cross talk "Buying a Monkey", the "root" of the saying "two hundred and five" may also be found in literary and artistic works. In earlier written records, we can see that Chapter 83 of "The Strange Current Situation Witnessed in Twenty Years" by Wu Jianren of the Qing Dynasty (published from 1903 to 1905): "It turns out that he was a talented scholar from the south of the Yangtze River. A fellow student who donated 250 yuan was fooling around outside. "In 1913, the Shanghai Asia Film Company produced the short film "Two Hundred and Five White Xiang Chenghuang Temple" directed by Zhang Shichuan. Ding Chuhe starred in the protagonist "Two Hundred and Five". This farmer who entered Shanghai for the first time, because he didn't understand the rules, was full of stupidity, and kept making farces, he was played vividly and left a deep impression on people. After that, "Two Hundred and Five" spread like wildfire and became popular. everywhere. In 1924, Chen Duxiu mentioned "Two Hundred and Five" in his article "Recovering the Right to Education". In 1949, Shanghai Datong Film Company produced the movie "The Story of Two Hundred and Five", which depicts an upright and honest opera actor who loves to fight against injustice, nicknamed "Two Hundred and Five". After that, "Two Hundred and Five" became even more "famous" and spread almost throughout the country.
In addition, according to the famous dramatist Weng Ouhong, in the early years of Kun Opera there was "Butterfly Dream" which interprets the story of Zhuangzi's transformation. Bangzi was renamed "The Big Split the Coffin" and two soul boy characters "Two Hundred and Five" and "Three Hundred and Three" were added. It was quite a gimmick and beat Kun Opera. The Peking Opera "Butterfly Dream" is basically a translation of Bangzi, and Xiao Cuihua (Yu Lianquan)'s performance was not outstanding.
Liu Binkun, the famous Shanghai ugly man, re-created the role of "Two Hundred and Five". He created an original oilcloth gown, waistcoat, and cap with cool paper patterns. His skills were very profound. After being carried off the stage, he stood on a chair, holding a cigarette pouch in his right hand, and bending his chest with his left hand. , which lasted for a moment without any movement, the audience was amazed by the miraculous skill and called him a "paper man". There is a line in the Peking Opera "Butterfly Dream": A miscellaneous child pretends to be a child and says: "Who is this guy? He looks like the boy I bought for 250 yuan. How is he still alive? It doesn't matter, wait until I call him." "Two hundred and five." The boy replied, "Why do you call me two hundred and five? You bought paper, but I am a human being. How can it be the same?"
"Two hundred and five" means two hundred. Fifty cents is a lot of money, which is "half-baked". (But in fact, one ounce of money is one thousand fen, and half a ounce of money is 500 fen.) From the above analysis, it is speculated that the term "two hundred and five" probably originated in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. As for "half-baked", it may have been earlier.
Chu Opera is an ancient local vocal opera, formerly known as Ohhe Opera, Huangxiao Flower Drum Opera, and Xilu Flower Drum Opera. It was formed by the fusion of Ohhe tune, which was popular in eastern Hubei during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty (1821-1851), and folk songs, Taoist sentiments, bamboo horses, stilts and folk raps in Huangpi and Xiaogan areas. It was renamed Chu Opera in 1926. There is a traditional short play in Chu Opera called "Selling Shoes by a Half-Handed Man", which retells the story of a shoemaker nicknamed "half-baked" who sells shoes on the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month to celebrate the New Year. It shows that there was a saying of "half-baked" at that time.
Two hundred and five is a homophonic pronunciation of the words "two poles, half a fool, and everything", each of which takes the prefix "two, half, and none". It is a very strong curse word.