What do you mean by cows and horses? How did cattle and horses become popular recently? )

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In recent years, if any group has made the greatest "contribution" to Chinese, it is definitely not a professor in the Chinese Department of a university, nor a group of novelists, but the vast number of netizens.

From "few words" to "quatrains", from "Gou Ba" to "Sheng Ma", Chinese people have greatly expanded the breadth and depth of Chinese with their unparalleled abstract construction ability, and can be called real "language masters".

These corpora, which are beyond the scope of linguists' research, are expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye, and masters have recently added a new word to this corpus: ox and horse.

If "knighthood" can be easily defined as an adverb of degree indicating reinforcement, then the connotation of "ox and horse" is obviously more complicated and vague.

Source: Chicken Dictionary

People who are new to this word often need a lot of examples to help them understand why everyone can be a "cow and horse".

When playing games, my teammate is too bad. That teammate can be called "ox and horse".

Here, "ox and horse" is generally a derogatory term.

Good friends around you can also be called "cattle and horses".

The "ox and horse" here is generally a noun, which is biased towards praise.

There are even people who call themselves "cows and horses".

Life is not smooth, that is the life of cattle and horses; If the major is not good, it is the major of cattle and horses.

Here, "ox and horse" is generally a negative adjective.

When a paragraph begins with "what kind of cow or horse", it is probably an modal particle.

If you are willing to translate it into "whatsthehell/f * * k?" "Cattle and horses" is an appositive of "what"

However, when the word "ox and horse" is applied to specific sentences, its meaning often becomes ambiguous. For example, the following example.

I understand, but I don't fully understand.

1000 population has 1000 "cattle and horses".

Besides vague semantics, the origin of the word ox and horse has also become a mystery with different opinions.

Some people say that this is the Lickitung pronunciation of "rogue", but I believe that the proportion of people with dysphonia in China should not be too high.

Others insist that this statement comes from the northeast dialect, but this inaccurate map cannon explanation can easily lead to anger.

So far, the only consensus that can be reached on this issue is that the popularity of "cattle and horses" began on some short video platforms, and accompanied by earthy love stories and brainwashing music, it spread from the online world to the real space.

Unfortunately, it may be a platform for the spread of "cattle and horses", but it is not the real birthplace of "cattle and horses".

When people use the new network word "ox and horse", they often ignore the fact that a lively language can not be separated from the local people and people.

The word "ox and horse" is different from those created by the Internet. It has never disappeared among the people of China.

At least in the Republic of China, "ox and horse" has been a conventional saying.

At that time, those rickshaws who were full of energy, supported by one pair of feet, came and went in the wind and rain, and were crowned as "cattle and horses" or "cattle and horses go".

Xiangzi camel belongs to pure cattle and horses.

This title was quickly applied to other low-level workers, but all industries with low wages and high labor intensity can basically be called "cattle and horses"

The women textile workers who work 15 hours a day are cows and horses.

Teachers who don't have enough to eat and want to "cover their stomachs with one hand and write books on the blackboard with the other" are all cows and horses.

"Cattle and horses" are used so much that even ordinary people who live in poverty and have poor prospects often call themselves cattle and horses.

According to the memoirs of Taiwan Province writer Wang Dingjun,

Some Kuomintang officers who were abolished after the Anti-Japanese War stood begging on the streets of Shenyang and cursed the graduation certificate of Huangpu Military Academy as a "certificate of cattle and horses".

Memoirs of Wang Dingjun

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Later, even unproductive students began to call themselves cows and horses. "I want to serve the society, but because I am in this depressed year, it is more difficult to find a job than a camel passing through the eye of a needle." Students who are unemployed after graduation and have no hope of life write articles to ridicule their campus life.

In addition to the bottom workers, ordinary citizens and intellectuals at that time were also consciously better than "cattle and horses" with little physical strength. Chongqing in the period of "supporting the capital" is a typical example.

Zhang Henshui accurately described this group of people in the book "Cattle and Horses Walk":

Although an educated person has to work as hard as a rickshaw puller in order to maintain basic food and clothing, his future is even bleaker than that of a rickshaw puller. The coachman only pulls people a short distance, but he has to pull the boss all his life; Drivers' roads are visible, but their roads are invisible. I have to spend money myself, and some people ask them for money. It is completely "both cattle and horses."

He also wrote The Golden Powder Family.

Of course, the "cattle and horses" at that time were not completely linked to poverty.

Intellectuals think they are "cows and horses", but they think that rich girls and speculators who are obsessed with money and busy playing mahjong every day are also "a group of cows and horses in Chongqing"

Some people will say that this is the old calendar of the old society. Now, how do young people in the new world begin to greet each other with "cows and horses"?

"Two-legged bookcase" may say that this is another misuse and pollution of language by network culture.

They said the same thing in the vernacular movement a hundred years ago, but they said it wrong a hundred years ago.

It is normal for mainstream young people to be confused about the origin of "cattle and horses". Even some friends who read the article heard the word "ox and horse" for the first time, because this word full of Jianghu flavor originally came from another world that did not resonate and intersect with them.

"Cattle and horses", a word from the old society, has been living in the gap that mainstream civilization can't reach, and it is the mantra and common code of individual social people.

It is popular again in the new world and has been endowed with richer connotations. This is just a bottom-up spread, and it is another form of rural encircling cities.

All kinds of "social people" bring the "social addiction" that young people have never talked about to a brand-new communication platform.

Inadvertently said "cattle and horses", poked the strong curiosity of young people from all walks of life, and also let them find resonance.

Just as blacks are called hommie, women are called sisters, and revolutionaries are called comrades, in this new era, young people at the bottom are commensurate with cattle and horses.

But from "grassroots" to "_ silk" and then to "cattle and horses", if you think about it carefully, you will find that as an identity code, it is not just the name that changes.

The grassroots in the blog era may still be budding, and the diaosi in the post-era is just the self-mockery of the little people under the huge gap.

Today, young people who should be the target of all cultural forces are also stratified as quickly as the world they live in.

Young people claim to be problem writers, young people claim to be social people, young people watch Heidegger and young people watch short videos.

The "great expectations" described by old habits have created endless free fantasy in the minds of young people at the bottom, and aroused waves of enthusiasm for changing their destiny. But when the big stick of reality hits them, they not only accept mediocrity, but even choose to love mediocrity again.

Book wisdom is no longer popular, street wisdom is popular, young people naturally follow suit, and even self-address is gradually sinking. An "ox and horse" has a certain meaning of corrupt hooligans.

This is the real "numbness".

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In fact, from grass roots, silk to cattle and horses, some things have never changed, and that is to call "we" behind them.

From "I used to be an ox and horse, but now I want to be a man" to "I used to be an individual, but now I want to be an ox and horse", it seems to be the self-mockery and ridicule of young people who are at a loss, but what can't be concealed is the desire of a group of people to exchange their labor for income; Eager to cross a narrow door and lead to a broad world; I am eager for grassroots counterattack and eager for cattle and horses to turn over.

After all, no one really wants to be an ox or a horse, even if everyone calls himself an ox or a horse.

If they can realize the power of language, they may have to start by not saying "cow and horse".