The meaning of cloth

Cloth refers to ordinary clothes made of cloth; In ancient times, it refers to ordinary people.

Reading ancient prose, even recent works, you can encounter the word "cloth". "Cloth and food" often describes simple living; "Buyi Buyi" simply refers to the working people, and Buyi refers to the civilians.

In ancient times, "cloth" refers to linen and other fabrics, and "silk" refers to silk fabrics. Rich people wear silk and silk fabrics, while civilians wear hemp and kudzu fabrics. Later, he was also called an official scholar by Buyi.

Cloth refers to cloth clothes and linen clothes (people used to wear linen clothes in ancient times). "Ancient and Modern Novels Moonlight and Liu Cui Monk Degree": "Liu Cui attacked again. Every full moon, he takes off his lead and wears cloth, and reads Buddha behind closed doors. " That's what it means.

Cloth refers to ordinary people. Go back to chapter 1 15 of the History of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty: "Yue Wei said,' I have carefully observed that the king of Qin is a man with rich eyes and long eyes. He is full of the heart of the tiger and the wolf, and he is ungrateful to the remnants. He downplayed others when selecting candidates, and ignored others when he didn't need them. Today, no one, I will not hesitate to bow down to the cloth; If you succeed, the world will be full of fish!

Because the word "Shu Ren" is a name for Shu Ren in the autocratic era, it is relative to people outside the ruling class, so calling yourself "Shu Ren" is actually a little spiritual compensation when Wang expresses his demands in front of officials, and it is a humble name, which acquiesces that he is the object of control and rule.