Why are cockroaches called Xiao Qiang?

It is said that the cockroach was originally called Xiao Qiang in Guangdong and Hongkong, and the nickname Xiao Qiang came from Stephen Chow's film. 1993 In the movie "Tang Bohu Dianchou Lane", Zhou plays the role of a poor man who sells himself to bury his father in order to get into Washington, but he meets an opponent who sells himself to bury his family, and even his pet dog who has been with him for many years dies on the spot, so Zhou Lingyi calls the cockroach that was accidentally trampled to death beside him "Xiao Qiang" and cries for it as a pet that has been kept for many years.

Besides, in Stephen Chow's film Counting Dead Grass, Zhou plays an innocent prisoner who murdered his good friend, but this one is a cockroach, not a person. Stephen Chow called it "Xiao Qiang", probably because cockroaches are very tenacious, so it got its name. Derivation * In the 2000 Hong Kong wireless TV series War between the Sexes, the hero Yu Letian (Wong Tze Wah) named his pet cockroach "Xiao Qiang" and also published a song "I am a little strong". From then on, the word "Xiao Qiang" became popular in Cantonese, even became a special vocabulary on the Internet, and almost became synonymous with cockroaches among young people in China. * People who can't be killed in film and television works will also be called "Xiao Qiang", such as the protagonist in Fox's TV series "24 Hours", "Five Xiao Qiang" in Saint saint seiya and the movie "Enough Ginger and Four Xiao Qiang". In addition, some people will call themselves cockroaches, some on purpose, and some because they don't know what cockroaches mean in Hong Kong. Cockroach family has the strongest vitality, which is in line with its super-strong characteristics. Blattella germanica (also known as the cockroach that can't be killed) is very small, with a body length of about 10- 15mm, and its adult is brownish yellow, which is the dominant species of cockroach family that has appeared in China in recent twenty years. Except in the house, it is almost everywhere in restaurants, restaurants, hospitals, ships, trains and passenger planes. Blattella germanica has been in China for nearly twenty years, and has spread from a few big cities to almost small and medium-sized cities, even small market towns and rural areas. According to the data of the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention, a female cockroach can breed up to one million offspring a year.

Some netizens summed up the reason why cockroaches are called Xiao Qiang. Refer to the following:

(1) Cockroaches have a history of hundreds of millions of years, while people have only a few million years.

(2) There are more than 3,700 kinds of cockroaches. . . Omnivores? No. . As long as it is organic matter, almost all of it is strong.

(3) Cockroaches can survive under 40kw X-rays, but what about humans? Please charge in seconds -strong

(4) It can survive for 30 seconds in HCl solution of 12mol/L and NaOH solution of 18mol/L-strong.

(5) You can live underwater for at least 30 minutes-strong.

(6) You can live in a 100 degree-strong furnace for a long time.

(7) It takes 29.4 N-strong to kill cockroaches with traditional weapons, namely slippers.

(8) The crawling speed of cockroaches is slightly slower than the running speed of people, but it does not include the climbing speed on vertical walls. In water, cockroaches are flat, and they even have wings to fly-strong.

(9) After the cockroach's head is broken, the body and head can live for several days respectively, and the final cause of death is hunger-violence.

(10) 【 Cockroaches can live in a vacuum (non-absolute vacuum, such as the universe) for at least 10 minutes.