How did the term "refueling" come about?

The origin of gasoline, it is said that the Qing dynasty Jiaqing years, there is a man Zhang tinkle, for more than thirty years, his life is the most importance of the cause of education, during his term of office, every time to the midnight shift, he would send two agents picking a tung oil basket to patrol the city. If he saw that someone was reading at night, he would add a spoonful of oil to his lamp, and before they left, he would say, "Mr. Fudai is adding oil to Mr. Xianggong."

This is the origin of "refueling".

In ancient times, although reading required painstaking study, it also required large expenses. At night, reading required oil lamps, and lighting for one night required a lot of oil, and over the years, many poor families could not afford to pay for the oil. Zhang Ying is a hard-working man, of course, understand the pain and suffering, so after becoming an official, he will give the lamp to the night reading students to refuel, he is really a good official who attaches great importance to education and understanding of the situation.

It was also because of Zhang Ying's good deeds that he was blessed with a son, Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), who was gifted and talented. Zhang Ying's son, Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), was a gifted scholar with a talent that was hard to find in a thousand years, and he emphasized education and training.

In the Olympic Games, Chinese spectators and friends are cheering for both sides of the athletes, and do not care who is the winner, and shouted the word "cheer" in front of foreign friends do not know how to translate, a professor at the Chinese Language University to explain, "cheer!

The word "cheer" comes from China, and the English explanation does not have the meaning expressed in Chinese, so the best explanation for "cheer" is: "jiayou"!

The original meaning of "refueling"

"Refueling" is derived from the ancient "oil press" in China, where the traditional process of oil extraction is to first put the peanuts or rapeseed and other oilseeds through the process of baking, roasting, crushing, After the peanut or rapeseed oil crops are baked, roasted, crushed, steamed, etc., they are made into "oil cakes" and then placed in a wooden press tank.

By adding wooden wedges to both sides to extract peanut oil or rapeseed oil, plus wedge is a force work, often several people to cooperate, together with the force, we palm the hammer in unison shouted to encourage morale, *** with the force, such as "one, two, three, gas," here "gas! "is to increase the meaning of the oil, rather than the later said "add oil".