The origin of the joke, the origin of the word humor

People hear and read stories, sock legends, miscellaneous notes, and so on.

As long as it's funny, it can probably be called a joke in general terms

Jokes are generally not long and talkative, nor do they preach or discipline people with a straight face.

It even deliberately describes some illogical, unreasonable, and unconventional words, thoughts, and dynamics, and always expresses them in a witty tone or mischievous and sarcastic language, shortly, and straightforwardly.

Therefore, it is more able to attract and move people.

For at least 2,000 years, humorous satires have been popular in China to deal with serious and sometimes acute political issues.

Our ancestors used to make a lot of jokes and make a lot of jokes, and of course their backgrounds are very complicated, but it can be said that the people who produced the jokes of Ryūenno are not necessarily real fools, maybe they are wise people.

The form of a joke is light-hearted and funny, but its meaning and spirit are often serious and thought-provoking.

Jokes should also be seen as part of Chinese culture, and it would be extremely difficult to reflect this part of the culture more perfectly.

Speaking of jokes about historical figures, there is a very interesting story in modern China. The joke is about Hu Shih.

Hu Shi was a pioneer in promoting vernacular writing, and once in class, when Hu Shi talked about the benefits of vernacular writing, one of his classmates was not convinced: the vernacular language is not concise, and it takes more words to use and spend more money to send telegrams. Hu Shi said:

Not necessarily. Or let's do a test. A few days ago, a friend of the Executive Yuan sent me a letter inviting me to be the secretary of the Executive Yuan, but I did not want to enter politics, so I sent a telegram refusing, and the reply was written in the vernacular, and it was very economical.

If you are interested, you can write a message in classical Chinese for me to see if it is vernacular or classical Chinese to save money.

The students really drafted one after another, and finally Hu Shi picked out a copy with the least number of words and a complete expression from the telegram, which read: "Talent is shallow, I am afraid that it is difficult to be competent, and I will not obey my fate." After Hu Shi finished reading, he said humorously: I only need 3 words in the vernacular: I can't do it.

This paragraph was later expressed in the film The Great Cause of the Party's Founding was also expressed. It can be said to be a very classic vignette in modern history, it has a kind of progressiveness, and the funny point is also the collision of conservative and progressive.

What's also very interesting is that there is a follow-up to this story.

Peking University professor Huang Kan, nicknamed Huang Maniac, resolutely opposed Hu Shi's vernacular writing, and heard that the above things were counterattacked in class. Praise the classical Chinese is more concise than the vernacular: If Hu Shi's wife dies, his family will telegraph to the clouds:

Your wife is dead, come back quickly! In classical Chinese, only the four words "wife mourns and returns quickly" are sufficient.

Huang's counterattack is a bit damaged, but at least it shows that Hu's example is just an example, and in general the classical Chinese is still much more concise than the vernacular.

A fortune teller in the Jin Kingdom, probably tired of being crooked, said to the monarch: "You are old, you will not live to eat new wheat this year." Of course, Mr. Ji was not happy when he heard it.

When the new wheat came down, he summoned the fortune teller, held the rice bowl and said, "Look, you said that I won't live to eat the new wheat, so I'll eat it for you!" However, you have to die for me first, who told you to be sure!

After that, he asked someone to push out the fortune teller and cut it down. Old man Ji picked up the rice bowl and was about to eat, when he suddenly felt sick to his stomach, and said to the left and right: "No, I have to go to the thatched house first."

With that, he put down the bowl and went out. The left and right attendants waited left and right, the food was cold, and the king had not come back, what was going on? I went around to look for it, but I couldn't find it anywhere in the palace, and finally, in the thatched house, I found Mr. Ji, who had fallen into the dung pit and was already dead.

Hong Xiuquan's second son of God, Yang Xiuqing's third son, Xiao Chaogui's fourth son of God, who said that God can only have one son, the Bible says that God gave birth to his only begotten son to the world, God changed his mind and decided to have a few more, the content of the Bible can be changed as needed, Hong Qiuquan said that this is what Brother Jesus told him last night, Yang Xiuqing said that this is what the Father Jehovah said, Xiao Chaogui said I am Jesus, no one cares about you, this is the Heavenly Father descended to earth, Xiao Chaogui also descended to Earth, you said that this is what Jesus said, pick up the Bible, find someone who can manage Jesus, this is what Jesus and his father said, your father can control you, you can't help but listen to your father, Xiao Chaogui said that he is Jesus, of course, he can also control Jesus and his brother, is this joke funny, in fact, it is not funny, from this it can be seen to what extent the internal contradictions have reached, can not be solved by words, but in this way, to collide and collide.

The Chu people don't know the phoenix, and they ask for pheasants at a high price.

A person in Chu sold pheasants, and a passer-by asked him what kind of bird he was? He lied to passers-by and said, "'Phoenix.'"

Passers-by said, "I've heard of the phoenix for a long time, and I really saw it today." Do you sell? ”

The people of Chu said: "Sell it! ”

Passers-by gave him a lot of money, but he didn't sell it, he asked for it to be doubled, and after it was doubled, he sold it to passers-by. Passers-by wanted to offer the pheasant to the king of Chu, but after one night, the pheasant died, and the passer-by did not regret how much money he spent, but it was a pity that he could not offer the "phoenix" to the king.

When the people of Chu heard about it, they all spread legends, and they all thought that it was a real phoenix, so they would spend so much money to buy it and give it to the king.

Later, the king of Chu also heard about it. The king of Chu was moved by the behavior of the passer-by, so he summoned him and gave him a lot of things and money, and the passer-by got ten times more than the money he paid for pheasants.

Of course, it's Pu Songling's little story, everyone thinks that he writes well, but in fact, I don't know that Pu Songling is a master of indescribable articles. If the subject is free, you can go and see Pu Songling's other works. Let's give you a poem from his old man.

Sitting alone in the study is a wife, and this situation is not known to outsiders], I think everyone understands.

The Allied troops landed in Normandy, and the commander of a German ace tank battalion with almost no defeat in the European theater may have been carried away, and directly led his subordinates and the new powerful Tiger tank that had just been equipped, to open the beach by the sea, and shoot at the Allied army, whose courage is extremely commendable! But unfortunately, after only one round of shells, the giant guns on the Allied 30,000-ton battleships bombed these new tanks directly back to the part state.

There is a record in the "Zuo Biography": At noon on June 6, 581 B.C., on this day, the princess of Jin Jing was about to taste new wheat, and suddenly felt that her stomach was swollen, so she went to the toilet to poop, and accidentally fell into the dung pit and died. Mr. Ji Ru is likely to be the first person in history to die in the toilet in written records, which is enough to make him famous in history and passed down through the ages.

When introducing the origin of the word "humor", many ** said that Mr. Lin Yutang first introduced the word "humor" to China in 1924. In this regard, Mr. Zhang Jiping, a member of the China Regional Culture Research Association and a director of the Shandong Folk Literature and Art Association, believes that this statement is not accurate. He introduced that the first person to translate the word humour into Chinese and introduce it to China should be Wang Guowei, a master of Chinese studies, 18 years before Lin Yutang first used the "humor" translation method.

In 1906, Wang Guowei published the book "The Spirit of Quzi Literature", in which he discussed humour and transliterated it as "Oumuya", believing that "Oumuya" is a contemplative attitude towards life, but did not discuss it. In 1924, Lin Yutang wrote a series of articles in the "Morning Post", explaining that "humor" was the Chinese translation of humour. Mr. Zhang Jiping believes that in a strict sense, the first person to translate Chinese from humour should be Wang Guowei, which has been more than 100 years ago.

Zhang Jiping introduced that Lin Yutang translated humour as "humor", and many cultural celebrities at the time also disagreed. Lu Xun once thought that it was easy to be misunderstood as "silent" or "quiet". Li Qingya advocates translating it as "wonderful language", but "wonderful language" is an idiom, which has the meaning of "just talking but not doing", which is not appropriate.

Chen Wangdao intended to translate it as "slippery", but he felt that it was not precise enough and was suspected of frivolity. Later, Tang Xuhou translated it as "harmonious Mu", believing that one "harmonious" and one "Mu" constituted the whole of "humor". During the controversy, the word "humor" has become widely popular, and its meaning is recognized by the world, and it has been used to this day, and has been voted the most expressive foreign word translated in the 20th century.

Humor is a translation of the English word humor, which in turn is derived from Latin. And another explanation is"Humor"The term first appeared in Qu Yuan's "Nine Chapters of Huaisha"."Warm and quiet, Kong Jing is humorous", however, the paraphrase here is quiet.

A joke refers to a kind of story or speech that is funny or funny.

Jokes are a popular form of entertainment that can be expressed in various forms such as language, writing, **, film and television. Jokes usually have a certain structure, including elements such as setting, plot, twist, suspense, and ending, to achieve the effect of making people laugh. Not only do good jokes make people laugh, but they also help relieve stress, regulate emotions, shorten interpersonal distance, and more.

At the same time, jokes are also a way of cultural inheritance, including life, history, folklore and other rich cultural connotations.

In addition, because different regions and cultural backgrounds have different aesthetic and humorous preferences, jokes vary from place to place around the world. In China, many folk jokes also include homophony, folk tales, afterwords and other elements, and there are many classic representative works, such as "Jumping River", "Shi Gong Case", etc., which are approachable and educational. Overall, jokes are a popular and enjoyable culture around the world, and an important way to build friendships.