Zhang San, Li Si Wang Mazi , why is the surname Wang called Mazi ? Where did it come from?

Because at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a businessman surnamed Wang with pockmarks on his face was too famous, and the scissors he made sold well in most of China, and his descendants also named the scissors signboard "Wang Mazi", which led to people meeting people surnamed Wang, and they remembered Wang Mazi, and Wang Mazi was handed down in this way.

Wang Mazi In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, there was a businessman surnamed Wang who did business in Beijing, and people called him Wang Shopkeeper. This person is from Shanxi, and he is good at everything, but he has a shortcoming, and he has a pockmarked face. He later married a woman from Qingzhou, Shandong, speaking of this woman is not simple, this woman's name is Tian Qing, her father Tian Laowan is a famous local blacksmith in Shandong, Tian Laowan has only this one daughter in his life, so he passed on the craft to Tian Qing early.

After Tian Qing married Wang Mazi, the two discussed starting an ironware business, that is, striking iron by themselves, and then selling the finished knives and scissors in the store.

The business is very good, because Tian Qing's iron-striking skills are very good, and the knives and scissors in the shop are of good quality, durable and sharp, and gradually become famous in the local area. Later, more and more people came to buy the knives and scissors in her store, and their business has been booming. After the death of the couple, their descendants inherited their craftsmanship and business, in order to adapt to the social economy, but also gave their own knives cut a "Wang Mazi" signboard, and the business is very good, knives and scissors are sold all over the country.

There are two more well-known brands in the scissors industry, one is Zhang Xiaoquan in the south.

The other is Wang Mazi in the north.

As a result, because the brand of Wang Mazi is too famous, people from all over the country know it, so later people met people with the surname Wang, and they remembered the signboard of Wang Mazi, and the person surnamed Wang also lay down the gun, regardless of whether there was pockmarks on the face, people would think of Wang Mazi when they met. In fact, Wang Mazi's brand is so cowhide, it should be regarded as the pride of the people surnamed Wang, but the brand name is a bit vulgar, but the vulgar also has the benefits of vulgarity, and the vulgar can be close to the lives of ordinary people and be grounded.

Because the kitchen knife made by the knifesmith surnamed Wang is very famous, his brand is Wang Mazi, and people are used to calling the surname Wang Mazi. Because the king swordsmith has pockmarks on his face, he is called Wang Mazi.

Because in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, there was a merchant surnamed Wang whose face was covered with pockmarks, and the scissors he made swept the whole country, and he became famous as a whole person, so later generations thought of him when they mentioned the surname Wang.

Because in ancient times, there was a very famous merchant, he was surnamed "Wang", and his face was covered with pockmarks. Therefore, later generations remembered him when they mentioned the surname "Wang", so they affectionately called Wang Mazi.

Because in the Ming Dynasty, there was a merchant surnamed Wang who had a pockmark on his face, and the scissors made by the merchant were very famous, and later generations named his scissors signboard Wang Mazi, which caused people to think of Wang Mazi when they met people surnamed Wang.

Because in ancient times, smallpox was a very epidemic infectious disease with a high case fatality rate, after being infected with smallpox, even if it was cured, it would leave pockmarks on the face, which is the origin of Wang Er's pockmarks, to indicate that there are many people with pockmarks on their faces.

1. The origin of Zhang San and Li Si:

Song Wang Anshi's poem "Picking Up the Cold Mountain": "Zhang San's trousers are narrow, and Li Si's hat is long. ”

Zhang San, Li Si, Wang Wu, Zhao Liu" was the first to say that there were 18 families with four surnames in Hangzhou. Hangzhou has served as the capital of the five dynasties of Wu Yue and the Southern Song Dynasty. It once became the political, economic, and cultural center of the country, and the city prospered and the population came from all directions.

Since then, it has experienced wars and changes, and the population has moved frequently. According to legend, the Hangzhou people only left 18 families to be the real Hangzhou people, that is, the so-called "Zhang San, Li Si, Wang Wu, Zhao Liu", a total of 18 families with four surnames. There is also a proverb that says:

Hangzhou radish Shaoxing species", which means that most of the people in Hangzhou are immigrants from Shaoxing.

2. The origin of Wang Ermazi:

From the idiom "there are no silver three hundred taels here". The last sentence is that there are no silver three hundred taels here, and the next sentence is that Wang Er next door has not stolen, and Wang Er's pockmarks are derived from the "Wang Er" in it.

There is a family surnamed Zhang who is the third in the family, a family surnamed Li is the fourth, and a pockmarked face surnamed Wang is the second in the family.

Your business in the world, my business, and Zhang San, Li Siwang, and Ermazi's business.

In fact, the surname Wang is quite depressed, and the surname Zhang is calledZhang San, the surname Li is calledLi Si, why is the surname Wang called Wang Mazi? Could it be that the face of the surnamed Wang is pockmarked? This can offend all the people surnamed kings in the world, you know:

Now there are more than 100 million people in China with the surname Wang.

In fact, Wang Mazi also talked about orangesWang V, including those with the surname Zhao, calledZhao Liu, which adds up to:Zhang San, Li Si, Wang Wu, Zhao Liu, a total of 18. Speaking of these 18, there is a legendary story.

It is said that at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan soldiers invaded Lin'an (now Hangzhou), the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, and burned and killed all the residents of Lin'an, and the corpses were all over the field.

At this time, the Yuan soldiers climbed Wushan to lookout, the original prosperous, brilliant lights of Lin'an City was a mess, dead and silent, except for the 18 chimneys around are still smoking, there is no life.

I don't know if it was because the Yuan soldiers had good intentions, or if it didn't do them much good after killing, they kept the last 18 families. These 18 are what the old Hangzhou people say, "Zhang San, Li Si, Wang Wu, Zhao Liu", just 18.

The question is: How did this Wang Wu become Wang Mazi later?

Time came to the end of the Ming Dynasty, and there was an old blacksmith in Qingzhou, Shandong, calledTian Laowan, the blacksmithing skill is very superb, he has no children under his knees, so he passed on the craft to his only daughterTian Qing

Tian Qing later came to Beijing and married a Shanxi merchant (Jin Shang) who was doing business in Beijing. This businessman's surname is Wang, his face is full of pockmarks, people at first called him Wang Shopkeeper, and later after combining with Tian Qing, he started an ironware business (mainly rolling Wu Bump is knives and scissors), and people began to call him Wang Mazi.

Unexpectedly, the knives and scissors of Wang Mazi's blacksmith shop became famous, and the business became booming, becoming a signboard, so after Wang Mazi's death, his descendants officially used "Wang Mazi Da Tanzi" as the signboard of their family knives and scissors, and marked the knives and scissors, and Wang Mazi's signboard spread throughout the country.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the brand of Wang Mazi has become a time-honored brand in China for more than 300 years''There is Zhang Xiaoquan in the south and Wang Mazi in the north''That is, the scissors overlord in the north is Wang Mazi.

I don't know if it's for this reason, Wang Mazi is called like this, even those who don't have pockmarks on their faces are called Wang Mazi. Just like Zhang San and Li Si, it is no longer a specific person, but a general term for some people.

Hey, why is the one surnamed Wang lying on the gun? Because the pen man is also surnamed Wang.

Not only Wang Mazi, but also the surname Wang has a particularly bad title, that is"The old king next door".What can I say about this? Let it be.