Bragging has the meaning of boasting and saying big things, do you know its earliest meaning?

"Bragging" is the earliest northwest dialect, in the early days of the northwest rivers were turbulent and difficult to navigate, the local people used cowhide to blow into air bags to make rafts, as a tool to cross the river.

Know. The earliest refers to the crossing of a river. It has nothing to do with pompousness. Later, the original meaning was changed.

The word bragging was originally spoken in the Northwest dialect, so I think it originally meant to talk about homely things.

Bragging, also known as bragging, blowing conch, refers to lying or speaking without facts, exaggeration or exaggeration. Generally, bragging is to describe people who have no strength and like to pretend that they are very powerful, and no one wants to communicate with such people. Volume XI:

Weng Shuping visited the crane twice, and Wu Qingqing blindly bragged.

Bragging example sentences: 1. Du Pengcheng's "Defending Yan'an".

Chapter 2: It's a bunch of braggart villains.

2, Ba Jin, "Do You Want to Formulate a "Literary and Art Law"": Gang of Four.

Boasting for a whole decade has blown China's national economy to the brink of collapse, is it that the author can't see it, he doesn't understand.

<>1. In the past, after killing pigs and sheep and letting out blood, the butcher would cut a small opening on its legs, and blow hard into it until its whole body swelled up, and with a gentle pull with a knife, the skin would crack by itself, which was called blowing pigs or blowing sheep.

2. If anyone says that they can blow up the steak skin, then the spring stool is a big deal. Because the cowhide is so large and so tough that it can't be blown at all. So "bragging" has become synonymous with big talk.

1. It is related to the life of nomads. Nomads live on water and grass, and their most important property is cattle and horses. Therefore, when people get together, they always like to talk about their cattle and horses, and it is inevitable that there is an element of exaggeration.

As time went by, the word "bragging" spread, and it had the meaning of saying big things.

2. People call talking big things bragging. The saying of bragging, ** in Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningbo and Inner Mongolia. In the past, people in these places crossed the river, relying on leather rafts, which were made of sheepskin and cowhide, and when they used it, they blew air into it, tied their mouths, and used them as tools for crossing the river, and connected the small rafts together, which could become large rafts, and the large rafts were connected together, which could carry thousands of pounds of heavy objects across the river.

The so-called bragging is to blow air into a raft.

This is because people living in ethnic minorities at that time would balance their wealth by the number of cattle and sheep, so there is the saying "bragging". This statement comes from the nomadic people of ancient China.

This has been around since ancient times, when there were people who told stories about lying as bragging.