give oneself away(lòu mǎ jiǎo)

give oneself away

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"Barefoot" means showing flaws and exposing the truth. The word "Lu Ma Jiao" appeared in Tang Dynasty. It was originally a kind of game in ancient times. At the time of festival celebrations, the unicorn skins are decorated on donkeys or horses to celebrate. However, it is difficult to cover up the horse's feet or donkey's feet. It is hard to show the horse's feet or donkey's feet when playing with them. This is the origin of the theory of "exposing the horse's feet".

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Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, had a poor family since he was a child. When he was a child, he was sent to a temple to be a monk. When he was an adult, he married Ma, a farmer. women in that era all wanted to wrap their feet, but Ma Xiuying was deeply loved by her parents when she was a child. She insisted on not binding her feet. She grew a pair of natural feet and gave birth to a pair of big feet. After her marriage, Ma Xiuying had deep feelings with Zhu Yuanzhang, who made her the first empress of the Ming Dynasty. When Ma became Queen, he lived in the palace and enjoyed the splendor, but he felt helpless about his big feet. Whenever he met with guests, he always covered his feet with the hem or skirt of his clothes. once, Ma took a sedan chair to visit the streets of Jinling (now Nanjing). Suddenly, a strong wind blew up and lifted a corner of the car curtain. Ma's two big feet on the pedal were exposed in broad daylight. She quickly retracted her feet, but people had already seen them clearly! As a result, the news spread and caused a sensation in the whole capital. Because it was ma who showed his feet, the word "Lu Ma Jiao" has spread to today. So now, the exposure of dishonorable things that are inconvenient to make public is called "Lu Ma Jiao". However, this view is denied in the article "a textual research on" exposing horse's feet ":" this old man is not easy to be provoked in the unknown Yuanqu "Chen Zhou's selling rice". If he cuts it first, he will smell it later. In this way, he is afraid that we will expose horse's feet. " We can even find the word "Lu Lu Lu Jiao" in Song Dynasty. Volume 20 of xuchuandenglu of the Northern Song Dynasty: "later, when the wind flag happened, the meaning of the mat was obvious, the fingered Buddha was hard to hide, and the donkey's feet were exposed." These are two pieces of convincing documentary evidence. It can be concluded that the term "barefoot" does not originate from Queen Ma, but has its own origin. In Lu Xun's article, there is a saying "show the horse's feet under the skin of unicorn". It seems that Mr. Lu understands its source. In fact, "barefoot" is related to the ancient game of using horses (or donkeys) to disguise as unicorns. Qilin, together with dragon, Phoenix and tortoise, is called "four spirits", which is the auspicious animal and benevolent animal in the eyes of the ancients. In ancient festivals and sacrifices, there was often an activity: putting painted and dressed Unicorn skin on horses (donkeys) to play games. Naturally, it is difficult to wrap the foot of the horse tightly, but once it is not tightly wrapped, the truth will be revealed. This activity existed in the Tang Dynasty, but most of them were dressed as donkeys. The ninth volume of Fengzhi's Yunxian Zaji in the Tang Dynasty quoted Zhang's chaoyejinzai: "Yang Jiong of the Tang Dynasty every time he called the scholars to be Qilin last, or asked them, saying:" if you fake Qilin today, you must decorate its shape and cover it on the donkey like a foreign body. If you peel it, it's still the donkey's ear. Why is it different to lose the purple without virtue? " Last, shoe plant head, wooden model stuffed in the shoe, here refers to the donkey wrapped in Kirin skin, instead of the superficial one. In Song Dynasty, unicorn was often dressed as horse. Huang Tingjian's poem "reading a recent newspaper with Editor Liu Qianfu and Jiang Xian being expelled" says: "the last of the unicorn shines in the valley, and our generation's galloping horse sings." (others only boast about their appearance and literary talent, but our generation just make unremitting efforts like horses. ）The word "barefoot" should come from this. That's why it's also said that barefoot comes from this kind of game.

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