Carries, the people may see diverse is complex, the colorvariegated beggar picture to, on to the king, the writer talentedperson, gets down up to the common people, the swindler bandits andthieves, all may
Begs in these in the picture found, cannot help but makespeople think deeply.
The beggar in our country antiquity writing, most early is appears bythe tone word. "Begs" in the golden writing meaning is the desire,requested that, simultaneously may use for the counter- righteousness,refers gives
Gives. "The beggar" makes "the sentence" (the gai beggar),makes the sacrificial offering in the animal bones and tortoise shellsoracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty to use the word, thedirectional God desire, if "honors the rain, the sentence to theriver", namely the rain greatly causes disaster, seeks strength to theriver
God. The beggar also may do gives righteousness, if "the HanHistory Western region Hands down" records: "And carries the meatdishes grain to the road, the beggar executes (bestowment to give) thepoor." The beggar two characters syntheses are a word use,
Is starts from the Han Dynasty, moreover its original meaningstill retained begged and gives these two meanings. Therefore beforeSong Dynasty, the beggar two characters not yet use for to call askfor the food the person.
Then, before Song Dynasty, how to begs for food the person is calls?According to "Mencius", "Lushih Chunchiu", "Liezi", "HistoricalRecords of the Eastern Han dynasty", "Cassiabarktree Park Collectionof essays or books" and so on secretary
Carries, has "乞人", "the beggar", "the beggar person","begs the rope" and so on the name. These names later still willcontinue in Song Dynasty to use, mostly continuously continued the endof the Qing.
"The beggar" a word uses for to call begs for food the person isstarts from Song Dynasty, like "Peaceful Broadly Records" centerdirects "Wang What one sees and hears" a speech, beggar and Ma Yi,liquor
Guarantees, the commission makes and class of the slave traderplaces on a par. Also like "the Chuhsi Language Class" center alsorecorded as a result of the commodity economy development, in themarket to the paper money has replaced the coined money to circulateit at that time
After, some people morning or the rich merchant, eveningbecame has not had a thing in the world begs for food the beggar.