What is the meaning of parents?

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Old addresses of state and county officials. There are also people who call themselves "parents"

Exodus: Why rely on its capital, falsely claiming that the sage made the monarch, and the Yuan people lost their parents. -Gao Mingqi's "Shubo Chicken"

Note: the meaning of "parents" here is different from that of parents now.

"Parents" is a title of respect for state and county officials in ancient China. How did this name come from? ?

According to Hanshu, in the first year of the Western Han Dynasty, Wan county magistrate was born in Shouchun, Jiujiang. "He treats the people like children", and advises them to go to farming and mulberry, return to their roots in the end, be diligent in political affairs and have a plan, "benefit the people" and try their best to make the people rich. He personally guides farming, often goes in and out of the fields, lives in other people's homes and has little leisure time. "When the people return, the household registration will be doubled and the prison proceedings of thieves will stop." "Close friends of the government and the people" and respect him as "calling his father". ?

Coincidentally, less than one hundred years later, in the seventh year of Liu Xiu's Jianwu in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 3 1), the people of Wanxian County were fortunate to meet the new magistrate Du Shi. According to "The Biography of Du Shi in the Later Han Dynasty", Du Shi's words are only sparse and shallow. When he was the county magistrate Cao, he loved the people like a son and made decisions for the people, so the people of the county were well-fed and well-fed. The people compared him with the former messenger, saying that "there was a father before, and a mother after." Since then, the title of "official" has been widely circulated in later generations.

The origin of "parents"

Tanghe county City, 35km south of the city, has the site of "Zhao Fuqu". According to Records of Ming Jiajing Nanyang County, Zhao Xin, the magistrate of Nanyang, opened Zhaofu Canal in Huyang Town, 70 miles south of tanghe county. According to Hanshu, when Emperor Yuan of the Western Han Dynasty was called Wan Taishou, he cared about people's sufferings, built water conservancy projects, built dams and canals, and irrigated fertile fields, making counties "full of fertile fields". He also banned weddings, funerals and severely punished corrupt officials, so the politics was peaceful, and the people and officials all loved him and addressed him as "Hufu". According to the Records of the Later Han Dynasty, Du Fu, the satrap of Nanyang County in the Eastern Han Dynasty, used tricks to severely punish lawlessness, reduce taxes, build water conservancy projects, dredge old canals and invent "water rafts". At that time, Nanyang people compared him to Zhao Xinchen, saying that "before there is a father, after there is a mother", and the word "parents" came from this.

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Parents' names

Pinyin fǔ Wen ǔ gu ā n

Explain that local officials called parents in feudal times.

The source is Qi's "Shubo Chicken Story": "Why rely on its capital, pretend to be a gentleman, Yuan people lost their parents."

Anyway, he always ~! ★ Act III of Lao She's "Divine Boxing"