Why can you also say untie your hands when you go to the toilet?

The term "untieshandedness" comes from the great migration of northern China during the Ming Dynasty. So far, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hebei, Henan, Shandong and other places generally follow this saying. Since the government of the Ming Dynasty was forced to emigrate when they immigrated, the officers and soldiers tied them up and went on the road in order to prevent the immigrants from escaping.

Tying two arms is called a big tie, and tying one arm is called a small tie. Not only that, but they were afraid that they would escape with the tie-up, and the bound people had to be tied together with ropes before they were escorted on the road. Many people are connected together, they want to move, they want to stop, one person wants to move, there are many involved, and no one can escape.

For the officers and soldiers who escorted them, it was naturally troublesome, but it was painful for the bound immigrants. The most troublesome thing is to urinate and defecate. In order to make the meaning clear, the words are very long, for example, if a person wants to poop or urinate, he must first report and say:

Report to my lord, please stop everyone, untie my hands, I want to urinate. "There are many people, and there are many times to untie the rope on the road, and the officers and soldiers also feel troublesome, but this method cannot be changed.

The listener can understand it too. It wasn't until later that it settled down that this expression became a common term and became synonymous with urine.

However, until now, there is still a saying about untying the big hands and untying the small hands, which means poop and urine, and it is unknown where this comes from.

According to legend, Zhu Yuanzhang's son King Yan passed through Hebei because of the struggle for the throne, and the local people obstructed it in every way, and King Yan was furious and ordered to kill all the local people. Later, after becoming the emperor, he moved the people of Shanxi to the area of Hebei where the people were killed, because the people of Shanxi were reluctant to be escorted to Hebei with ropes. So later, I said that I was used to going to the toilet and directly said that it was a relief!

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, due to successive wars and natural and man-made disasters, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, and Anhui suffered greatly, and almost became a no-man's land. During the war in the Central Plains, the Mongolian landlords armed the "mountains and rivers in the surface" ruled by the father and son of Chakhan Timur - Shanxi, but it was a different scene, relatively stable, the wind and rain were smooth, the harvest was bumper year after year, and the four realms were quiet. Compared with the neighboring provinces, Shanxi has a prosperous economy and a thriving population.

In addition, a large number of refugees from other provinces have also flowed into Shanxi, making Shanxi a densely populated area. Hongdong and other places are fertile and watery, and the population is particularly dense. In order to consolidate the new political power and develop the economy, the Ming Dynasty moved a large number of people from Shanxi to other places.

From the early years of Hongwu to the fifteenth year of Yongle, eighteen large-scale resettlement activities were organized in more than 50 years. In the process of escorting the immigrants, in order to prevent the immigrants from escaping, they used ropes to tie people's hands together and wear long strings.

The more often it happens, this kind of verbal request tends to be simplified, and as long as you say, "Master, I'll relieve you," you can understand that you want to urinate. Since then, "untie" has become synonymous with urine.