Friends who love to watch costume dramas know that whenever the main character in a TV drama finds an inn to eat or stay, the shopkeeper shouts out at the door, "Sir, please come inside. After that, the main character may ask, "Do you have any good food or wine"? Or "Do you have a good room?" . So how did the name "store assistant" come about?

What is commonly believed today is that in ancient times, the poor people could not afford to go to school, and almost all of them did not know the words. Only some rich people know words, these poor people do not even have a name . They generally use the line generation or the age of the parents to calculate a number as a name. It's very convenient for everyone to call.

We often hear Zhang San, Li Si, etc., is not without a source, their source is the ancient bottom working people. The waiters in the hotel are almost always some of the poor people from the poor. We also have no name to call, the shopkeeper is considered the boss, of course, they are considered "small two". With the people so called, slowly store Xiao Er has become the ancient waiter's name which is also deserved.

At first it wasn't called Xiao Er, but people's long-term living habits and the continuation of the way of speaking make slowly let everyone think that the waiter is called store Xiao Er . From the Song Dynasty began to popularize such a call, so we watch the TV series are basically called store Xiao Er.