Wife, husband's address to his wife, also refers to a woman who lives with her husband forever. The original meaning refers to elderly women. Different people have different names for their wives. For example, the ancient emperor called his wife Zitong and the prime minister called his wife Madame.

Later, there was a sentence in Wang Jinqing's poem: "A wife is impatient and often counsels", which means that a "wife" always has to take care of the housework. So, I later called my wife "wife". There are also songs and movies of the same name.

Appellations such as husband and wife all contain the desire of "caring for each other and loving each other for a long time". In China, husband and wife often call each other "husband" and "wife". How did this happen? According to legend, this title first appeared in the Tang Dynasty, and it has been 1000 years.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a scholar named Mai. After he was admitted to fame, he felt that his wife was old and faded, and he had the idea of abandoning her and finding another lover.

So, I wrote a pair of couplets and put them on my desk: "When the lotus declines, the fallen leaves belong to the old lotus root." It happened that the couplet was seen by his wife. The wife noticed from the couplets that her husband had the idea of abandoning the old and welcoming the new, so she began to write a pair of couplets: "When the grains in Huangdao are ripe, the rice shows a new valley.

Not only is it very neat and appropriate, novel and popular, but it is also interesting and tit for tat. Mai Aixin read his wife's second couplet and was moved by her agile thinking and love, so she gave up the idea of abandoning the old and welcoming the new.

When the wife saw her husband change his mind, she did not forget the old feelings, but wrote, "My husband is very fair." Mai Aixin continued to write a couplet: "My wife is a woman." This educational story soon spread and became a story from generation to generation. Since then, the words "husband" and "wife" have appeared in Chinese, and there is also the custom of husband and wife calling each other "husband" and "wife".

It has been said before that the appellation of "husband" and "wife" was popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan before it was introduced to the mainland. In fact, the names of husband and wife have existed in Chinese mainland since ancient times. There is a saying in the Water Margin that a husband is a husband.