heavy taxation

heavy taxation

Touhuijilian, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is t ó UKU à ij à Li à n, which means heavy taxes. From Huainanzi · pan Lun Xun.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: touhuijifu

Idiom usage

It refers to those who have heavy taxes and who have learned how to make friends. Preface to Ode to the south of the Yangtze River by Yu Xin in the Northern Zhou Dynasty

The origin of Idioms

"Huainanzi · pan Lun Xun" said: "touhuiji Fu, lost to Shaofu." According to the biography of Zhang Er and Chen Yu in historical records, "the head will be collected for military expenditure."

Idiom story

In other words, capitation tax is levied according to the capitation, which is used as military expenditure or royal expenditure. There are two theories about what to pay taxes on, or what to collect. (1) Money said. According to the bamboo slips of Qin tombs, the Qin Dynasty had the habit of storing money with a dustpan. "Those who receive money from the government will receive a thousand dollars in one pot, and will be sealed by Cheng and order It's the use of offering money to Fengcheng and Ling "(bamboo slips of Qin tomb in Shuihudi, p. 55). Dustpan, a kind of container made of cattail, etc. Dustpan is similar to dustpan. (2) Food said. According to the Hanshu, Fu Qian notes: "when an official comes to his home, everyone counts his head out of the valley and collects it with a dustpan." That is to say, the officials went to the people's houses and counted the number of people on the spot. They came out of the valley according to their heads and used dustpan to control. In the reform of Shang Yang, Qin Dynasty had the system of levying head tax.