With evidence of classics and dialect data, this study argues from the perspectives of sound and meaning that the verb chuan-zhuo 'to put on' in modern Min Chinese comes from the old Chinese verb shang. Shang has very complicated morphological derivations and some of these derivations remain in Min Chinese. The mutual verifications between the two dialects demonstrate old Chinese's traces in Min Chinese. Shang's meaning "to put on" originates from its usage "to add," which turns into the meaning "to put on clothes." This kind of semantic development can be proved by parallel examples, e.g. the Chinese words fu and zhuo.