What does salted fish mean in network language?

Salted fish is a common name in Cantonese. In ancient times, it was a metaphor for dead bodies, and later it was used to describe people who didn't do anything and didn't want to move. Now the salted fish in network language probably means the same thing. The metaphor is "a person without dreams" or the metaphor of online games is "not spending or spending little energy and time to participate in activities to improve their players".

The line in Stephen Chow's movie shaolin soccer: "If you don't have a dream, what's the difference between it and salted fish?" (The original Cantonese text is: "What's the difference between a dreamer and a salted fish?" If a person has no dreams, he is no different from a dead person.

Extended data:

A useless man got a chance to start over.

Salted fish turning over now is more like a person in trouble, or a person in a bad economic situation, suddenly turning over or getting better. Extension means bringing the dead back to life, whether it is extremely Thai or not. The pronunciation of salted fish in Cantonese is different from that of saang and sun, but in order to meet the needs of the mainland, Hong Kong movies are all replaced by salted fish.

Now it refers to: when a person is in the depression stage, he suddenly meets some unexpected opportunities and turns around or improves, which is compared to turning over. Generally, when salted fish is used to describe people, it is derogatory and ironic. Salted fish can't "turn over" originally, but saying that salted fish turns over means that it has come back to life, which means that the situation has changed from bad to good in a short time.

When we use this idiom, what we want to express is that something that has given up hope has suddenly taken a major turn and developed in the direction of expectation.

If we understand "salted fish turning over" as a spelling mistake of "salted fish coming back to life", it makes sense literally. It is both a surprise and a good thing that a dead fish can survive after being salted.

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