Anti-Japanese slogan in southern Fujian

The word "smelly" in Minnan dialect is definitely not a good word. For example, Minnan people often call "people who are dishonest, disloyal and lack of public morality" "smelly people", those who create or hurt others and benefit others as "smelly hearts" and those who are cruel to others as "smelly faces"; In addition, lalitou is called "smelly head", and feet with sores and ringworm are called "smelly feet" and "smelly feet and smelly hooves".

"Smelly head" This is a kind of "dysentery syndrome" of the head. In southern Fujian, some children have dysentery since their childhood for some reasons, so they have been nicknamed "smelly head" and "smelly head boy" since childhood, and this nickname has been with them all their lives. In addition, smelly heads are often used in combination with rotten ears, which means that a person looks bad and looks bad. In addition, there are expressions such as "Odor-headed Udine". In fact, in the special language environment of southern Fujian, the word "smelly Wu Ding" is not necessarily derogatory. Popular expressions in southern Fujian, such as "Smelly head floods Wu Jun" and "Smelly head Wu Ding will become emperor", sometimes mean that people can't look at them aimlessly or simply judge them by their appearance! Regarding the word stinky head, there is also a popular anti-Japanese nursery rhyme called "smelly head stinks" in Zhangzhou, southern Fujian. The content is: smelly head stinks, call the police first when the opportunity comes. Police cars, beeping, smelly soldiers ran away with their tails between their legs. Smelly heads stink everywhere, and the guns don't ring when the Japanese plane comes. The red army marched north, and stinky head withdrew from the war. Smelly head and flowers, the Japanese machine went to blow wax gourd, betrayed China to the Japanese, and arrested the people to the traitors. In this nursery rhyme, the word "smelly head" has become a kind of meaning, referring to the reactionary army that bought off the country and betrayed the people for glory.

The word "smelly" in Minnan dialect has another meaning besides bad or annoying-it is called "smelly" but not smelly. Minnan people often call their beloved children "smelly", that is, pick a word from the name and add the word "smelly". For example, a person named Zhiyong is called "smelly Yong" or "smelly wisdom", while a person named Ahai is called "smelly sea". In southern Fujian, outsiders call children "smelly" or something, and their parents don't mind; In fact, his parents and family called him "smelly", but "smelly" began with the address of his parents. The word "smelly" means love and intimacy.

Do you have any adult names with "smelly"? There are also. Maybe I've been used to it since I was a child, and I can't change it. However, some people have been called "smelly" since childhood. That's the name of familiar friends, good classmates and workmates who have been together for many years, and there is obviously a sense of intimacy. Some names with "smelly" are more or less in line with the personality of the called party, such as naughty, lazy, shameless and glib, which is even more called "smelly". Calling "smelly" only applies to people under the same age.

The "stink" in Minnan dialect also means disgust or disdain. For example, saying that someone's speech is too "smelly", or that everything someone says is "smelly", means that that person is bored by repeating the old words countless times. After talking about the word "smelly" in Minnan dialect, let's talk about the words "Miao" and "ou" in Minnan dialect. Listener friends,

The words "chopsticks" and "ou" are clearly defined in Xinhua Dictionary. Chopsticks and ou are small cups. But in Mandarin nowadays, people are already "chopsticks" and "cups" in spoken English, and only Minnan people still keep the words "chopsticks" and "ou".

Language and culture always influence and permeate each other. The ancients sat on the floor, grabbing food with their hands and cutting meat with knives and forks. Book of rites Qu Lishang: "* * * Don't rub your hands with rice." Confucius said, "You don't have to eat with your hands." With the development of society, people's living habits have changed, and they gradually began to use chopsticks. Guangyun and Zheng Yun recorded that "chopsticks" are "spoons and chopsticks for eating". Southern Dynasties and Song Dynasty. Liu Yiqing's Shi Shuo Xin Yu. Angry: "Wang Lantian is impatient. He eats eggs and pokes them with a stick. If he can't do it, he will get angry and throw them on the ground. " Don. Han Yu's "Shunzong Erji" records: "After a long time, Prime Ministers Du You, Gao Ying and Wang Xunyu all stopped waiting." Until the Ming Dynasty, Cheng Liang also wrote the song "Chanting Bamboo Slips": "Ask bamboo slips with hospitality, taste them first, taste others, and come and go when you are free." Later, because of the homophonic sound of "chopsticks" and "live", people taboo "stopping boats", especially the fishermen in the south of the Yangtze River, so they called "chopsticks" clippers, and "chopsticks" were handed down from generation to generation. However, as a living fossil of ancient Chinese, "Zhu" still remains in Minnan dialect, even in the whole Fujian dialect area.

"Ou" refers to cups and small bowls in ancient times. Jade. Wabu: "Oh, the bowl is small." Can also be used as a quantifier. For example, South Tang. Li Yu's "Fisherman" words: "Flowers are full of Zhu, wine is full of Ou." Nanqi book. Xie Chaozong said, "Sit in Zong Zheng and have a few drinks." Song. Shao Yong's Singing in a Comfortable Nest: "When there is wine, there is always a breath. What do you want after 70 years? " Yuan. Kang's "Li Kui jy Negative Surprise" is even discounted first: "I will wait for two or three cups." Nowadays, the word "ou" is widely used in Minnan dialect. It is used as nouns, such as "tea ou", "wine ou", "rice ou" and "ao ou" (referring to a teacup with a lid), and also as quantifiers, such as a cup of tea and a bowl of rice.