Rural Folk Proverbs Rural Sayings

1. Put reason into things and use good steel to the blade.

2. You can travel all over the world with reason, but you can’t move even without reason.

3. A tree can fall down if it is chopped with an ax, but it will not fall if it is justified.

4. Being ambitious does not depend on your age, and being reasonable does not depend on your ability to speak.

5. Eat rice and talk rationally.

6. Those who eat people are soft-spoken and their opinions are short-sighted.

7. Eat with flavor and speak with reason.

8. He can walk without making a difference, and he can talk without making sense.

9. The tongue is made of flesh, the fact is ironclad.

10. If the light is not on, ask someone to turn it on; if something is unclear, ask someone to explain it.

11. Conquer the population with force and convince people with reason.

12. Give people an inch and gain a foot of reasoning.

13. Speak the truth when you have reason, and speak nonsense when you have no reason.

14. Think about what is reasonable and say it quickly, but rush to say what is unreasonable.

15. A person who is right is not afraid of pressure, and a person who is upright is not afraid of a distorted shadow.

16. When you are right, you don’t have to talk too high, but when you have something to say in front of you.

17. Don’t throw away the rationale and don’t argue with the unreasonable.

18. Win with reason and lose without reason.

19. If the light is not turned on, it will not turn on, and the reason will not be clear.

20. Good people argue and bad people argue.

21. Good tea should not be tasted carefully, and good deeds should not be discussed in detail.

22. Good wine is not afraid of brewing, and good people are not afraid of speaking.

23. There is an endless road to walk and endless principles to know.

24. Afraid of heavy rain when walking, afraid of being criticized when talking.

25. The mouth of the altar can be sealed, but the population cannot.

26. Don’t sleep in the alley, as it is the most poisonous thing to do.

27. Go to bed without lighting a lamp, and get up early without feeling dizzy.

28. If you want to sleep easily, do not turn your feet to the west or your head to the east.

29. One look is worth less than a thousand lessons, and one practice is worth less than a thousand looks.

30. If you live on a slope for a long time, it is never too steep.

31. Horses look at their teeth, but people look at their words and deeds.

32. If you don’t experience the cold of winter, you won’t know the warmth of spring.

33. If you don’t take the burden, you don’t know the weight; if you don’t take the long road, you don’t know the distance.

34. If you don’t sleep in the quilt, you don’t know how wide the quilt is.

35. One thing is clear and all things are harmonious.

36. People are afraid of being ignored, and dogs are afraid of having their tails pinched.

37. People are afraid of reason, and horses are afraid of whips.

38. People have their own reasons, and horses have their reins.

39. More people will produce righteousness, and more grain will produce good rice.

40. It doesn’t matter whether people are close to each other, but whether they are straightened out or not.

41. As long as there are no clouds in the sky and no rain, nothing will happen in the world.

42. All bows in the world are curved, but all principles in the world are straight.

43. There are no two days in the sky, and there are no two principles in people.

44. The more the well is dug, the clearer the water becomes; the more things are laid out, the clearer the reason becomes.

45. Be panicked without reason, but be courageous with reason.

46. The ox is unable to drag the rake, and the man speaks unreasonably.

47. If you don’t recognize people, you won’t be afraid of anything.

48. Recognize reason but not people, help managers but not relatives. The water is too big to cover the boat, and the hand is too big to cover the sky.

49. The clouds go south and fill the pond, the clouds go east and fill the pit, and the clouds go north.

50. Ants moving snakes across the aisle, there will be heavy rain tomorrow.

51. The sunset is carmine red, there is wind even if there is no rain.

52. Maigai sleeps with three quilts and steamed buns on his head.

53. It’s hard to buy money when there is drought in May and enough food in June when there is continuous cloudy weather.

54. There are a lot of rice seedlings during the summer solstice.

55. You can grow radish and vegetables in the first three days, and you can also grow buckwheat in the third three days.

56. Don’t panic when planting wheat from cold dew to frost. Don’t relax when planting wheat from frost to Beginning of Winter. Planting wheat will be delayed from Beginning of Winter to light snow.

57. The awns catch up with the sky, and the summer solstice catches up with the time.

58. It is better to plant millet when it rains and cotton when it is sunny, and it is better to plant vegetables on continuously cloudy days.

59. The year is afraid of the Mid-Autumn Festival and the moon is half afraid, and the dealer is afraid of missing the time.

60. Silkworms are old for a while, and wheat is ripe for a while.

61. When eight are ripe, ten percent will be harvested, and when ten are ripe, twenty percent will be lost.

62. The land is far away rather than close, and the land close is not as good as dung.

63. Eat with your teeth and plant with your stubble.

64. Farming happens to fail every three years (transplantation).

65. A good ox cannot stand, and a good horse cannot lie down.

66. Don’t frighten cows and avoid cold whipping.

67. Three cuts of guillotine on an inch of grass, but little material will make you gain weight.

68. A cat can remember a thousand miles, a dog can remember ten thousand, but an old sow can only remember eight and a half miles.

69. Plant deeply and hit hard, and the iron tree will sprout.

70. It takes five years to have peaches, three apricots and four pears, but it takes a hundred years to eat ginkgo.

71. Planting willows in spring and mulberries in summer, it is a good time to plant pine trees in the first month.

72. Dates and chestnuts are harvested in drought; persimmons are harvested in neither drought nor floods.

73. In July, peaches are like hawthorns in August, and in September, chestnuts are smiling.

74. There are people in the court who are good at becoming officials, and one person who has achieved enlightenment can ascend to heaven.

75. If you are rich, you will be prime minister at thirty, and if you are not rich, you will be a long-term worker at eighty.

76. Having money can make the devil push the mill, but having no money can make the ghost push the mill.

77. One generation will be officials for nine generations, one family will be rich and nine will be poor.

78. You can’t be poor for three generations, and you can’t be rich for three generations.

79. The prime minister can punt a boat in his belly, but he can overturn the boat in a small river ditch.

80. Gold cups and silver cups are not as good as the reputation of the people.

81. The country is in chaos and misses a good husband, and the family is poor and misses a good wife.

82. Care leads to chaos, but lack of desire leads to strength.

83. If you want others to not know, you have to do nothing unless you do it yourself.

84. An inch is long and a ruler is short.

85. There is a beginning among thousands, and there is a tail among thousands.

86. The general is incompetent and the three armies are exhausted.

87. One soldier is a raging enemy, and a general is raging in a nest.

88. The King of Chu loves thin waists, and many of his maids starve to death.

89. A son does not think his mother is ugly, and a dog does not think his family is poor.

90. Domestic chickens beat like crazy, but pheasants fly away without beating.

91. If you have ambitions, you will not grow old. If you have no ambitions, you will live a hundred years in vain.

92. Those who have ambitions set long-term ambitions, and those who have no ambitions always set aspirations.

93. If a knife is not sharpened, it will rust; if a person does not learn, he will fall behind.

94. Good iron needs to be refurbished three times, and a good book needs to be read a hundred times.

95. Nothing is difficult in the world, only those who are willing can do it.

96. The rope cuts the wood, and the water drops penetrate the stone.

97. A mountain without ambition can push you down, but a person with ambition can move mountains.

98. One bite cannot eat a fat man, one foot cannot reach the horizon.

99. Don’t relax while rubbing the rope, and don’t stop moving forward.

100. Aiming is not the same as shooting, and starting is not the same as reaching.

101. Talented people come from poor families, and handsome birds emerge from deep mountains.

102. Wisdom can support a thousand people, but strength can support one person.

103. The master leads you in, and practice depends on yourself.

104. The straight trees are cut down first, and the sweet wells are exhausted first.

105. When the first bird is shot, the exposed rafters will rot first.

106. You can be a gatekeeper to a gentleman, but not a housekeeper to a villain.

107. Don’t do bad things and don’t be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door.

108. Hungry rice is as sweet as honey, full rice is not as sweet as honey.

109. If you are hungry, you will not choose food; if you are panic, you will not choose the way.

110. When the drought lasts for a long time, the rain will be more valuable, and when the sky is dark, the lights will shine brightly.

111. Horsepower can be seen through the distance, and people's hearts can be seen over time.

112. Doting a dog on the stove is unfilial to a son.

113. Teach your son in person, but teach your wife behind your back.

114. You can’t eat hot tofu in a hurry, and you can’t drink hot porridge in a hurry.

115. A kind word warms three winters, but a bad word makes June cold.

116. Things are expensive when you leave your hometown, but people are cheap when you leave your hometown.

117. Don’t be surprised if you don’t get surprised, you will lose yourself if you are surprised.

118. Don’t be afraid of thousands of miles away, just be afraid of the partition board (coffin).

119. If you don’t mend one stitch, it will be difficult to sew ten stitches.

120. Those who can carry water are not afraid of the water, and those who can walk are not afraid of narrow roads.

121. The boiling water does not make a sound. The sound of the water does not boil.

122. When others praise a flower, you will make others laugh.

123. Without the breeze, it is difficult to have spring rain.

124. Burning incense will attract ghosts, and giving gifts will attract trouble.

125. If the water stops for a hundred days, insects will grow, and if people are idle for a hundred days, they will get sick.

126. If you have nothing to do, the night will be long, if you have nothing to do, the days will be short.

127. Don’t bully your friend’s wife, and don’t play with your friend’s sister.

128. Don’t do good deeds on your back, and no good deeds should be done on your back.

129. Good things don’t go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles.

130. It takes three years to accumulate good deeds but no one knows about them, and one day to do evil deeds is heard far and near.

131. **Swears dirty words and hits people to hurt their hands.

132. Don’t expose your shortcomings, and don’t slap others in the face.

133. Children in the mountains are not afraid of wolves, and children in the city are not afraid of officials.

134. Serving someone else’s bowl is subject to others’ control, but eating someone else’s meal depends on their face.

135. People respect rich people, but dogs bite people with blue collars.

136. When you are poor, you live in a busy city and have no one to care about. When you are rich, you live in the mountains and have distant relatives.

137. A bastard will vent his anger if he is rich, and a nephew will dare to beat his uncle if he is rich.

138. A forced marriage is not sweet, and a forced marriage is unhappy.

139. When it comes to wearing coarse cloth, knowing how cold it is and knowing how hot it is will make you happy.

140. A man has no home and a woman has no home; a woman has no man and no master.

141. Men are afraid of entering the wrong profession, and women are afraid of marrying the wrong man.

142. A distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor, and a close neighbor is not as good as the opposite door.

143. The elder brother is like the father, and the elder sister-in-law is like the mother.

144. A good man protects three villages, and a good dog protects three neighbors.

145. Illness comes like a mountain falling, and illness goes away like a thread spinning.

146. Tea in the morning and wine at night are the three disasters that harm yourself and your body.

147. If you want to stop drinking, look at the intoxicating person with a sober eye.

148. Don’t hide anything from your parents at home, and don’t hide it from the doctor when you go to the doctor.

149. Folk remedies cure serious illnesses, and famous doctors treat long-term illnesses.

150. There is no etiquette without alcohol, and too much alcohol will hurt your health.

151. Color is like a steel knife for scraping bones. People without color will have a rough road.

152. Eat carrots in winter and ginger in summer to avoid doctors prescribing medicine.

153. The solar term is easy, but life is difficult.

154. One person’s mouth moves, and ten people’s mouths sour.

155. A thousand miles does not drop a needle, a thousand miles does not matter.

156. It is rare to send money, but it is necessary to send many messages.

157. If you don’t sell young people thousands of miles away, they will die when they reach the ground.

158. A lot of goods deceives customers, and a lot of wealth deceives the owner.

159. You won’t suffer any loss when you buy from three stores, and you won’t be unfamiliar with three encounters on the road.

160. I am afraid of ghosts at home and water outside (I don’t know the depth).

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