How to speak in Sichuan dialect when eating?

In Sichuan dialect, "eating" is usually expressed as "the whole meal" (zen?fan), which does not mean cooking, but the meaning of eating. However, sometimes it is also expressed directly as "eating", both of which can be used to express the meaning of eating.

Although the morphemes of "eat" and "zheng" are completely different, the meaning of "zheng" in Sichuan dialect is to eat. For example, in some daily slang: "Tune, tidy, tidy, lest mosquitoes bite you" means "eat quickly, don't give flies a chance to crawl on the food".

The speaking population of Sichuan dialect covers the entire Sichuan Province and Chongqing City, except for some non-Han inhabited areas, as well as some counties and cities adjacent to Sichuan in Shaanxi, Hubei, Hunan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other provinces. With a population of approximately 93 million, it is one of the branches of Chinese with the largest population.

Extended information:

Some uses of "eat" in Sichuan dialect:

1. Eat and enjoy lunch:

Sichuan dialect "Chishangwu" means "having lunch". There is also a legend here:

It is said that one summer long ago, farmers in Bazi, western Sichuan, sang folk songs while planting rice seedlings. Let everyone sing, and the farmers joked: "Hoaring folk songs will roar away the weeds in the fields." The prefect said that if the weeds can be roared away, everyone will be rewarded with a lunch.

As expected, there were no more weeds in the field. The prefect also pointed out that farmers had said that singing folk songs would make the rice seedlings grow taller, so he wanted to miss out on the lunch. That night, the farmer drained some water from the field, and to the untrained eye, the rice seedlings indeed grew taller. So the prefect had no choice but to admit defeat and reward each of the farmers who transplanted the rice seedlings with a meal. From then on, people called lunch "eating the afternoon meal".

2. Eat nine bowls:

"Nine bowls (er)" originally refers to the nine main dishes at the banquet. The word "dou" is used in Chengdu and other local dialects. It means "big", so Chengdu people also call it "eating nine bowls" or "eating nine bowls". ?

3. Tooth-beating sacrifice:

Now it generally refers to "eating meat" or understood as improving life. In ancient times, it reflected the sacrificial customs of Sichuan people and is widely used in Sichuan area. .

Reference materials: Baidu Encyclopedia-Sichuan dialect collection

Baidu Encyclopedia-Sichuan dialect