The Complete Works of Chaoshan Xiehouyu and Its Interpretation

1, chicken mother and chicken-palm big

Hens take their chicks and watch them grow up day by day. It's a metaphor. People love their children very much and are eager for their children to grow up quickly, but the result is often counterproductive.

2. Green blind bath-dispersion

Blind people shower and splash. "Hearsay" also refers to spread hearsay as truth.

3, bitter gourd laughs sweet beans-two thick

Bitter gourd and peanut coat (shell) are pimples, don't laugh at each other. Multipurpose means that both sides are vulgar in speech, or not so good in other aspects, and they are equal to each other. As the saying goes, "the fox should not laugh at the cat, but the barn will wrinkle." .

4, monk powder-white donkey

Monks are called "bald donkeys". If you powder the monk's face, the donkey will turn white. "Donkey" means hard work, and "White Donkey" means nothing.

5, dog mother snake-fake dragon (spirit)

Dog mother snake, small lizard, also known as "four-legged snake". Pseudo-dragon, pretending to be a dragon. "Dragon" is homophonic with "spirit", and "pseudo-spirit" is often used to satirize people who think they are flexible or knowledgeable.

6, in-store psylla-diners

The bedbugs in the inn only eat the blood of guests. The superficial meaning of "diners" refers to people who eat guests, and another semantic structure refers to people who eat for free.

7. Single flute Dan Xian-disharmony

Only flutes and stringed instruments, no concerto. "Harmony" originally refers to harmony and ensemble, and the pun here is uneconomical and uneconomical.

8, medicine step pure hit the tree handle-call

The cicada hit a big branch and couldn't cry out (in this case, the combination of "no" is similar to "good" and "don't"). Metaphor makes people speechless. The steps of medicine are pure, and cicadas are cicadas. (This case: Some areas in Chaoshan will also be called "Haiyan". )