Qi people's humorous jokes

From Ying Shao's Collection of Arts and Literature in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Volume 40 quotes Customs Tong. The article means that greedy people want all kinds of benefits.

Original text:

As the saying goes: Qi people have daughters, and two people ask for audience. The owner is ugly and rich, and the west is good and poor. Parents can't decide whether to doubt, ask their daughters, decide what they want, and it's hard to blame the speaker for generalizing, so I know. This woman is naked. I want to know why. Yue: "I want to eat in the east, but stay in the west." This is also for both sides.

Translation:

One family in the state of Qi has a daughter, and two families have come to propose marriage. The man in "Dong Jia" is ugly but his family is rich, while the man in "Xi Zi" is beautiful but his family is poor.

Parents hesitated and asked their daughter, "Who have you decided to marry? If it's hard for you to say it yourself, just stretch out your arm and let us know what you mean. " The daughter showed her arms. The parents were surprised and asked her why. The daughter said, "(I) want to eat at my boss's house and stay at my hometown."

Custom Tong, also known as Custom, is a custom book written by Ying Shao, a scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Custom Yi Tong is a folk work compiled by Ying Shao, the Taishou of Mount Tai in the Eastern Han Dynasty. There are thirty volumes in the original book and one appendix, but only ten volumes remain today. This book examines the ritual system "White Tiger Tong" and corrects the popular genre "Lun Heng", which records a lot of myths and anecdotes, but the author adds his own notes, thus becoming an important document for studying the customs and worship of ghosts and gods before the Han Dynasty.

Lu Ji contains a number of articles about customs and habits, which is an escape from eleven volumes. Among them, there are myths such as "Nu Wa creates man" and "Li Bing fights against the corner", all of which are recorded for the first time.

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