What does salted fish mean?

With the rise of the Internet, Internet slang is also emerging one after another. People often say, "A person without dreams is just like a salted fish." There is also an Internet joke, "What is a salted fish turning around? Salted fish "You will still be a salted fish". There are many jokes about "salted fish" on the Internet. Do you know what "salted fish" means? Let’s take a look.

The literal meaning of salted fish is fish pickled in salt and dried in the sun. Salted fish is a common name in Cantonese, which means a metaphor for a dead body. It later developed into an Internet slang. In Internet slang, salted fish means: a person who has no ideals or pursuits, lives one day at a time, and is willing to degenerate. Salted fish is often used to describe people who have not accomplished much. People who laugh at themselves because they have no way of making a career are also aware of their own mediocrity.

The word first came from a classic dialogue in Stephen Chow's movie "Shaolin Soccer". The original words were: "If you don't have dreams, what's the difference between being a man and a salted fish?" Later, it gradually derived from what we have today. The self-deprecating sentence pattern implies that he is just a salted fish without dreams.

“Xianyu” refers to “Xianyu”. There are two explanations: 1. Xianyu was created by two young men born in the 1980s who faced the flickering fluorescent screen one night and found themselves so confused. So helpless, like a fish not knowing where to swim in the vast sea. The distinguishing characteristic of those born in the 1980s is that they are a little lazy and energetic. They feel like they are doing nothing every day, so they laugh at themselves as idle fish.

2. Taobao second-hand website is usually called: "Xianyu", also known as "Xianyu". "Salted fish" is most commonly used by friends to laugh at their own incompetence. The Internet hot word salted fish is a derogatory term, but it is also a word that can arouse people's fighting spirit, so it is widely used by people.