Seek a two-part allegorical saying describing the rural scenery of mountains and rivers, urgently! Urgent! Urgent! Urgent!

The rain hit Huangmei's head-bad luck. (pour plums)

Half cotton.-no way. (No bullets)

Narcissus doesn't bloom-play dumb.

Two-part allegorical saying is composed of two parts: the former part acts as an introduction, like a riddle, and the latter part acts as a background, like a riddle, which is very natural and appropriate. In a certain language environment, you can understand and guess the original intention by saying the first half sentence and "resting" the second half sentence, so it is called two-part allegorical saying.

China has a long history of civilization. Five thousand years of historical vicissitudes have precipitated, refined and condensed into a wonderful language art, in which two-part allegorical sayings have their unique expressive force.

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Historical origin

The name "Xiehouyu" first appeared in the Tang Dynasty. The so-called "Wu Hou of Zheng" (a kind of "Hou Hou" poem) has been mentioned in the biography of the old Tang Dynasty. However, as a language form and phenomenon, it appeared as early as the pre-Qin period.

For example, "The Warring States Policy Chu Ce IV": "It's not too late to mend." In other words, it is not too late to repair the sheepfold after the sheep is lost. This is the two-part allegorical saying we saw today.

Cihai: Two-part allegorical saying is an idiom. Humorous and vivid sentences, which are familiar to the masses, can be used to hide the following words and indicate them in the previous words, such as just saying "playing chess on the chessboard" to show that it is not the right way; It can also be juxtaposed before and after, such as "Sesame Blossoms Are Rising".

China Encyclopedia of Language and Writing: Two-part allegorical sayings refer to humorous words that are deliberately omitted from common words when speaking. There are usually two kinds.

1, the original meaning of two-part allegorical sayings refers to the omission of the last word of an idiom, which is also called "foot contraction".

For example, in Jin Ping Mei, Lai Wang's daughter-in-law said that "your fifth Hu Qiu play" was used to allude to "wife" because "Hu Qiu beats his wife" is a famous story and script. There are also homophones. If "grandfather" is called "bibcock turn", it means "stick", not "Zhang" here.

An extended two-part allegorical saying, known as one-liners in Beijing, means that you can leave out the second half of a sentence. For example, "Tofu with ponytail" omits "I can't lift it". Sometimes homonyms are also used. Such as "nephew playing lanterns-still the same (uncle)"

Some linguists and linguistic monographs will mention other related names when studying the origin of two-part allegorical sayings. For example, in The Origin of Rhetoric, Chen Wangdao introduced two-part allegorical sayings in the section of Tibetan dialect; In the study of proverbs, Guo Shaoyu pointed out that two-part allegorical sayings originated from "echo" (a form similar to guessing).

Other books list names such as argot, riddle, proverb, shrinking feet and one-liners. By comparison, most of them reveal some similarities and differences.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-two-part allegorical saying