Classic Chaoshan dialect proverbs

Chaozhou dialect originated from Putian dialect, an ancient Minnan dialect. There are many classic sayings circulating in Chaoshan area. The following are the classic quotations of Chaoshan dialect that I compiled for you. Welcome to reading.

Classic Chaoshan dialect proverbs

The footwell blocks the mouth of the chair and the rice (you don't know how to eat until you help with the housework)

Scare my brother to death (trying to scare people to death)

Make a sample (pretend)

Thirty bougainvillea flowers, thirty purple Niang leaves skin.

Sandy night (green dragonfly) has a tail to eat gum.

Married as Tianan, the night is also double; Marry an enterprise and save half an hour; If you get married, you will be safe.

This year's sweet potato is not as impressive as before.

Pickles are my life. If I see fish, I will live. (of a person walking upward)

Beginners look at people's opinions, but rags look at firewood. (refers to experience, you must understand it first. )

The cat itself is called Jiao. (It can also be described as a thief shouting to catch a thief)

Suspicious goods are buyers. (refers to finding fault and trying to lower the price)

Vegetable head pot, hot one-sided. This is often used to describe unrequited love or self-righteousness.

Turtles and turtles have no hair and crabs have no cream. (more refers to the same kind bullying each other to find fault)

A cat marries a mouse and walks away? Branches bark for a long time. (Like a mouse marrying a girl, the voice is not big)

Seven lives, eight deaths and nine pasturages. It used to be thought that a baby could be raised in less than one month, seven months and nine months, but not eight months. )

You can't eat a bowl of chopsticks. (I'm not full, joking that I can't eat vegetables and chopsticks)

I didn't say anything nice and did nothing. (I can't even make rice cakes and the like, which means I can't do anything, say the wrong thing or do something wrong.)

People get together at the theater and listen to people they met in ancient times give money. When the play comes to a reunion, it means the end. The storyteller will not collect money after a period of time, which is a metaphor for bad luck and always fails to catch up with the good times.

Tears as blind as a bat. (metaphor want to cry or deserve it)

It's evil to eat and mend quickly. (For peace of mind, do good deeds to make up for previous sins)

Stand back before eating. Eat hard and be lazy, that is, lazy people eat hard. )

Stealing food has no mouth. (Leave evidence without knowing it)

Recommendation of idioms in Chaoshan dialect

Give up the loser (what a pity)

Seven things to open the door (referring to rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea)

I'm a pig head. I drive people to pick buildings. (ugly but still obsessed with his wife, metaphorically, without self-knowledge)

You can't earn food by doing odd jobs. (The salary of handyman is not high)

Marry a man, not a field. Marry a good man, don't just look at the money at home.

Love is really bitter. To get married, you must work hard and accumulate wealth.

Too lazy to lose. Might as well not do it.

A poor official and a ghost died, and a group of people were short of food and rice. Officials and ghosts are not allowed to argue with them or offend them. )

People eat at the twelve-dish table, while people drool at the waist and excrement ditch. (of turning your back or doing something wrong in the end)

On the fried noodles. As messy as fried noodles.

Thick leather paving stone. (thick-skinned)

Five-five is words, white is paper, I don't follow you, I don't follow you (illiterate)

A torn shirt is a coat, and an acre of death is a wife. (indicating that the loser feels precious)

Notre Dame Turtle (an ugly and vicious woman portrayed as a god)

Haojing meets Bai Lian on the third floor. (lean meat, fat meat, pork belly)

Just a cat makes a big difference. Legend has it that a single domestic cat is a symbol of luck and has money to build a house.

Gastrointestinal burning and repair. (intestines stick together, describing being hungry. )

With or without mosquito nets, beggars bite and scream. (Temporary accommodation, poor conditions)

Common sayings in Chaoshan dialect

Good grade one, good grade fifteen (answer blows with blows, no mercy)

Getting on the sedan chair is to tie your feet.

Don't think about breaking a marriage (true love can't be broken)

Slaves suck milk? Sit and throw (the baby's sitting position is very certain)

Lapo meets acquaintances (bragging about meeting people who know the truth)

Dare to die and live, afraid of his wife (a hero is sad and afraid of his wife)

In the past, the bride was quiet and virtuous when she first got married, which meant that the bride returned to her original shape within a few days after she passed the door. )

Feeding a baby changes eighteen times (raising a daughter changes eighteen times)

Flowers are not staggered, and people are nice.

The rich are rich and the poor are poor.

I'm disfigured when I die.

One person works in class, and a hundred people carry the heavy burden (people who talk but don't do it have no shortcomings)

In the dark (in the dark)

There is no June day when you go out (the weather is changeable, so you should prepare more warm clothes)

Headache cures the head and foot pain cures the foot.

I saw an eye needle (I always thought it was periostitis caused by peeking at the female vulva)

Play three points, be a man seven points (learn to be a man first)

I know the beginning and the end.

Be meticulous before you die (despise old urchins)