The golden monkey bids farewell to the past, and the rooster announces spring. As we celebrate the coming of the Yiyou New Year Festival, we found out from thousands of Fujian and Taiwan proverbs that there are quite a few proverbs related to chickens. This may be because chickens are closely related to people and have many uses in Fujian and Taiwan folk customs. For example, chickens and eggs are indispensable during festivals, weddings and birthdays, to catch the wind and wash away the dust, etc. There are currently more than 80 items collected initially, and most of them are philosophical. They include aspects such as self-cultivation, social interaction, life, nature, religious beliefs, customs, and other aspects. Due to space limitations, only some of them are selected for explanation below. However, some proverbs contain ambiguous meanings and can only be roughly classified.
1. For cultivation, the lights are at the third watch and the rooster at the fifth watch: the rooster crows, showing the rooster's diligence and vigor. It describes the third watch and sleeping in the middle of the night, which is a metaphor for studying hard and working hard.
Anji takes advantage of the phoenix to fly: Anji means a silly chicken, while means to follow. "Phoenix" is the king of birds in ancient legends. He is good at flying. The male is called Feng and the female is called Huang. Chickens have short wings and cannot fly high. How can they compare with Phoenix? It is a metaphor for blindly imitating others regardless of one's own identity and abilities.
Featherless chicken, pretending to be big: a chicken without feathers, but pretending to be big. It is a metaphor for having a weak foundation and a poor foundation, but trying to pretend to be fat.
There is Tongshi, Zhuanjian: Tong, yes, possible. If there is something to eat, even the dirty, smelly and small chicken coop dares to get into it. It is a metaphor for being greedy for a certain benefit and doing whatever it takes. No matter how dirty or smelly you are, you can do it.
Grasshopper is playing tricks on the chicken - overestimating one's ability and seeking death. This is an afterthought. Grasshopper refers to grasshopper, Jiweng refers to rooster, naught, tease, meaning that grasshopper dares to tease rooster, it is really overestimating its own capabilities and seeking death. In ancient times, the rooster was called Jiweng. In the Northern Wei Dynasty, Zhang Qiujian's "Hundred Chicken Titles" said: "One chicken is worth five, and one chicken is worth three." This idiom is the embodiment of the ancient saying, and now it is said to be chicken horns.
There are no chickens that lay eggs, and there are chicken excrements: the hens didn’t lay eggs, but they actually produced chicken excrements, and asked you to clean them up. It is a metaphor that there is not enough success and more than enough failure.
Chicken intestines, chicken belly: a metaphor for a small belly, which is as stingy and stingy as a chicken's intestines and a bird's belly.
Dark chicken picks up broken rice: dark means stupid. Although the stupid chicken picks up some broken rice to eat, it can still fill its stomach. It is a metaphor for slowly accumulating, adding up a little makes a lot.
Chicken feces, half black and white: Hen, that is, a hen. The hen's shit is half black and white. It is a metaphor for having no independent opinion, going back on one's word, saying something negative at one moment, and speaking rightly at another.
When chicken droppings fall to the ground, there are also three inches of smoke: falling off means falling to the ground. Smoke refers to heat. I advise people not to have short-term ambitions but to move upward. As long as the principles are upright and tenable, don't be discouraged by short-term ambitions.
The hen breaks her eggs: The hen breaks her own eggs when she is angry. Used to describe anger.
日Crazy (xiao) Chicken, Borer Crazy Chicken: Crazy refers to abnormal nerves, which are difficult to predict when the attack occurs. Ming refers to night. It also ridicules some people who are not dedicated in love and are inconsistent in love.
2. Social type
Betting on the chicken will not lead to success, and there will be nothing to do if you press on the person: bet, force. Hey, I mean no. Fu means hatching. If you force a chicken to hatch a chick, it's impossible to hatch a chick, and if you force a person to do something, it's impossible to succeed. It has a close meaning to the twisted melon.
The chicken controls the goose, and the beggar controls the prince: Goose, the goose is bigger than the chicken, it is impossible for the chicken to control the goose, how can the beggar control the prince? A metaphor for overestimating one's abilities.
Eating chicken depends on chicken, eating duck depends on duck: food, eat. Rely, rely on. It is a metaphor for not having a firm stand and following the trend. If you have milk, you are a mother. Chicken eggs are dense but also have gaps: On the surface, eggs appear to be dense, but in fact they have gaps. It is a metaphor that no one's words and deeds can be so secret that people don't know about it unless they don't do it.
To kill a chicken, use an ox-dagger: 刣, to kill. Why use a knife to kill a chicken? Metaphor to make a fuss out of a molehill.
The chicken's beak becomes a duck's beak: The chicken's beak is pointed, with a sharp beak and a sharp tongue, which describes a person who is eloquent. Speechless.
The hen will take care of her chicks easily, while the male hen will drag the sail with her chicks: take care of the chicks and take care of the children. That is to say, it is the hen's duty to raise the chicks, and it feels obligatory, and it is very smooth and easy, but the rooster cannot raise the chicks, and it is as strenuous as dragging a sailboat.
One is a metaphor for using talents appropriately, otherwise it will waste manpower and reduce efficiency; the other is that laymen should not do what experts do. Every other line is like a mountain.
3. In terms of life
I often hear a saying that "feeding chickens does not matter the chaff, feeding pigs does not matter the rice." This means that we treat our parents with filial piety and be open-minded. , Be measured and don’t worry about everything. Brothers and sisters share infinite shares and will have great grandchildren in the future. The proverb "No matter what chaff you feed a chicken, or rice if you feed a chicken" is vividly used to describe parents' love for their children and their willingness to raise them at any cost. Some children care about every meal when supporting their parents and are not filial to their parents. This is wrong. Only by showing love to their parents can they cultivate good offspring who respect the elderly and love the young.
A chicken doesn’t care about a ruler, and a man doesn’t care about his skin: He doesn’t care about a ruler, and he doesn’t fear being beaten or driven away by people using bamboo branches. No regrets about face, means not afraid of losing face, no regrets about face and skin. It describes that when the hungry armor cannot be stopped, in order to survive, all etiquette and dignity are ignored, and all evil is let go.
The hen jumps over the wall, and the chickens embroider: embroider: follow. The hen jumps over the wall, and the chicken learns to jump over the wall, which is similar to the Mandarin saying of "up and down", which is also the Minnan dialect of "big school". This sentence also shows that teaching by example is sometimes better than teaching by words, that is to say, giving He knew it would be better to do Huyikan.
Chickens eat broken rice and ducks eat grain, and everyone is happy in his own way: It is a metaphor that there are many laid-off and unemployed people in the society, and everyone finds his own way to make a living and become rich.
To kill a chicken, kill the throat, and to kill a snake, hit the head. It is a metaphor for life A. Only by using the correct method to deal with Dai Zhi can we have the method to achieve the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort and handle Dai Zhi well.
The solitary chicken mother eats millet, the solitary chicken mother eats meat: meat, Quanzhou pronounces hik. The meaning of "eating", not eating, not liking to eat, is the same as the meaning of delicious food for many people.
A chicken with one head and two heads crowing: It is a metaphor for the hard life of a middle-aged man who loses his spouse, has young children, old parents, no one to take care of him, and has to earn money to survive.
浞鸡筅biji: 枵鸡, a hungry chicken. Zhan originally refers to brushing, but here it refers to the action of chickens looking for food. Pier: The foot of a wall. It is a metaphor that when people are poor, they will always try to find a way to make a living.
4. Natural knowledge: If a chicken exposes its wings, the sun will shine; if a chicken exposes its legs, it will generate floods. This means that if a chicken exposes its wings, it means it will be a day of bright sunshine. ; If the chicken's thighs are exposed to the sun, it means there will be heavy rain and high water. This can be said to be a very direct and clear weather forecast!
Another sentence: The rain is fertile and the sound of chickens is heard, and the sun is exposed to the sun. Cheng: fertile means being exposed to rain. Sucheng refers to the place where millet is dried. Yuwojisheng means that it rains when the rooster crows, and sun exposure Sucheng means that it will be sunny after dawn. So, the sound of rain, fertile chicken, and sun exposure means that if it rains when the chicken crows, then it will definitely be a fine day after dawn. This may be a rule summed up by ancient people in predicting the weather.
5. Agricultural and sideline industries
Raising chickens and ducks is better than doing physiological work: This means that raising chickens and ducks well is better than doing business. Another saying is, "A home with chickens and ducks is like a cornucopia." This all means that if you raise ducks and chickens well, you will make a lot of money.
Jinji Lianghao: It means that chickens weighing more than one catty and chickens weighing seven or eighty liang are the most delicious, and the meat is very tender.
Bantam hens lay eggs: Bantam hens are good at laying eggs.
6. In terms of religious belief, when a person is weak, his fart will kill a chicken; when a person is prosperous, ghosts dare to play tricks: when a person is weak, it is just right, which is a metaphor for bad luck and hitting a wall everywhere; when a person is lucky, things will happen All goes well.
The chicken with a crooked mouth eats large grains of rice: a metaphor that fools sometimes get blessings. Just like "Kouzuizhao Shiquan", although a woman looks ugly, sometimes she is blessed with good things.
Marry a chicken and garnish the chicken to fly; marry a dog and garnish the dog to fly: garnish means heel. Walk means run. Synonymous with "if you marry a chicken, follow the chicken; if you marry a dog, follow the dog". This is a way of saying that men are superior to women in the old society