Spoken sayings are created by the masses in Chinese vocabulary and spread in the spoken language of the masses. They are colloquial and popular language units. They are popular and widely popular stereotyped sentences, concise and visual, and large-scale. Most are created by working people. Reflect people’s life experiences and aspirations.
Spoken sayings are also called common sayings and common sayings. These three are synonymous. The word "slang" has been widely used as a linguistic term; the word "shangyan" has the flavor of classical Chinese; the word "slang" has the flavor of spoken language. Common sayings make people's communication more convenient and interesting, and have local characteristics.
Seven-character proverbs
Spoken sayings refer to sentences that are conventional, widely popular, and have concise images. Common examples include pressing the gourd to make the gourd float, being a monk for one day and ringing the clock for one day, being a full man but not being hungry, being inseparable, not wanting to die until he reaches the Yellow River, not distinguishing between green, red and white, and seeking medical treatment indiscriminately when sick, etc.
From a broad perspective, colloquialisms include proverbs, idioms, idiomatic expressions and idioms commonly used in oral practice, but do not include dialect words, colloquial words, idioms in written language, or famous aphorisms in famous books.
In a narrow sense, colloquialism is one of the genres with its own characteristics, which is different from proverbs and idioms, but some colloquialisms fall between the two. Common sayings come from a wide range of sources, not only from the oral creations of the people, but also related to famous poems, aphorisms, historical allusions, etc. Detailed explanation
(1) Folk sayings.
"Historical Records·Funny Biographies": "As the people say, 'If you don't marry a wife for the river uncle, the water will come and float away, drowning the people.'"
(2) , popular and stereotyped sentences.
"Book of Han·Biography of Lu Wenshu": "There is a saying: 'Painting the ground is a prison that cannot be entered, and carving wood is a wrong time for officials.'" Chapter 13 of "Lao Can's Travels": " Since there are so few people with no talent, as the saying goes, "things are rare and valuable," doesn't it mean that if you don't have talent, you will become a treasure? "The wise guest comes to you diligently." Xiao Yun almost said this saying. (3) Dialect.
Li Daoyuan of the Northern Wei Dynasty wrote "Shui Jing Zhu·Rushui": ""Rushui"... flows into the "Nan River" from the northwest. The sounds of "Ru" and "Nan" are similar, and "Di" is a common saying. "Yu Er." Liu Zhiji of the Tang Dynasty wrote in Shi Tong's Miscellaneous Comments: "So there are many dialects of Jin, Chu, and Lu in the Six Classics." Zhu Guangqian, "Yi" Wen Zatan · "Dante's "On Vulgarity">": "What he (?Dante?) calls vulgarity is the local language used by the people of various countries that is opposed to the official language (?Latin?) used by the church."< /p>
(4) Refers to the local customary name.
Chapter 55 of "A Dream of Red Mansions": "There is also a plaque on this hall, inscribed with the four words "Bu Ren Yu De"; the common saying in the family is just "Meeting Hall".
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