Guangdong Hakka folk proverbs

Hakka is an important part of local residents in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Taiwan Province and other provinces in China. As one of the Han immigrants in the ancient history of China, it is one of the most widely distributed and far-reaching Han people in the world. I hope you will like the following proverbs about Hakkas.

Soil helps soil to form a wall, water helps water to make waves, and people help others become kings.

There are tigers in the mountains, and monkeys are called bullies.

Mountain people are not afraid of wolves, and city people are not afraid of officials.

Country people rush to the city (Sang 3), but they can't win at all (Yang 3)

One thousand days of climbing nitrate and more than a dozen times (referring to days and days of savings reimbursement)

It's hard to meet fire in a thousand years.

A thousand soldiers have a head, and ten thousand soldiers have a master.

Road to the sky, take your own road.

The road is not good (hang2) let people shovel (the meaning of accusation)

Playing sandals on the side of the road, some people are long and some people are short.

All evils first, filial piety first.

If you don't know the horse's suffering right away, you will be hungry when you are full (gi 1)

Horses eat people and have ugly faces.

Go and cheat people for a meal, and Tang Wei will marry him.

It is better to stand than to sit.

It is too early to fight for the quilt (pi 1) before going to bed.

Money is not divination, cash is current price (ga4)

Thunder Lord in the sky, uncle in the ground

Big things, but also on the ground

The colder and tighter the weather, the more ruthless the richer people are.

The sky is afraid of stars (xiang 1), and the underground is afraid of eyes (kia4, instant) (Jiang 4).

I've seen thousands of things, and I've seen beggars.

Too much water can't cross the boat, and too many hands can't cover the sky.

Soak cowhide to make it tougher (nin4)

Good water punting, many people end early.

Many people do things well, but few people do things well.

Guan Gong, who is not afraid of blushing, is afraid of a grinning bodhisattva.

The squire doesn't know how to weigh, and he can still see the fish in the basket.

There are many people in Han Xin, but there are many wise men.

Han Xin is full of people and wisdom.

People are colorful, and rice is full of flowers and safflower.

People can't fall on crutches, it's wrong to discuss things.

No two sets of people died and no two sets of debts were paid (wang2)

There are three grasses in life, and I don't know which one is better.

If you can't read by hand, you can't grow any grass.

When people die, salt falls into the water.

People keep dogs (giong 1), but don't listen to their own temptations (liuo4).

Other people's meat can't stick to themselves (hang4)

What is difficult for people is difficult for heaven.

When people are kind, water is sweet, while when people are kind, sugar is salty.

Nine out of ten gamblers are poor, and one is unbearably poor.

Finger length, lotus height.

Ten geography, nine broken books and one broken book are all finished.

Leave one step out of ten, lest the apprentice bump into the master.

Fingertips, fools are exhausted.

Cross street is famous for smashing bowls.

Seven is not equal to one, and one is not arrogant.

The knife has not turned yellow, and the road has not been abandoned.

You have to be a bitch and build a memorial arch.

Seven horns and an octagonal voice (sang 1), difficult to sing and ugly (Tian 1) (refers to poor singing level, no artistic cells, and dry shouting. )

Thirty years old

The clams in the well have seen the light of day again

Burn the stairs (kuai 1) and go up and down (sang 1 ha 1) (meaning that you will never associate with them again and break off relations. )

Fire-burning water mill (superstitious people think that fire brings wealth and floods really cause losses)

A cow doesn't know its horns, and a horse doesn't know its face.

The fox doesn't know that its tail stinks, and the snail doesn't know that its tail is wrinkled.

Cows lack shit.

After the bull accident, the horse accident happened again.

Horn (go4) versus horn, or care for each other (go4)

Short-sleeved gown with short mouth for shade.

Wind-driven bamboo shoots and rainy wetlands.

The wind blows the eggshell, which makes people happy.

There are no honest people, only useless people.

The loach fish can't catch it.

You don't need hemp seed to make cakes.

Don't laugh at the tortoise, everyone will rest in the mud.

Carpenters make flails and carry them themselves.

Eldest brother is grandpa and eldest sister-in-law is mother.

Read it, unless it's heaven

Upper shed (sa4) Wow, lower shed is listening (shed refers to the veranda between horizontal houses, which is often used by Hakkas as a place to eat and enjoy the cool)

Neighboring every three dynasties (sa2) and facing every four dynasties (ga 1).

There are hats and no hats, and there are clothes and shirts (meaning that you can't say anything out of thin air, but speak according to the facts)

Don't be a good person, be a trouble.

The yellow burden in June is unbearable (meaning that the grievance is unbearable)

There are a lot of debts, and people are as tight as fire.

At the age of three, he was glad to beat the queen, and at the age of thirty, his grandfather sued the official (Ye Yi a2, referring to his father).

Three fellow villagers all got official seals.

Three generations are officials, and they dare not offend skilled craftsmen.

Three ducks and four mouths (describing no real skill, only one mouth)

Three or two cotton bombs (negotiations) failed.

Three years of drought won't starve the chef.

The emperor worships the god of wealth, and the wealth is divided into three levels.

With pride, tofu makes a pot.

With a flower between your teeth, you can have a mouth to surprise others and a mouth to surprise yourself.

I want to put my hair in a bun, but my two strands of hair don't live up to my expectations.

Huang Po stared at me until Huang Po (zang 1 di 1).

It's not nice to hang chicken feathers on the waistband. People steal chickens.

Distant relatives have wine and meat, and fire calls neighbors.

Look at the world (se4), and look at sandals according to the outline.

Waiting for a fart in a dead man's belly.

Dead mouse feels no cold.

Dead mice and other cats drag (meaning letting themselves go, there is nothing they can do)

I ate wine from other people's jars and went to my barn to cook glutinous rice.

Good plays make people drunk, while bad plays make people sleep.

Good wine is not sour, and good people are not bad.

A good chair was eaten by insects.

It's hard to bargain if you kill pigs.

Huang Yi is still on the ridge, fighting for soup.

Rats bite the coffin, strangers can't get in, and the dead can't get out.

Live as a cow and die as a vegetable basket.

I can hit people a thousand times, but I won't hit people.

I can sit on the top, but I can't drag my feet back.

Red flowers and blood wine are eaten by others, and the devils carry them themselves.

People, people, have a hundred hearts.

All pepper is spicy, all sesame.

Singles are afraid of beating, Simao is afraid of pulling (ca4)

Turn it off until you are hungry, and tie it (tia4) until you can fight.

Sex depends on endurance.

A cow died because of Kagan grass.

Three years of soaking, cage empty, three years with human movement (soaking jie4 refers to the tender thread twisted by ramie. Nongnong move, refers to a child's lively behavior)

Pick up the snail with three hands and hold it firmly.

It takes a basket of grain to move from one house to another.

Moving from house to house, I didn't see a valley.

Pass a threshold and eat three bowls of rice.

Not above the eyebrows, not below the knees (qi4).

Wearing a thousand pounds on the upper body and playing lanterns on the lower body.

Tilt one foot up and one foot down (cang 1)