What is the name of "Dragon and Phoenix" in Cantonese?

The word "Dragon and Phoenix" comes from Guangdong traditional art-Cantonese Opera. The so-called "Dragon and Phoenix" comes from the name of a Cantonese opera troupe in Hong Kong in the early 1960s. This Cantonese Opera Troupe has several outstanding plays, such as Unfinished Love in the Phoenix Pavilion, Man Zi's Wife, Crazy Phoenix and Crazy Dragon, etc.

Because their styles are noisy, lively and dramatic, Hong Kong people like to use "Big Dragon and Phoenix" to describe some types of dramas that are noisy and deliberately put on a show. The word "dragon and phoenix" sounds both "dragon" and "phoenix", which sounds powerful, but it is actually slightly derogatory in Cantonese.

Slowly, everyone extended the word "dragon and phoenix" to mean: deliberately staged a good play for others to deceive people or defraud sympathy.

Therefore, in TVB dramas, people often say "Show him a big dragon and phoenix", and the subtext is often malicious, either to cover up evil deeds or to defraud others' sympathy and trust. However, when this word is used more and more commonly, it simply means acting, and does not mean cheating.

Extended data:

Cantonese vocabulary is divided into Chinese characters, Cantonese words and loanwords. Chinese vocabulary: the most commonly used, accounting for most of the vocabulary, such as "time"; Cantonese words: Cantonese-specific words, such as "virtuous"; Loanwords: refers to words composed of foreign languages, and Cantonese absorbs more loanwords. For example, "store" in Cantonese everyday language means "store" in English.

The same word, Cantonese has a wider meaning and a more vivid part of speech than Mandarin. Cantonese is used to monosyllabic words, but modern Chinese is mostly disyllabic words. In addition, Cantonese retains many ancient words and expressions in both spoken and written languages.

Verbs such as "eat", "enterprise", "look", "fall" and "laugh" in Cantonese are called "eat", "stand", "look" and "call" in Mandarin respectively.

In terms of nouns, "wing", "neck" and "stirrup" correspond to "wing", "neck" and "seam" in Mandarin respectively. ?

Adjective, Cantonese says "Yan", and Mandarin can say "late, late".

Finally, adverbs such as "death" and "immediately" are used, and Mandarin respectively says "finally" and "immediately".

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Cantonese