Zhongshan Sayings

The following standard Cantonese sayings are also popular in Zhongshan.

Luohan invites Guanyin

--Multiple people pool their money to invite one person for a banquet or meal.

Zhang Tianshi meets the ghosts and bewitches

--A person who is skillful in the art will also miss the mark.

The old cat burns its whiskers

--This and the previous sentence also mean the same thing.

More incense burners, more ghosts

--One more person to divide the benefits into books

Chicken spleen beats people's teeth to soften them

--Giving some benefits to other people, so that they can do some favors or favoritism to themselves in their speeches. or favoritism.

Water over a duck's back

-Something that is forgotten after it is over.

Dove's Eye

--The person who looks down on others and has a snobbish eye.

No Fish or Shrimp in the Sea is Great

--There is no outstanding person in the place, so even someone who does not have enough weight can become a great person. This is equivalent to the northern saying that if there is no tiger in the mountain, the monkey is the king, but the Zhongshan people don't say that.

Good incense is treated like rotten firewood

-Treating precious things as cheap.

Eating cereal seeds

- having no regular income and relying on savings for a living.

Shed-end pulling boxes, walk as you go

- to walk in a vicious, hurried manner.

One for the sake of God's work, and the other for the sake of the disciples

- two for the sake of one. For the sake of others, and for themselves.

Falling rain to collect firewood

- describes work done perfunctorily and sloppily.

Shan Da Chop has firewood buried

--The harvest of each tsubo is not much, but it accumulates a lot.