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Zhoushan dialect: What does it mean to eat hanging chicken?

The meaning of swearing.

Hanging chicken is a swear word in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province. Most people hate to say that they are hanging chickens. In Zhoushan, Zhejiang, don't talk about hanging chickens casually. In Zhoushan dialect, there is a kind of play called pulling a horse's face, a kind of speaking is called shrinking words, and an understanding is called knowing.

Zhoushan generally refers to Zhoushan city. Zhoushan, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Zhejiang Province, is the central city of the Yangtze River Delta and an important city in the Shanghai metropolitan area. It is located in the northeast of Zhejiang Province, bordering the East China Sea in the east, Hangzhou Bay in the west and Shanghai in the north.