Excerpts from Common Folk Xiehouyu: Tortoise Eating Watermelon-Rolling and Crawling
Bastard pulls rickshaws-strong, not strong.
The tortoise is wearing a straw hat-short and trembling.
The tortoise is determined to eat hard.
The tortoise is pulling the wheel-roll, roll, climb.
The tortoise has meat in its belly.
The tortoise came out of the water-showing his nose.
Wang Xiaoer opens a restaurant-watching people eat food.
The Spring Festival in Wang Xiaoer is getting worse every year.
Wang Dalang has malaria.
Wang Dalang plays with wild cats-everyone loves one thing.
The Queen Mother went down to the kitchen-made it herself.
It will rain sooner or later this year.
The word Wang lacks a horizontal line-it's a bit rustic.
Compared with the word jade, the word Wang is only a little different.
Be a relative in the palace-come here, go there.
Wang Po sold the mill-there's nothing to push.
The old woman sells melons-blaming herself and boasting.
The blind king tells a fortune-tell me straight away.
Don't let the eagle fly away until you see the rabbit-hold on tight.
Cann't punt-strange river bay
Don't eat puffer fish-I don't know the taste of fish.
Don't eat mutton, it stinks-it's famous.
Listen to storytelling instead of music-speaking is better than singing.
People who don't drink accompany drunks-a powerful company
Stainless steel as chopping block-wrong material
Don't play the Hu Qin, just play the flute-light comes out of the eye hole.
If you don't talk because of them, call names first-you didn't see them.
Come and sit uninvited-shameless
Don't take the oil bottle-you won't get tired of your hands.
Common folk allegorical sayings recommend that a tumbler fall on a stone-a child without an ass.
The tumbler fell into the blood basin-Red Man.
The tumbler took a car.-It's not safe.
There was no anesthetic for the operation-it was hard work.
Don't shoot an arrow before opening the bow-it's a lie.
Sprinkle boiling water on mice-even if they die, skin them.
Boiled corn-no discoloration
Driving out is a place where people live-poverty.
Break a river and collapse a dam-it's hard to end it.
Before the performance-paint and powder
Five fingers into the salt pot-a handful
Five people live in two places-half-hearted.
Sell calamus on the sixth day of May-outdated goods.
Borrow a hoe in May-you hoe, I won't.
It is foggy in Meng Duo in May.
Say five words twice-in a few words.
Fifth, go further-go brighter and brighter.
Go to sea at five o'clock-catch up with the trend
Singing in Wugeng-It's too early to be happy.
A crack in the sky-both the sun and the moon are sad.
Weighing people on the scales-underestimating people
It is unfair to add weight to the balance.
It's cold and wet-blow on it.
Tengu eats the sun-there is an unknown.
It's going to rain and my mother is getting married-there's nothing I can do.
It will snow at dawn.-got it.
Burning kang at dawn-the timing is wrong
The sky is high and the emperor is far away-it doesn't matter.
Water hanging on the well platform-easy to slip
Planting flowers in the well-there is no future.