A brief talk on Hakka Proverbs

Proverbs are a kind of idioms, easy to understand, form almost all one or two short sentences, and generally express a complete meaning.　　Hakka Proverb is the spiritual wealth summed up and created in the long life of the Hakkas, with vivid language, rich content, meaningful flavor and intriguing. Hakka proverb is very rich in content, can be divided into the following three categories: ① production of Proverbs. Summarize production experience, including meteorological, seasonal, farming technology, livestock breeding, manual work. such as "Early Sunset, Evening rain, sunset Sun dead Fish", "Mang burning Days, the summer solstice rains Ripple", "Spring hoe mud, summer hoe skin, dry hoe shallow, wet hoe deep", "pigs to feed, cows to feed night grass" and so on. ② Social Proverb. It reflects class oppression and social human contemplation. such as "crows, everywhere Red bayberry flower", "money can make the mare", "Cylinder mouth sealed live, the population is not sealed", "the strength of the moment is strength, the outcome of the eternal is the reason". ③ life Proverb. Summing up the experience of every aspect of daily life, reflecting people's world outlook, life attitude and moral concept.　　such as "Two feet stand firm, not afraid of wind shaking", "Good harvest as Shangian, encounter Shangian not hungry", "want to be, every day tired, get fine, people listen to", and "after the Walk Hundred steps, not on the pharmacy" and so on. Most modern sayings are from the old society, and with the development of the Times has produced many new proverbs, such as "The train runs fast, all rely on the front belt", "see the difficulties on, see honor let" and so on. There are also some misconceptions and misconceptions in the old proverbs, such as "Sweep, Hugh tube others on the frost", "destined eight feet, difficult to find a Zhang", "Dragon born, chicken born chicken, mice and children will make holes" and so on, these should be abandoned.