Sichuanese speech is a kind of performance art, or a kind of metaphysics.
The most typical, when a foreigner asked for directions , the enthusiastic Sichuanese seem to say a lot of places, what dam dam side corner click corner , asked a lonely.
When it comes to holidays, Chengdu's lanes and alleys are full of tourists.
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Li Boqing Scattered commentary on this matter -
The foreigners asked: "Mr. Li, where do you live?"
Li Boqing: "Chunxi Road past a drop,
Yanshikou inverted a trace ,
tall house side ,
short house click ,
three inverted ,
three inverted ,
the first time I saw this, it was the first time I'd seen it. p> three turns, four turns,
a tree, a tree, a two, a two, a two, a two, and a two. , two words alley."
People in the north probably like to say east, west, south, north and south, and most southerners probably favor front, back, left and right, while the Sichuanese insist on describing places of reference in a very fuzzy way, as if everyone lives on a "happy planet" that only the Sichuanese can understand. " , a planet whose catchphrase is "superimposed words".
How marvelous are the Sichuanese "superlatives"?
Try pronouncing Sichuanese in Mandarin.
In some Chengdu dialects, the first sound is the second sound in Mandarin.
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They can blur what is clear, where is the "ka ka jiao jiao"; big concepts become small , and you can be fooled into eating someone else's "ma ma fish"; big concepts become small , and you can be fooled into eating someone else's "ma ma fish".
Sunshine and tea, the life of the Sichuan people is very comfortable.
Figure / Xiaohongshu @ Xiaobao students
This is also the Sichuan people in the interpersonal communication in the pursuit and practice of life philosophy : almost on the line, do not have to be particularly serious ; no matter what the state of affairs, to the extreme is not good,
The first time that I have seen this is the first time in the world that I have seen this, I have seen it.
Panda boy.
Photo / Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding
Life is not a "end to end" road, since it has been "close together" , then "close together" .
Life is not a "end-to-end" road.
In Sichuan, perhaps "Damba" is the most frequent place name.
It's hard to find a cup of tea at the Dongpo Lake Guangchang Damba.
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A square, a wide-open space, is called a damba in Sichuan, but its definition is very fluid - how big is a damba?
Ten meters square only enough to pace back and forth counts; the site of the grandparents dancing to the music of course also counts, so the square dance to Sichuan became dam dance ; large to the west of a large grassland , can also be dam dam.
Hongyuan grassland dam dam on the Wachee Tallinn.
Photo / Xiaohongshu @ A Xue JustA
So when Sichuanese say dam dam, you really do not quite correspond to the imagination of the mind.
The western Sichuan dam is perhaps the largest "dam" in Sichuan.
Cartography / Sun Lu
More difficult to figure out than "dam dam" is the "click corner corner". The corners are called "ka-ka-ka", and if they're particularly narrow, you can add "kok-ka-ka".
"Ka ka jia jiao jiao" is a common Sichuanese word for cramped place, and in different contexts it has other meanings. When a Sichuanese person says "ka ka jiao jiao", the muzzle is more or less a bit disgusted .
There are a lot of "bianbian" and "jiajiaojiao" near Chunxi Road.
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Let me tell you something: The ones who often stay in the "Ka Ka Kok Kok" are not all good people ~
The place where you turn the corner is called "Kok Kok". ", which is quite understandable. But the Sichuanese have to use superlatives, as if the description is less direct and less biased. The same goes for "side by side", which is supposed to mean next to, but here the sense of proportion is completely obliterated by the superlatives.
Cornering on Leshan, which is congested on vacation.
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Next to the "side", separated by a road or "side". Specifically how far away depends on how long the pronunciation of the side dragged when said ...... Sichuan people better give outsiders a "long sound guide", pronunciation of 1 second corresponds to how long the distance, in the end is to say clear thia.
So when you ask for directions, the Sichuanese say: "There's a dam in front of you, and there's a corner on the side of it, so don't worry about those clicks and corners." Unbeknownst to me, I thought the big brother was coming up with an impromptu rap?
The Sichuanese are lovely, all over the land of Sichuan.
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Not all the names or directions in Sichuan are so vague. There are many places in Sichuan that are called "Baobao" , and it is true that there is a hill or a dirt bag in that place, which is very evocative.
In addition, KanKanShang, GouGouShang, LingLingShang, LiangLiangShang, YanYanBang, PengKengHou, JianJianShan, DongDongGou , these simple and direct place names, full of rural atmosphere but also is the Sichuan people of the homeland of the most intimate name, as if superimposed words, home becomes lovely up . .
The city of Leshan, the bag on the dam and a few ditches.
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If the Sichuanese use of superlatives in describing the location of places only blurs the clarity of the location, then when this usage enters into the field of food and drink, Sichuan's cuisine is not only tasty, but also good and cute .
It's too easy to play cards with a sausage on your head.
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Stroll through the market, buy two handfuls of vine vine vegetables , weigh two pounds of chicken Feifei ; to do risotto, to use peppercorns shells shells ; to eat a big meal, called eat Mangmang ; On New Year's Day, after eating Baba Banquet , and then set the Dragon Gate, an indispensable Baba Tea ...... not to mention Skewers, bowl of chicken, dan dan noodles has been rushed to the country.
Many of the names in Sichuan cuisine are classic superlatives.
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Potter's Chicken is a variety of ingredients skewered on skewers, put into a potter full of soup, and eat it and count the skewers. Whether the ingredients are meat or vegetarian, whether the soup is red oil or clear soup, for the Sichuan people are indifferent, inclusive , want to eat what eat what.
Potter's chicken is also a great flavor in the skewers.
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Sichuan people are sincere enough to treat food without being dogmatic, and enjoyment comes first.
This tolerance is especially evident in the dan dan noodles. The Sichuanese treat dan dan noodles as if they were a child of their uncle's family, and it doesn't matter whether it's a great uncle or a great uncle.
The Dandan noodles are a great way to get the most out of your life, and they are a great way to get the most out of your life.
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So a bowl of Sichuan dan dan noodles whether there is soup or no soup, whether pure noodles or vegetables , as long as the surface with a spoonful of spicy fresh meat, that is a good bowl of dan dan noodles.
Good and so on is not the same as authentic? Szechuan people have a headache when they hear the question of authenticity , fearing that someone has to ask for the noodles to be put on the stretcher to be sold along the street. Don't be so rigid, my friend, times have changed.
Eat dan dan noodles, eat while stirring, in the tongue feel the noodles and spices tangled flavor.
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Yibin put on the barbecue, Leshan deep-fried skewers, Hongya brine skewers, Jiangyou dip ...... no matter what kind of skewers, are meat and vegetables are not taboo, not only because of the richness of Sichuan, but also Sichuanese people treat the food of a kind of tolerance . .
The people of Sichuan are well known for their delicious food, and not only do they tell you what's good to eat, but they also tell you what's not good to eat, and what you can't eat even if it sounds like the same thing, and they're just as confusing as they are confusing.
They're not the only ones who can tell you what's good to eat.
A Sichuan specialty, the Nine Bowls Ba Ba Banquet.
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This is represented by "Mimi".
The Sichuan word "mimi" originally meant something small, and was used to describe "a small thing like a grain of rice", but in the food world it became Schr?dinger's "mimi".
Watermelon Mimi is the seed of the watermelon, Cherry Mimi is the core of the cherry, eat melon to peel the melon shell shells, eat inside the Mimi, Grape Mimi to be spit out, Walnut Mimi to eat. There's no one who has anything to do with rice, so just say you're dizzy or not.
The Sichuanese people, who love food, have unknowingly exposed their character traits and habits in a single dish of food. Looking cute, the superlatives are sometimes a way of talking about food, but also a kind of wisdom .
Come to the delicious Sichuan and eat Mangmang together.
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"rake rake vegetables" is a famous dish in rural Sichuan, cowpeas, eggplants, potatoes and so on will be boiled rake, and then with dipping water can be served. The dish is also self-deprecating in the chatter of Sichuan men. Men who love their wives very much are called "rake ears" in Sichuan. A few rake ears party, mocking this is a table "rake rake dishes", is also a funny Sichuan men.
Sichuan men love their wives, cooking is also a good hand.
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The famous snack "stick chicken", named after the back of the knife that cuts the chicken with a wooden stick. In Sichuan slang, the process of "knocking on the stick" has been extended to mean being slaughtered in the course of doing business. "Don't knock on my stick" is the most common phrase used by Sichuanese when bargaining.
Chicken feet and legs, fish pendulums, and peppercorn shells are all part of the daily life of Sichuanese people.
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"Ma Ma Fish", popular in eastern and southern Sichuan as well as Chongqing, is a hot and spicy river food dish. From the name, you can hear how much pepper is added to it. And hemp has another meaning in Sichuan, which is to deceive, to cajole .
The crunchy, sweet sugar-oiled fruits of my childhood.
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When a Sichuanese friend reminds you not to eat someone else's "Ma Ma Fish", he is not advising you to eat less fish, he is telling you to be careful not to be fooled.
If the superlatives on place names are abstract and vague, and the superlatives on food are obvious, the superlatives used by Sichuanese to describe the phenomenon are a bit metaphysical .
The Szechuan money board, listen to it over a cup of tea.
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How well is a piece of meat stewed? The Sichuanese would describe it with "two rakes, two rakes", a superlative of extreme ambiguity.
Rake means soft , and if you want to describe a particularly soft, the Sichuanese will arrange it directly with the superlative "rake rake rake".
Drinking tea and picking ears, a perfect Sichuan life.
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How do you say "soft" when it's not particularly soft? "Two" is a stroke of genius -- often used to describe a state that is not quite perfect but not far off.
It's a word that the Sichuanese would like to repeat again, using the phrase "two rakes, two rakes" to emphasize that the distance is so subtle as to be unmeasurable to the naked eye.
Neighbors gather in the yard to chat, the joy of the Sichuan people.
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If you want to ask "two rakes two rakes" in the end how rake? I'm afraid that the Sichuan people themselves can not say, look around and tell you helplessly: heart to feel.
So you can only stare at the pot of meat, secretly ask it: you rake it? Maybe the meat in Sichuan will come back to you: not yet, I am now "two rakes, two rakes".
Chicken feet and feet stewed in two rakes and two rakes.
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A two-letter word, a euphemism that at least seems less offensive in situations where it's hard to say it outright.
Other pets are not so lovely to look at, in front of the owner's face, say a "two good two good" is always right; the leadership account of the thing is not much grasp, the leadership asked, speak a "two
Chengdu elderly park pile of chess, the scene lively and harmonious.
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And "two" is the same, there is also the word "small", the girl "good little good", the boy "good little good".
Small" is a word that can be used to describe a person's behavior, but it's also a word that can be used to describe a person's personality.
The speaker mellowed some of the seemingly sharp expressions, making them less verbally aggressive and more endearing, even in the midst of a fight.
Gaiwan tea is more popular when it's cooler.
Photo / Little Red Book @ LainOnJuly
"Gua Ruoxi" "ha poke poke" , trying to image the opponents of the intellectual suppression. But this word ah once stacked, it seems to drag, hurt index plummeted , so much so that it blurred the boundaries of quarrel and flirting.
Sometimes, listening to the Sichuan people quarrel is like watching a variety show, as if every sentence has a special effect pop-up.
The road is bordered by the Kankan, which carries poles.
Photography/Li Zhiyong
The use of superlatives reflects some elements of the Sichuanese character, a cultural temperament nurtured by the geography and richness of the land.
This temperament coincides with the lifestyle of the "Land of Heaven", which emphasizes contentment, and the Sichuanese superlatives that can be found everywhere are the indispensable notes of this contentment.
Did the Sichuanese people speak in fengshui 2,000 years ago?
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Finally, to get to Erxianqiao, take Chenghua Avenue ?