Proverbs are simple and concise phrases widely circulated in the folklore, most of which reflect the practical experience of the working people and are generally passed down orally. It is mostly a colloquial form of easy-to-understand phrases or rhymes.
Proverbs, like idioms, are a part of the language as a whole and can increase the distinctiveness and vividness of the language. But proverbs and quotations are different. Proverbs are the practical life experiences of working people, while quotations are the words of famous people.
Proverbs are folk collective creation, widely spread by word of mouth, simple and concise and more stereotyped artistic utterances, is the people's rich wisdom and general experience of the regularity of the summary. According to the content, can be divided into three categories:
(1) meteorological proverbs. Meteorological proverbs is to understand nature and summarize the production experience of the proverbs, such as "long insects across the road, the rain to come", "the northeast has three treasures: ginseng, mink, wulagao" and so on.
(2) agricultural proverbs. Agricultural proverbs are farmers in the production practice summarized in the agricultural experience, such as "jujube buds hair, planting cotton", "this winter wheat cover three layers of quilt, the next year sleep on the pillow buns" and so on.
(3) Life proverbs. Life proverbs are people according to the health care knowledge summarized into proverbs, such as "cold from the feet, disease enters by the mouth", "get up early in the morning, eighty do not feel old" and so on.
(4) Social proverbs. Social proverbs refer to the things that should be paid attention to in the world, receiving things and treating people, holding the family and ruling the country, such as: "small amount is not a gentleman, no poison is not a husband", "people can not look like, seawater can not be measured by the bucket", "if you want to know, unless you do not do" and so on. unless you don't do it yourself", etc.
Expanded:
Proverbs, including hiatus, are a kind of folk proverbs with a unique form of artistic structure, which consists of two parts, in front of the hypothetical words, which are metaphors, and in the back, which are the purpose of the It consists of two parts, the front is a hypothesis, a metaphor; the back is a purpose, an explanation. Divided into allegorical and harmonic two kinds. Harmonized hysteria, for example: small onions mixed with tofu ----- a green (clear) two white; allegorical hysteria, for example: fifteen buckets to hit the water ---- seven on eight down.
The hiatus is mainly used to express some kind of scene in life and some kind of psychological state of people, such as "sesame falling into the eye of the needle - coincidental". Often with a sense of humor and irony, such as "the tiger wearing a number of beads - fake mercy". Metaphorical image, satirical sharp, expressive, some people even compare the hiatus to the proverbial "essay".
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