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Lu Southwest dialect miscellaneous talk - scorpion tiger

Lu Southwest dialect miscellaneous talk - scorpion tiger

A scorpion tiger

There is a passage in the third volume of the "Ink Guest Waving Rhinoceros" written by the Song Dynasty scholar Peng Cheng:-The ancient law: Lingfang Lane each uses a large urn to store water and plant willow branches, pan lizards, so that the children in green clothes surround and shout: "Lizards and lizards, xingyun spit fog, rain pouring down, let the ru return." Kaifeng Province's Zhuantangzha, Jifang Lane and other watchful rain are very urgent, and can not get the lizard, often replaced by scorpion tigers. The scorpion tiger dies when it enters the water, and the incompetent god mutant also. Xiao'er said even more: "Unjust and unjust, I am a scorpion tiger, as if I am faint, how can I get the rain?" The "scorpion tiger" used in this passage indicates that the "gecko" was called "scorpion tiger" a long time ago.

Lu Southwest dialect miscellaneous talk - scorpion tiger

Taken in May 2021

The Chinese Dictionary explains "Scorpion Tiger" as "Pinyin xiē hǔ, dialect: ૆ is powerful." gecko. Also called 'Scorpion Tiger'" means. In the Southwest Lu dialect, the "gecko" is called "scorpion tiger", and in the oral expression, there are suffixes in the spoken word, such as "scorpion tiger", "scorpion tiger", "scorpion tiger", "scorpion tiger lianzi" and so on. For example, "Brother (dialect expression of 'brother'), I see that there is a scorpion tiger on the wall, do you dare to ke (the dialect expression of 'catch', pronounced kei) it is not? "Dawn! Pit me, I don't want to be gracious! Gong has the ability to go, after holding on to the boss's cotton shoes, pit him once, he is most afraid of the scorpion tiger's la, hehe, guaranteed fun. "That tube (the dialect expression of 'line'), I'll go to the scorpion tiger's, and you'll release it." If the boss knew, I wouldn't care if he beat you. ”

Lu Southwest dialect miscellaneous talk - scorpion tiger

If you find a scorpion tiger at home, you generally don't have to drive it away. Although the scorpion tiger looks a little scary, it is not timid, people will hide as soon as they approach, and it can eat some small mosquitoes and bugs and the like. If you see it and feel maddening, flustered, just drive it away. Scorpion tiger not only eats mosquitoes, but also a kind of Chinese medicinal materials, try not to take the sole of the shoe to shoot it to death.

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