Let's first get to know the two animals of "shrew" and "shrew".
Yuán is an oviparous amphibian reptile, a collective term for soft-shelled aquatic turtles of the turtle family Turtle family.
There are many aliases, also known as sand turtle, blue ball fish, green ball fish, group fish and so on.
These names may not be familiar to us In Guangdong, but "water fish" you definitely know, there are also people called Yuan Yu.
In Cantonese, water fish (seoi jyu) has two meanings.
The first refers to people who are easily deceived.
Because the water fish is the turtle, commonly known as the turtle, the tuan fish and the king eight, the body is flat and round, the water fish is born a reptile, easy to be caught, the water fish is stupid enough, although it crawls on all fours, opens its teeth and dances its claws, but if it is flipped over, it will be let go of mermaid meat.
Because of the clumsy appearance, the victim who is described as a liar is called a "water fish."
The second is deceptive behavior. The most critical point is that as we all know, "water" means "money" in the minds of Cantonese people (such as pig cage into the water, stacking water, pumping water, degree of water, etc.). The people of Canton call water wealth.
Therefore, people who are easily deceived are called water fish. And "fishing in the water" refers to deceptive behavior.
Because the water fish shell is soft, it is taken out of the water and pressed out of the water, and the "water" in Guangdong is used as a "money" solution. Many and vulnerable.
Therefore, people who are easily deceived are called water fish. And the fish refers to deceiving people.
For example: "A person becomes a fish in the water." (He's a guy who is easily fooled and gets cheated all day long.) ）
Another example: "You go out to buy a broom to be eye-catching, and it is easy to tie up and be a fish in the water." (You have to be eye-catching when you go out shopping, otherwise it's easy to be cheated on by others.) ）
The second animal: the shrew (phonetic camel, i.e. crocodile). It is a short-snout, more than two meters long, and has scales on its back and tail. On the banks of the cave-dwelling river, the skin can be drummed. Aliases Chinese shrew, earth dragon, Yangzi crocodile, Chinese crocodile, pig dragon. The adult body can reach a total length of about 2 meters, and the tail length is similar to the length of the body.
The shrew has long been recorded in Chinese history, and there is a record in the "Record of The Alien Dragon": "Shrew, the great turtle also." The Erya Wing Shrew also says: "The shrew, the great one of the turtles, is as wide as one or two zhang." "
When King Mu of Zhou went on a crusade to jiujiang in Jiangxi, he caught a large number of reptiles such as shrews to fill in the river and build bridges, leaving behind the idiom story of "the shrew is a beam".
The idiom "shrew for a beam", which means:
1. Than the shrew crosses for the beam.
2. It is not enough to use the shrew as a beam, and it is futile to seek the three mountains on the sea that are ethereal. (Nie Juping)