Many people are very unfamiliar with the first half of this rural saying, mainly because they do not understand what "cutting acid" is, and for the second half of the sentence, people are more familiar. This saying has been found in rural areas all over our country, but the first half of the sentence has a local saying, and the second half of the sentence means the same, but there are differences in the way of expression.
Large loach
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"To eat fish, you have to eat shear acid" is a local saying. "Cut acid" is the dialect of Hainan region of China, according to the pronunciation of the local dialect, the text recorded with Chinese characters, is the name of a loach, most places in the south regard them as a kind of loach, and some places are called eels.
"Shear acid" has different names in various parts of the south, some places called large spiny loach, some places called large thorny eel, and some places call sand loach, stone cone, knife and gun fish, pepper fish and so on. There are different sounds in the southern ten miles, there are many dialects and local languages, and the names of "cut acid" are also diverse, and it is impossible to cite them here.
"Shear acid" generally lives in the sand and stone crevices of freshwater rivers and streams, which is why some places call it sand loach. "Shear acid" swims in the water like loach, but after catching it in the hand, you can see that they have spines on their backs, just like mandarin fish have spines on their backs, but the spines on the back of mandarin fish are larger and thicker, and the spines on the back of "shear acid" are shorter and thinner. This is why some places call it the big spiny loach, the big thorn eel.
"Cut off acid" in the Lingnan area, especially in the Hainan region, larger, also obese, delicious taste, unlike other fish, fishy, especially loach and yellow eel, cooking technology is not good, but also with a strong muddy smell. Locals believe that "shear acid" is very nutritious, can nourish the body, and is the best tonic for the elderly, children and patients in rural areas.
After passing through the Five Ridges, to the Yangtze River Basin, probably because of the climate, the size of the "shear acid" has become significantly smaller, the body has become thinner, and the flesh is hard, not suitable for eating fresh, the general rural people after catching, with firewood drying to eat. Dry ones are harder to eat. This is why some places call them stone cones, indicating that their flesh is very hard. In the countryside of the Yangtze River Basin, this loach can only be regarded as a relatively poor kind of fish, and many people do not want to throw it away when fishing, of course, except for some people with special hobbies. Therefore, here, "shear acid" can only be regarded as a superior aquatic product in fish.
This is exactly in response to a sentence in the "Yanzi Envoy Chu": "Oranges born in Huainan are oranges, and those born in Huaibei are oranges", the environment has changed, and the taste of "oranges" has also changed. The same goes for "shearing acid".
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Similar sayings, in the northern region of China, the more common saying is "to buy land to buy triad soil, to marry a wife to marry a big ass", "to buy cattle to buy a catcher tiger (Note: some places say it is "zadi tiger"), to marry a wife to marry a big ass". The first half of these two sayings are explained separately.
To buy land, you have to buy triad soil.
The more difficult thing to understand in this saying is "triad soil". Before there was no concrete, "triad" is a traditional building material in China, which is more commonly used in rural areas, mainly clay (generally loess), lime and fine sand mixed with water, used for building foundations, but also used to build floors, walls, roads and so on. "Triad soil" has a certain strength and water resistance, relatively strong, durable. In the past, some rural areas called "triad soil" "triad mud".
Triad in archaeology
There is a history of the use of "triad soil" in China's architecture, and during the Ming Dynasty, there was also a "triad soil" composed of lime, pottery powder and crushed stone. In the Qing Dynasty, in addition to the "triad soil" made of lime, clay and fine sand, there was also a "triad soil" made of lime, slag and sand.
The recipe of "triad soil" is recorded in China's ancient architectural materials, such as the "Palace Stone Bridge Practice" book during the Qing Dynasty:
"Gray soil is the mixture of lime and loess, or three-in-one soil"; "gray soil is mixed according to four or six, 40% of lime, 60% of loess".
"Triad" is rarely used in modern architecture because it is stronger with concrete. Nowadays, when repairing ancient buildings and traditional ancient villages, this traditional building material is used in the spirit of "repairing the old as old". Of course, there are also some rural farmhouses, when building bungalows, in order to save costs, there are also "triad soil" as the basic material, but this situation is only used in a small area.
Some people will ask, buying land is not for farming, how to grow crops in "triad soil"? In fact, the "buying land" in "buying land to buy triad soil" refers to buying homestead land, not cultivated land. In fact, the "triad" here is just a metaphorical statement, that is, when buying a homestead, you must buy a place with solid soil like "triad soil", so that the house built is stable and long-lasting. And the houses built on the soft soil of the earth, the foundation is unstable and easy to collapse, and the houses are also easy to collapse.
Cattle markets in the last century
Buy cattle and buy grappling tigers.
In the past, rural families bought cattle, mainly to pull ploughs and ploughs, but also to pull trucks to transport goods. This requires the cattle bought to work vigorously. So when buying cattle, which kind of cattle has great strength and good endurance? Rural people have long accumulated a kind of experience, believing that the cattle they buy should be like "ground-grabbing tigers" (also known as ground-catching tigers in some places).
"Grabbing the ground tiger", in fact, is a tiger, which refers to a tiger that has landed on all four feet and is walking. It is believed that tigers have all their strength because their four legs are short and thick, and they walk like four claws grasping the ground, or four claws are rooted in the ground, and they are strong and brave.
Therefore, when people buy cattle, they have to choose the kind of four legs that are short and thick, so that they have the strength to work. And the kind of four-legged cattle with relatively slender legs, the strength to work is not big, the endurance is insufficient, when working, as you shout, or with the whip, always slowly steaming, the working time is slightly longer, simply lie on the ground and refuse to move, it is really a person who is not anxious, angry with the cattle owner. The countryside calls this kind of cow a "phloem cow", and the throat does not move, and the whip does not move.
That is why people call the four-legged short and stout cow, the powerful cow, the "grasping tiger", or the "ground tiger".
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There is a saying in the countryside: "The ass is good to give birth to a baby", and there are also places that say: "The ass is easy to give birth to a son".
In the old days, the marriage of a man to a woman was a feudal arranged marriage, and the son married his wife, and it was not the son who went on a blind date, but the parents, or the sisters of the parents. The traditional concept of feudal society, as the old saying goes: "No filial piety has three, no queen is greater", marrying a wife is to continue the incense and reproduce offspring.
At that time, the first criterion for looking at a woman on a blind date was not to look at the woman's appearance, but to look at the woman's figure. The requirements of rural people for marrying wives are neither like the popular people in the ancient literati and inkers, nor the standards of young people looking at girls now. Now people in love, first of all to see whether the woman's face has a face, and then look at the woman's slim and graceful, and in the old times, when marrying a wife, we must first see whether the woman has an ass, the size is not to say first, but there must be an obvious ass, of course, the ass is the most ideal, and then it is to see whether the woman has a "fat", the so-called "good woman is a fat".
In the book "Dream of the Red Chamber", the elders of Jia Province, as a result of the feudal arranged marriage, finally chose Xue Baochao, who was still relatively plump, instead of Choosing Lin Daiyu, who was weak and sickly. Here it has to be said that even the official government's home, which also wants to continue the incense, is also influenced by the rural "ass is a good baby" ideology, and finally chose Xue Baochao, who has a "fat" on his body.
Now that medical technology is developed, whether a woman can have children or not is not only a woman's business, but also a man's business. Nowadays, women give birth to children, whether they are urban residents or rural families, most of them go to the hospital to give birth, and there are modern medical conditions to ensure that whether it is a smooth birth or a difficult birth, it can ensure the safety of adults and children.
In the old days, medical technology was not developed, and people regarded childbearing as a woman's business. Women are infertile, and the responsibility lies entirely on the woman alone. Besides, when a woman gives birth in October, in the countryside, most of them have a midwife, prepare a pair of scissors in the delivery room, burn a pot of water with fire, and bring a basin into it. If you encounter difficult childbirth, people will be helpless, can only believe in superstition and worship the gods, and finally helpless, the midwife always asks fiercely: "Is it to protect the adult or the child?" "Sometimes, adults and children are difficult to protect.
In the old days, the proportion of women having difficult births was relatively high, and people called women giving birth to small children "passing through the ghost door". Therefore, in the old days, women who gave birth to children like hens lay eggs were called "able to give birth to babies". No one wants the daughter-in-law they have brought in to have a difficult birth when they have a child, that is to say, a woman who is difficult to give birth to is not a woman who is good at having children.
In the old days, rural people based on daily accumulated experience (most of the midwives are women in the village), thinking that whether pregnant women can give birth smoothly, especially the first child, is mainly determined by the size of the woman's pelvis. The size of a woman's pelvis is determined by the size of the woman's ass. Women with large butts have large pelvises, and babies are relatively large and easy to give birth to. Therefore, in the old days, the rural people formed a concept that it was very easy for women with large butts to have babies. This is the main reason why rural people in the old days liked to pick daughters-in-law with big butts.
In ancient times, science was not developed, especially medicine was not developed, and people used the method of observation to understand things, accumulating experience through the observation of generation after generation. Some of these experiences are close to science, while others are too eccentric and deviate from the track of science, so that they are moving toward superstition.
Women's ass is a good baby, which is the accumulation of experience after long-term observation by people in the old days, but this experience is not absolute, and there are many comprehensive factors in medicine. Because I do not have medical knowledge in this area, whether this statement is right or wrong should be explained by authoritative experts in medicine, and the expert's interpretation shall prevail, and I dare not speak falsely here.
In short, with the development and progress of modern medical technology and the improvement of medical conditions, the problem of women's difficult birth and childbirth in the old rural areas, as well as the problem of infertility, has been well solved. The rural saying "marry a wife and marry a big ass" is outdated.