Climbing fork • rake ground cow cow • buckwheat wing • cow, dragon lice
Zhang Yuhu
Climb the fork
Now that people's living conditions are better, the indoor ground is flat and dry, and insects cannot invade and are not suitable for survival. In the past, the civil structure buildings where people lived, the ground was also earthy, damp and leaky, creating a good living environment for various insects, so they were uninvited and coexisted with people. Climbing forks is one of them.
The dialects around Taiyuan Chengnan Xiaodian read (bā) and "fork" read (sā). This insect is only called a fork, probably because it is a reptile, and the shape is like the "fork" that people use to pick firewood.
The body of the crawler was flattened, more than an inch long, and on both sides were countless slender legs, like a tuft of unkempt hair, crawling very fast. It often climbs on walls, kang, cabinets, and even on people. Although it looks very ugly, it does not bite people, sting people. When I was a child, when I saw that there were poisonous insects such as centipedes and centipedes in my family, we beat them to death, and my mother did not stop them, and also said some words such as "snakes, scorpions, centipedes, and it is safe to kill them". But when we saw the climbing fork we were going to beat to death, our mother stopped us, saying that the climbing fork was the horse of the "grandfather" (immortal), and there was a climbing fork in the family, indicating that there were gods protecting the family at home, and killing the climbing fork would provoke the "grandfather". So who is this "grandpa"? Later, I heard that the climbing fork, also known as the "money string", was the mount of Zhao Gongming, the god of wealth. Oh, no wonder, even if it is the mount of the god of wealth, that climbing fork is there, it means that the god of wealth is also there, who is willing to take the god of wealth away, who dares to kill the mount of the god of wealth, and provoke the god of wealth to be angry? Originally, the fork climbing fork was the mascot and protection god in the minds of the farmers in the small shop area. Because the fork did not have a record of biting the sting, coupled with the missionary work of my mother and their generation, I later had some good feelings for the fork, thinking that it was no longer so annoying, and let it crawl around at home without interfering with it, sometimes crawling on its own clothes, and even the face on its hands was not afraid.
After moving the idea of writing this small article, I went to the computer to search comprehensively, and I learned that the official name of the crawling fork in the dialect of our small shop should be called a worm, because it has 15 pairs of slender feet, it looks disheveled, some places call it messy hair, and because it looks like shoes, some places call it grass shoe worm. The Internet also introduced that "there is a link behind its head, there is a pair of hook-shaped jaw feet, the end of the jaw foot is claw-shaped, and the top of the claw is a poisonous gland opening, which can secrete venom, and after touching the human skin, it can cause local herpes, which is stinging and uncomfortable." Ah, the cute climbing fork, the mount of the "grandfather", it turned out to be a poisonous insect, fortunately its "weapon" was not used on me.
After investigation, what we call the worm, also known as the worm, is another subspecies of the worm family. There are many kinds of things in the world.
Rake cattle cattle
In the past, there were many species of arthropods that often appeared in people's courtyards and in and around houses, of which scorpions and centipedes were probably the most powerful, and there were two of them in the "five poisons" that the villagers used to say.
Scorpions are powerful, people on the earth know, in the past to live in adobe houses rural people know more, in the wall cracks or under the pit will often have scorpions lurking, if you accidentally provoke it, it will pick up its tail to sting you, this "sting" word, may be the ancestors specially created for scorpions. The scorpion stung at that, it was really terrible, the unbearable pain of the fire, the inexplicable itch of the hundred claws scratching the heart, and the pain was unbearable. The villagers' "Four Great Poisons" put the scorpion into it: "The wind in the sun's head cave in the clouds, the scorpion's tail and mother's heart." For the poisonous scorpion, it is everyone who must get rid of it quickly, no one feels sorry for it, no one pities it, in the corner of the house, the scorpion is seen, the hand cannot be caught, the foot is not good, the peasant women also have their own sharp tools against the scorpion, that is, the scissors that often do not leave the hand: they reached forward in a big way, opened the blade of the scissors to the scorpion and slammed it, the hand was focused, the scorpion was cut into two pieces, the hand was light, and the scorpion could be clipped up and thrown into the courtyard to feed the chickens. In the past, when the village New Year's window flowers were pasted, there was a pattern of women using scissors to clip scorpions, which was definitely from life. The scorpion thing, maybe because it is too toxic, maybe because it is too well-known as the king of the insects, the dialects everywhere are called scorpions, and no other names have been heard.
Centipedes juxtaposed with scorpions can be more aliases in various places, there are tianlong, celestial worms, centipedes, millipedes, thousand legs, money strings, etc., although centipedes are also among the "five poisons", although there are centipedes that bite snakes, centipedes are more vicious than snakes, but in real life, it is rare to hear about people being bitten by centipedes. As a result, centipedes are far less fearful than snakes and scorpions. When I was young, the children in the village did not have much fun, and on hot days they would catch all kinds of insects to play, and the centipede in the "five poisons" of course could not escape our palms, and the tail of the centipede was juxtaposed with two hard horn spines, and after catching the centipede, we pinched the two-inch long sorghum pole and stuck the centipede's tail thorn on it, and after letting go, the centipede dragged the sorghum pole and spun it back and forth in the courtyard, just like the cattle pulled the rake in the field. We learned this way of playing from children older than us, and children who are older than us also learned from children older than them... We also hear the name of the rake cow from the mouths of children who are older than us, and the children who are older than us also hear from the mouths of children who are older than them. The name "Rake Cow" is definitely not the invention of some of our little farts, but the people in our Xiaodian dialect area have been handed down from generation to generation.
For a long time, I called the centipede a rake cow, and later I learned that it was a rake cow called a centipede.
Buckwheat wings
Locusts are the "big households" of the grasshopper family in the farmland, but the word locust is not found in the rural dialect of the Xiaodian area, but is called according to its shape and color. There are two kinds of locusts that harm crops in the farmland, one is all green, very beautiful, the dialect of the small shop countryside is called "tiger head", tiger head is relatively rare; the other is earth color, there are scattered dark spots on the body, the villagers are called "buckwheat wings", the locusts that can be seen in the fields, most of them are buckwheat wings. In our memory, there has not been a large-scale locust plague in our area, and we are not so terrible and hateful about locusts, and I think they are very cute and funny. In particular, the green tiger head is more beautiful, and it is very interesting to catch a catch and play with it. Tiger head and buckwheat wings are both flying insects, and it is not very easy to catch. After seeing them, they chased after them in the grass of the field, and it was also rare to crawl and beat the cat and the mouse. In desperation, we will also cast some learned "tricks" and "spells" from nowhere to subdue them: one is that when we see buckwheat wings flying, we slap them vigorously while reading a special song aloud: "Buckwheat wings buckwheat wings beat, beat Lao Tzu's hands!" "The second is that when you see buckwheat wings flying over, you take off the small shoes you are wearing on your feet and throw them according to it, and it is said that if you throw them correctly, the buckwheat wings will burrow into the shoe bowl and fall down and tie your hands. Needless to say, buckwheat wings react when they use both methods: when they hear us clapping their hands hard, they tend to fly in the direction of the sound and vibrate their wings to make a rustling sound; when they see the shoes we throw, they also fly a short distance with the shoes. But the thing that actually flew into the shoe in my hand was never encountered.
Tiger head buckwheat wing letter is clever and difficult to catch, but can not stand their group is very large, many, everywhere in the wild, and there are our peasant children idle, specially to deal with them, at the end of the day, there are still many gains. Catch that beautiful green tiger's head, tie it around its waist with a cotton thread, and let it fly in a circle, and the gray buckwheat wings are strung up with a dog's tail grass and taken back to feed the cats or chickens, and all kinds of grasshoppers are the favorite good food of cats and chickens.
When farmers in the Xiaodian area describe people as miserly and stingy, they love to use a "green" word, often using words such as "green", "green shell", "green eyebrow oil" and so on. "Tiger head" This kind of grasshopper is bright green and cute green, so it also innocently carries a black pot for those stingy ghosts, people describe someone as stingy, and sometimes say "that guy is a green tiger head".
cows, dragon lice
The dialects of Chinese not only have obvious regional characteristics in pronunciation, but also have obvious local characteristics in vocabulary, and the vocabulary of dialects is also different from urban and rural areas, and the distinction between industries. In the rural dialects of the southern suburbs of Taiyuan, the titles of various insects are very wild, and the use of the images or characteristics of these insects to illustrate people's metaphors is even more evocative.
In the mouths of the farmers on the ground in the southern suburbs of Taiyuan, there are two familiar sayings, one is cow as a dragon lice and the other is lice bar cow joke stinks. These two sentences satirize two phenomena and involve three species of insects.
Let's start with the first sentence. Cow, the scientific name is Dung Beetle, and in mandarin Chinese standards should also be called Shell Lang. But the Taiyuan peasants' stupid chewing, can not hold back so complex and profound words, or cow or cow said smoothly, listen to the law. cows feed on animal dung, mostly in the cowshed horse pen, a day of cow dung eggs rolling around, self-enjoyment, so that people seem to be very uncivilized, very un elegant. Although he is praised by scientists as the scavenger of nature, he is regarded by ordinary people as the most despicable of insects because of his nature of eating. When the villagers joke about low-level basketball games, they often use the term "shit cows and eggs" to describe. "Dragon lice" is a kind of insect scientifically named "Tianniu", the slender body of the Tianniu is the size of a child's finger, the body is black, there are white spots, there are two long tentacles, moving on the tall tree, looking very noble, no wonder the farmers call it "dragon lice". Dragon lice are plant-eating insects and are one of the main pests in human forestry production and crop cultivation. Although "shit cow" is a beneficial insect and "dragon lice" is a pest, the balance of rural people's emotions still tends to the side of "dragon lice", believing that dragon lice are noble with a "dragon" word, while shit cow is low because of sticking to a "shit" word. Therefore, people refer to the children who are handsome and smart and smart in the future as dragon lice, and those dolls who are crooked and cracked and have a fishy eyebrow are likened to cows. If the adult not only protects his not very good doll, but also boasts in front of people, people will humbly say cow as a dragon lice.
Stinky knife, is a scientific name of Tsubaki elephant insect, is also a beetle, mandarin commonly known as stink bug. This insect grows mostly on trees and crops such as fennel, and when people move it, it will excrete a very unpleasant odor out of self-defense, and people hate it. The dialect phrase "shit cow joke stinks" is equivalent to the "fifty steps of laughter and a hundred steps" of wen yanwen, which is the kind of person who "scratches two hands of shit at home, and laughs at other people's ass eyes that are not wiped clean". Phrases in the countryside that have similar structures to this meaning include "Black Old Eagle (Crow) Joke Crow Magpie (Magpie) White Hair Less", "Stone Chicken Joke Quail Without Tail", etc., these sentences are from the mouth of the farmer, and every object in the sentence comes from the field. If it is a city person or a foreigner who ridicules the same phenomenon, I am afraid it will be a different flavor. Such a language should be the Taiyuan dialect with rural characteristics.
The word "du" in the word "corpse" could not be typed at all, so it had to be replaced by a word of consent. Strange, it should have been a common word.