Two-part allegorical sayings in Hakka dialect are composed of rhetoric devices such as homophonic, homophonic, contrast, metaphor and concrete stories. If you don't know the story of this two-part allegorical saying, it's hard to explain its meaning. Here are some examples:

Zhang's Tea-On the way back to Gansu. Why did Zhang's tea return to Gansu halfway? The story goes like this: there is a rich man named Zhang. Whenever a poor man comes to borrow money, he treats him like poor tea. After drinking, he asked, "Is my tea good?" Whoever says "the tea of the third master is the best tea" can get a loan. On the contrary, no matter how hard you try, you can't borrow it or lend it. There was a poor man who didn't know the temperament of Third Master. When he came to borrow it, he said that Third Master's tea was really inferior and rough. As a result, no matter how much he begged, he didn't get a loan, so he had to leave the third master's house disgruntled. He thought all the way: "why can others get money from the third master, but they can't?" ! "After thinking about it, I suddenly realized that I might have said that his tea was not good. So I decided to go back and find out about it. So, when he returned to the third master's house, he shouted, "Third master, third master, come out quickly! The third host heard the voice and asked, "What are you doing here again?" The poor man quickly said, "Third Master, I am poor and nearsighted. I came to your house earlier and drank your cup of tea, but I didn't think much about it and mistakenly thought it was inferior tea. You don't know your tea is very different until you drink it in your stomach. After I came out of your house, the taste of sweet tea once appeared in my stomach. Your tea on the way was especially sweet, which made me feel refreshed and refreshed! So I came back to tell you that Third Master's tea is the best in the world! ! Hearing this, Third Master finally agreed to borrow money.

This two-part allegorical saying has two meanings: First, it means that the third master is hypocritical, and when he flatters, he will get carried away. Second, when Yu Fan encounters setbacks in his work, he should think more, find out the crux and change his strategy, so that he can often get things done well.

Aunt anqiu hit the maid.

Before liberation, Aunt Qiu was born in a scholarly family. She was cheerful, open-minded and enthusiastic about social welfare undertakings. The villagers respectfully call her Aunt Anqiu.

Aunt anqiu thinks that the maid at home has done something wrong and must be punished by flogging, but the punishment should be moderate. If it is light and painless, she can't learn the lesson; You hit her hard, she was injured and had to be treated, even delaying her work. So, just right. This story soon spread, and later became a popular allegory to persuade those who had a hard time with others: "Aunt Anqiu hit a maid (compared to Jane)-just right."

Qingzai's lost jeans

Qingzai is a cowherd, with a playful nature, and especially likes going to the theatre. He is just a movie fan. Every morning, he took the cowboy to the hillside, tied the cow rope to the tree head and played by himself. One day, the neighboring village celebrated the Buddha's birthday, singing operas to reward the gods, cigarettes wrapped around, gongs and drums were loud, and it was very lively. Qingzai ran to the theater as soon as he released the cowboy. It was not until the sun went down and it was dark that Qing Tsai ran back to the hillside. To his great surprise, the cowboy disappeared. Qingzai hurried along the hillside to look for it. Everyone asked, "Have you seen my cowboy?" The other party asked, "When did you lose it?" Answer: "Most of the time." The other party shook his head, sighed and said, "It's gone far, it's hopeless." As a result, the cowboy was not found, but the news spread all over the country. This is the origin of the two-part allegorical saying "Qingzai lost his cowboy-fly away, it's hopeless".

The cat made a phone call.

In Anhai, Jinjiang, if people encounter unexpected things and are frightened, they will humorously say, "The cat made a phone call-it was a shock." What's going on here? It turns out that in the early days of liberation, only a few government agencies had telephones, and private people had telephones, which was really rare. People need to call in an emergency, so they have to go to the post office. Mao Jiu is an honest businessman, opening a small shop and doing some small business. Because the business is booming, the goods are suddenly out of stock and need to be replenished as soon as possible, so the cat went to the post office to make a phone call with great interest. Because of the poor equipment and lack of experience in telephone use at that time, the result was "hello, hello, hello!" " "Shouted for a long time, but didn't make each other understand. However, the telephone bill is calculated according to the length of the call, and the number of telephone bills charged by the post office is so large that the cat is dumbfounded. The story was later condensed into a humorous two-part allegorical saying.