Proverbs
01 · Historical Records
In modern times, after the first local proverb collection Yue Proverbs appeared in 1918, Shanghai Proverbs was published in Shanghai in 1921; as a famous modern Chinese folk proverb collection it drew scholarly attention. The Chenhang area is a very typical suburban village of Shanghai and an epitome of the evolution of traditional market towns and village dwellings. It gradually gathered into a market in the Wanli period of the Ming; from the Xianfeng period of the Qing it was successively called Chenjiahang, Chenhang township and Chenhang town, and from October 2000 it belonged to Pujiang town of Minhang district. Most of the proverbs recorded in the Shanghai Proverbs of the 1920s are still widely current and used in Chenhang. In June 2007 the Chenhang ballads and proverbs were listed as the first batch of intangible cultural heritage of Shanghai.
02 · Core Techniques & Process
Its central area of currency is Chenhang in Shanghai, so some also call it Chenhang proverbs. Its compiler Hu Zude was a man of Chenhang in Pudong, Shanghai, and the more than two thousand proverbs in the book were mainly collected in the Chenhang area. Here is the home town of Qin Yubo, the Shanghai county city god, known as the home of those who wear boots and caps. It touches astronomy and meteorology, production and life, social phenomena, men and women old and young, experience of life, exhortation and blessing, satire of abuses and children's instruction, with very many categories and subjects. With social development and progress new proverbs continually arise.
Shanghai Proverbs
The famous modern Chinese folk proverb collection published in 1921.
Yue Proverbs
The first modern local proverb collection, appearing in 1918.
Chenhang Ballads and Proverbs
The Chenhang ballads and proverbs listed as the first batch of intangible cultural heritage of Shanghai in 2007.
03 · Regional Records & Related Items
Shanghai proverbs are one of the several famous dialect proverb collections of China. Their content touches such great categories as current affairs, cultivation, reasoning, social intercourse, life, local conditions, production and nature, full of the rich wisdom and general experience of the local people of successive ages. Here the administrative divisions were stable and the local people long held that in trade one does not go beyond Suzhou and Hangzhou and in office one always stays in the home town, forming a relatively closed cultural space. The local people's attitude to life is optimistic and their speech full of wit, and every village has not a few who can sing and tell well. Chenhang proverbs come from the life of the people; with very plain yet witty speech they condense the local ways and customs, comment on the good and evil, beauty and ugliness of the ways of the world, reflect each one's joys and sorrows and regulate neighbourhood relations, both rich in the distinctive charm of oral literature and highlighting the wisdom and virtue of the local people. Several generations of local leisurely inquirers into custom have made full and accurate records, making their transmission more orderly and profound.
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04 · Cultural Value & Contemporary Safeguarding
Shanghai proverbs are one of the several famous dialect proverb collections of China; their content touches such great categories as current affairs, cultivation, reasoning, social intercourse, life, local conditions, production and nature, full of the rich wisdom and general experience of the local people of successive ages.
05 · Associated Representative Bearers
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06 · Authoritative Sources & Bibliography
Sources
China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network (ihchina.cn)
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