"Eight Scenic Spots of Chaozhou is Very Romantic"

The Eight Scenery of Chaozhou is very romantic, with eighteen shuttle boats and twenty-four continents①; twenty-four towers with twenty-four kinds, two rasps and one gliding cow②. The eight sceneries of Chaozhou are very good, including twenty-four eighteen-shuttle boats; twenty-four kinds of towers, two rasps and one cow. [Solution] This is a song about Guangji Bridge in Chaozhou.

[Note] Eighteen Shuttle Boats and Twenty-four Continents: There are no bridge piers in the center of the Guangji Bridge, and 18 shuttle-shaped wooden boats are connected to form the bridge. ② There were originally two cows made of pig iron on the Guangji Bridge. The trendy people called them "thorium [sên1] cows". Later, a flood occurred and one of them was washed away. ③ Kicking [tig4 to5]: play, have fun. [Rhyme] Lines 1, 2, and 4 of the first chapter rhyme with [iu] (worry); lines 1, 2, and 4 of the second chapter rhyme with [o] (nest). [Selected from] "Commentary on Complete Chaoshan Dialect Ballads" No. 858/Page 382.