What is bandit slang? How many bandits slang?
Slang, also known as incision, is itself a Jianghu argot developed by some industries for confidentiality. From the moment it was born, it was illegal. Not just bandits. As early as the Tang Dynasty, there were argots and slang words in the Jianghu, which were used to keep secrets. By the end of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, slang was widely used and developed because of the chaos in the country and the prevalence of gangs and bandits. Among them, the northeast bandit slang is the most famous.
After the Qing government lifted the ban at the end of the Qing Dynasty, poor farmers in Shanhaiguan rushed to marry and have children, and the population of the three northeastern provinces began to be dense. However, due to the corrupt Qing government's failure to effectively govern the Northeast, the chaotic Northeast is full of bandits, and the slang of bandits is also popular, which has become a common jargon among bandits.
Bandit slang involves almost every aspect of life. If you really want to finish it all, it is estimated that you can't finish a book. Let's take the bandit slang in the most famous "Lin Yuan" as an example to briefly understand the meaning of bandit slang that has prevailed in Northeast China for decades.
It can be called "Heavenly King Gaihudi, the snake demon in Baota town", which means that the mountain carving asks: How dare you come to anger your ancestors (Heavenly King Gaihudi)? Yang Zirong answers: If you ask me that I fell from the mountain and drowned in the river (the snake demon in Baota town).
Others, such as trains as "big ships", friends as "shoulder to shoulder", drinking as "moving volcanoes", retreating as "speed skating", people surnamed Hu as "Gu Yue Maner" and so on. See here, is there a feeling of an epiphany? Northeast bandits are not fabricated out of thin air, which is more similar to metonymy rhetoric. Almost every slang word comes from daily life.
Although we can't understand slang directly, if we have an explanation, we will suddenly realize it. Just as we use another word to avoid or avoid something in our life, the slang of bandits in Northeast China is more thorough and therefore more mysterious.