It is derogatory to call Putian people A Shao, because Putian people like to use the dialect of Shaoli Diyou to curse people. Over time, in order to retaliate against Putian people, people started to call Shaoli Di you. I removed the word "Li Di You" and added "A" which means a bit honest. Later I found out that the Linxian people who didn't know the original intention all called the Putian people "A Shao". Fortunately, our fellow villagers were very cheerful and never cared about it, so it became a matter of course. There is another explanation for Ah Shao in southern Fujian, which means honest and honest. In fact, Putian people are very smart. They have produced many celebrities and number one scholars in the past dynasties. Putian people are good at doing business and entities. What A Shao calls him is untrue. We don’t have the capital to call people that way anymore.

Captain Min from Putian will answer

"A Shao" can also be "A Sao", which is an adjective, not a noun.

When a person calls someone "a Sao" with dissatisfaction, it has a derogatory meaning: it means that a person is naughty and cunning, loves to make trouble with others, and is annoying to others.

If you call someone "Assao" in a joking tone, it is a compliment: it means that someone is lively and cute and will make people happy.

So the person who asked the question about a young man named Putian is wrong. It's just that some people are more "Asao", and there are "Asao" people in every region.

Outsiders call people in Putian "Ah Shao". Strictly speaking, it is a derogatory term. In Putian vocabulary, "Ah Shao" is a commonly used word, used to describe a person who is cunning, clever, and not serious enough.

Literally speaking, there is an "Ashao" in every place, which is not unique to Putian people.

Therefore, it is neither accurate nor fair to refer to Putian people as "Ashao".

I hope everyone will abandon their prejudice against Putian people, live in harmony, and stop saying bad things about each other.

As a Putian person, this question should be to call Putian people A Sao, not A Shao. I think the above answers are all a bit biased. Why do people in Putian call people Asao in other places? First of all, the catchphrase of us Putian people is "Sao", "You nest me, I am Sao", "Diya Sao", etc. are always uttered, so people outside will call them "Sao". People in Putian call it Asao

Shao, which should be Sao, comes from the curse word di u gua sao. In the same way, people in Fuzhou say sa ni nei, and people in southern Fujian say sai nin mu. Because Putian people pronounce s with a lateral sound (Xianyou people pronounce it with an alveolar sound), it sounds very special. In addition, everyone uses this kind of swear word in their mouths. It must be used once in two or three sentences, and people from other places just give it. Putian people gave him the derogatory name of "Asao".

The word Asao is mainly a disparaging name used by Quanzhou people (mainly Jinjiang and Shishi) for Putian people for a long time. They think that Putian people are country people, Putian people are poor, and Putian people have no quality. . In the past decade or so, Putian's urban construction has developed rapidly, and Putian's rural areas have developed rapidly. Luxury houses and luxury cars are no less than those of Jinjiang Shishi. Quanzhou people's impression of Putian people has particularly improved in recent years. The younger generation has almost no contempt for Putian people. . And people over the age of 40 or 50 still have a more or less stubborn impression of Putian people as poor!

Asao is a derogatory term, but Chinese people’s speech depends on the occasion. When good friends chat privately, joking about Asao is a way of expressing a close relationship. When I was young, I worked in Fuzhou government agencies. Those whose ancestral home was Putian were often called Asao, and those from Fuqing were called Fuqing (gun) brother, which was not meant to be derogatory. On the other hand, people in Shanghai refer to people from northern Jiangsu as people from Jiangbei, with full contempt. If it is Quanjiang (Gang), that is, both parents are from Northern Jiangsu, it will be difficult to even find a partner. Putian people were not discriminated against in Shanghai in the past because Putian people were good at studying and worked as teachers in Shanghai universities, researchers in research institutes, and there were many doctors in hospitals with higher grades. Nowadays, hehehe

Putian Asao is a disparaging name specially created by Quanzhou people (especially Jinjiang and Shishi) for Putian people. It means that Putian's economy is backward, Putian people are poor, Putian people have no quality, etc.!

It means slippery in Putian dialect

This is the Putian dialect. Ashao refers to an unmarried young man. The young man from Putian means the handsome guy from Putian.