The common proverbs used by primary school students are as follows:

1. People need to be nourished by grains, and fields need to be grown by dung.

2. Temporary strength or weakness depends on strength, and eternal victory or defeat depends on reason.

3. A horse is good because of its bark, and a person is beautiful because of his appearance.

4. Close neighbors should not be separated, and distant friends should not be separated.

5. Commonly used iron is stainless, and people who practice it regularly will not get sick.

6. It’s all ginger but not spicy, and it’s all pepper but not numb.

7. The more the well is dug, the clearer the water becomes; the more things are laid out, the clearer the reason becomes.

8. The pig’s head is rotten by the fire, but the money is used for official business.

9. The father hopes that the son will become a dragon, and the son hopes that the father will ascend to heaven.

10. If you get fat first, you won’t get fat. If you get fat later, you will collapse the bed.

Xiehouyu

Xiehouyu is a kind of folk proverb with a unique artistic structure. It consists of two parts. The first part is the pretext, which is a metaphor; the second part is the target language, which is the explanation. Divided into two types: meaning and harmony. Homophones for the idiom, for example: green onion mixed with tofu - one green (clear) and two white; meaning idiom, for example: fifteen buckets to fetch water - seven up and eight down.

Xiehouyu is mainly used to express certain situations in life and certain psychological states of people, such as "A sesame falls into the eye of a needle - what a coincidence." It is often humorous and ironic, such as "Tiger wears beads - fake compassion". It is a metaphorical image, sharp in sarcasm, and very expressive. Some people even compare the idioms to "essays" in the proverb.