"The heavenly king covers the earth and the tiger, and the river demon in Baota Town" is a fragment of the Peking Opera "Taking Tiger Mountain Outward", which is exactly slang. As the saying goes: shrimp has a shrimp road, crab has a crab road, and which mountain to talk about. When dealing with each other, you can't help but talk about each other's jargon. Bandit slang belongs to the most active and vital part of language.
Indeed, if the imagination is not particularly rich and the brain is wide open, most people can't think of such a meaning that has nothing to do with the literal eight-shot. One of the most well-known slang words must be the phrase "The River Demon in Baota Town, Heavenly King Gaidi Tiger", which many people can blurt out, but few people know the specific meaning.
Heavenly King Gai Di Hu, the source of the river demon in Baota Town.
Slang is a special way of communication, which can determine the identity of the other party, convey important information, avoid some homophones, and the most important thing is to unify thoughts. In the TV series, it is also because of Yang Zirong's skillful slang that he can penetrate into the enemy's interior and successfully catch a mountain carving.
After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jianghu slang began to be popular among the people. This argot, also known as incision and spring spot, has its unique organizational secrecy and is widely used by many gangs, among which the literary work Lin Hai Xue Yuan is the most widely spread.