folk saying about how people determine the price of rice. One shoots an arrow at a rock in a cave. If the arrow lands at a dark, shaded part of the rock, then the price of rice will be high.
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五蓋山鄉人占年諺
湘中記
五蓋雪普。米賤如土。雪若不均。米貴如銀。A folk saying concerning how people predict the price of rice in the Five Peak Mountains area. If all of the five peaks are covered with snow, then the price of rice will be low.
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占霧諺
湘中記
臘月有霧露。無水做酒醋。
It there are fog and dew in the lunar month of December, then there will be a drought in the following year, so severe that there will be no water with which to make vinegar and wine.
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堯峰院俗語
吳郡圖經
堯所基。洪川不能沒。上有萬眾棲。Words said about the location of Yao Fong Temple. It is high up in a mountain where a river’s flood cannot possibly reach. There are thousands of people living up there, too.
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錫山古謠
常州圖經
有錫兵。無錫寧。
A folk saying concering Tin mountain. If there is mining of tin, there is war; if there is no mining of tin, there is peace.
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京口士大夫語
嘉定鎮江志
生居洛陽。死葬朱方。
Words said by the intellectuals in the capital city of Luo Yang concerning their choice of burial sites, which were in the southeast coast of China.
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鞭春看燈里諺
至順鎮江志
好男勿鞭春。好女勿看燈。
Concerning customs of the Chinese new year in the Zhen Jiang area: on the first day of spring, men should not go to see the whipping of the cow,since they might be trampled to death by the crowd trying to catch pieces of the animal. Likewise, women should not go to the light show because of the crowd there.
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