What is a “millet chick” actually? Everyone thinks it’s just a CHICKEN
An idiom is a set of familiar, fixed words whose meanings often cannot be explained simply by the meanings of the words that make them up. Idioms are short, concise, symbolic, highly expressive and are widely used in speech as well as in composing Vietnamese literature and poetry. However, for a number of reasons such as pronunciation, pronunciation, etc., some proverbs today are used incorrectly compared to the original.
In addition, a number of idioms have so far not been confirmed in the most accurate explanations of the things and events mentioned in them. The idiom “cuckoo, millet” is an example. Everyone knows that “the chicken, the millet” (the variation of the “chicken goose goat”) is a rambling, long-winded story without any topic. However, the debate about what the “chicken” child is, although it is sometimes “dissected” but still has no final answer.
There is an opinion that “cà” is a chicken in the old Vietnamese way of saying, and “ke” is also a chicken in the Sino-Vietnamese sense.
There is an opinion that “cà” is a chicken in the old Vietnamese way of saying, and “ke” is also a chicken in the Sino-Vietnamese sense. Folklore researcher Nguyen Hung Vi explained: The Chinese sound of the chicken is millet, the Muong language is kha, the Nghe Tinh language is ga, the ancient sound is assimilated with ca, ca. “The chicken, the millet” is saying the same thing over and over again, lengthy, vicious and repetitive, “all the chickens come back… the chicken”.
The second opinion is that “ca” and “millet” here are actually two types of plants. Le Gia in the book “1575 idioms and proverbs that need further discussion” explains: Eggplant and millet flower are two things that “have a lot of seeds”, when sown, they grow a lot of seedlings and are often called “conifers, children”. millet”, to “refer to the procreation of too much, often used to refer to many things, many things happening”. And to say “the chicken, the millet” is to say the great ocean, to say more than necessary.
In addition, the version of “chicken, goat and goose” gives us more evidence to affirm that “coffee and millet” cannot “all be chickens”. Because if so, the version of “cà mi, goose-goat” must be “ca mi, goose-goat” to be true to the meaning of the roundabout, end the ca (chicken) story and then return to the chicken, the goat story and the goat story again. positive).
Another opinion is that the expression “con ca, con millet” uses the French word caquet (transliterated as “ca kê”), indicating the sound of chicken coo, figuratively three flowers. “Cà ke” is the Vietnameseized reading of this word. So far, it has not been possible to confirm which of the above explanations is the most correct.
Some other proverbs and idioms talk about cleverness in communication:
– Speaking close to speaking real words: No need to say roundabouts, long without getting to the point, speak honestly, concisely, concisely and easy to understand.
– If you drink a lot of wine, you will get drunk / A wise person who talks a lot, even if it is good, is boring: Talking a lot, talking tough is easy to become foolish, not only has no effect but also brings punishment to the body.
– Wise people don’t talk much/ A wise man says a few things: The ancients thought that talking a lot is not necessarily a knowledgeable person, but sometimes it’s because the “empty box makes a loud noise”.
– Stumbled, struggled to fit / Lost mouth, know what to say now: The proverb wants to say that we should be careful in our words, once we swear, we can’t take it back.
– A wise man speaks half-heartedly / Let the foolish half rejoice and half worry: A wise person in the big sense is to help the world, in the small sense must at least have a clear idea about anything. But the Vietnamese way is not like that! The purpose of wisdom is not to present ideas or wisdom, but to live a superior life.
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