The classic teahouse lines are:

1. Let’s not talk about state affairs.

2. If you want to show your prestige, go with foreigners, foreigners are powerful.

3. What our Qing Dynasty has is a mountain of gold and silver, which will never be exhausted.

4. If I didn’t help him, he might not be able to find a buyer?

5. When working on the street, popularity is the most important thing.

6. I see, the Qing Dynasty is about to end!

7. Let me tell you, whoever dares to change the constitution of our ancestors will lose their head!

8. I love the Qing Dynasty, but I am afraid that it will end.

9. If a bannerman is a traitor, your crime will be increased!

10. Improve and improve, the more you change, the cooler it gets!

11. I’d better keep my pigtails. What if it changes the emperor’s hair back again?

12. No one can bear it these days.

13. Everything is improved, so why isn’t my salary improved?

14. Anyway, I have seen through it all. Sooner or later, I will either die of exhaustion or be bombarded to death.

15. Fight, fight, fight today, fight tomorrow, fight the hell, what can you fight?

16. The smoke of the British Empire and the white face of Japan. Two powerful countries are waiting for me. How small is this blessing?

17. The Qing Dynasty may not necessarily be a good country, but when we arrived in the Republic of China, we suffered from hunger.

18. After I came out of prison, I joined the Boxer Rebellion, but after all the trouble, the Qing Dynasty finally perished, and it deserved to die!

19. When there was an emperor, we served the emperor; when there was President Yuan, we served President Yuan; now, we serve whoever gives us food.

20. Nowadays, even we are in debt, and we have to take people every day so that we can get some subsidies.