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Common sayings are colloquial and popular language units created by the masses in Chinese vocabulary, and are popular and widely popular stereotyped sentences, concise and visualized, and most of them are created by working people. Reflect people's life experiences and aspirations.
proverbs, also known as common sayings, are synonyms. The word common saying has been widely used as a linguistic term; As the saying goes, it has the color of classical Chinese; As the saying goes, there is a colloquial flavor. Proverbs make people's communication more convenient and interesting, with local characteristics.
As one of the idioms, common sayings refer to established, widely popular and concise sentences. Broadly speaking, common sayings include proverbs, two-part allegorical sayings, idioms and commonly used oral idioms, but they do not include dialects, common sayings, idioms in written language, or famous sayings and epigrams in famous works.
In a narrow sense, common sayings are one of the genres with their own characteristics, which are different from proverbs and two-part allegorical sayings, but some common sayings are in between. Proverbs come from a wide range of sources, not only from the oral creation of the people, but also from famous poems, aphorisms, historical allusions and so on.