1. Be filial to your children and not as good as a married couple.

2. A son who is an official is not as good as a husband who is a beggar.

3. The mother-in-law cannot live without the old man’s house.

4. Wearing shabby clothes will make you a wife when you are old.

5. The older the sugarcane becomes, the sweeter it becomes, and the older the couple grows, the more they love each other.

6. Young couples are as sweet as honey, and old couples are as gluey as paint.

7. The sun and the moon grow old together in the sky, and the husband and wife grow old together in the earth.

8. When you are young, your wife comes to keep you company.

9. A father-in-law never leaves his mother-in-law, a scale never leaves its weight, and chopsticks never leave its basket.

10. Eight pieces of clothing are not worth one cotton-padded jacket, and eight sons are not worth one old man.

11. It is better to eat well and dress well than to grow old together.

12. If a husband and wife are in love, they will be a couple even if they beg for food and fight snakes; if a husband and wife are not in harmony, they will break up if they are an official or a government official.

13. The faces of couples, the days of February, April and August.

14. The moon will be round when it comes up, and young couples quarreling is just for fun.

15. When a couple fights, they don’t hold grudges, and they have a flowery pillow.

16. When a couple quarrels, turn around on your own.

17. Men are like fire, women are like water.

18. Fighting between couples is common, but fighting between neighbors is troublesome.

19. It is difficult for an upright official to settle household affairs, and it is difficult for an old man to settle a couple.

20. The young couple plays tricks; the old couple gets angry.

21. If you have a good wife in your family, you will be harmonious throughout your life.

22. When a husband and wife are in harmony, the whole family is happy; when a husband and wife quarrel, the young and old run away.

23. The more the couple fights, the more they fight, the more they suffer.

24. Hot and cold couples are always together, but intense couples never come to an end.

25. Men are honest and avoid disputes, while women are wise and have a harmonious family.

26. A virtuous wife brings few troubles to her husband, and a son is filial to his mother and has a generous heart.

27. A strand of hair can tie up a fierce tiger, and a good woman can persuade a male general to become a bad guy.

28. The good rice is half the grain, and the good wife is half the blessing.

29. A good dish is worth half of the rice, and a good wife is worth half to the husband.

30. The family has a thousand catties load, and the wife carries five hundred catties.

31. Men’s wisdom, women’s wisdom.

32. A foolish man fears his wife, but a wise woman respects her husband.

33. The mother-in-law controls the men, and the jars are full of gold and silver.

34. A well-versed woman can untie a man’s grievances.

35. A good man has three gangs, and a wife has a pair of hands.

36. The wife is stupid and the family is poor. A good patch on the shoulder, a good woman at home.

37. A virtuous wife is half blessed, but a coward wife looks up to the sky and cries.

38. An ugly wife with a thin field is a treasure for the poor; a beautiful wife with a fat field is the source of trouble.

39. If there is a good wife at home, no bad things will happen to the man; if there is a bad wife at home, the man will go to jail.

40. Ragged clothes can keep out the cold, and a bran wife can take care of the house.

41. Good cotton spins good yarn, and a good wife manages a good home.

42. Men can succeed if they have their own ideas, and women can prosper if they are ambitious.

43. When the husband walks in front of others, he takes his wife with both hands.

44. Don’t look at the man’s wife, only look at the man’s clothes.

45. A well-dressed husband means a good wife at home.

46. Shoes that satisfy my wife.

47. The boat can be steered, but the husband must be harmonious.

48. A bushel of wheat and a bushel of noodles are noble and cheap.

49. It is better to offend the city god in the temple than to offend the woman in the house.

50. A good dog does not harpoon a chicken, and a good husband does not beat his wife.

51. A crazy woman does not think her husband is poor, and a poor man does not think his wife is ugly.

52. If there is an ugly wife at home, there will be treasures in the house.

53. The family has three treasures: a skinny farm, an ugly wife, and a shabby cotton-padded jacket.

54. It doesn’t matter whether the couple is ugly or not, but it doesn’t matter if the clothes are torn with double threads.

55. Cover your body with warm coarse cloth, live in love and get married.

56. When you wear clothes, you should still make home clothes, and when you spend the night, you should still be a couple.

57. Father and son cannot be together without injustice, and husband and wife cannot be together without affection.

58. A husband and wife are in the same boat, and they help each other when they are in trouble.

59. Friends in times of need are kind, and couples in times of need are kind.

60. Friends are friends when they have food and wine; they are husband and wife when they are without firewood or rice.