Examples of classic sayings that fish cannot live without water:

1. "Who said that fish are happy in water, but when water is exhausted, fish wither their scales." ([Tang Dynasty] Meng Jiao's "Meng Dongye Poetry Collection" Volume 6 "Gift to Li Guan")

2. "The vastness is like water, and the nurturing fish is like fish. I don't have a house, but you call me to live in it?" ("The Book of Songs")

3. "I have never seen fish in the river. Yesterday the water was lost and today it is dry." ([Qing Dynasty] Shen Jiyou's "Li Poetry Series" Volume 25, Xiang Longxi's "Dry Fish Weeping across the River")

4. "When a dead fish crosses the river and weeps, when will it come back? Write a book and tell the fish to be careful when entering and exiting!" ([Song Dynasty] Guo Maoqian's "Dry Fish Crossing the River Weeping" in "Yuefu Poems")

5. Chairman Mao wrote in "Situation in the Summer of 1957", Volume 4 of "Selected Works of Mao Zedong": "The relationship between the party and the masses is like the relationship between fish and water. If the relationship between the party and the masses is not good, it is impossible to build a socialist system; society Even if the socialist system is established, it cannot be consolidated.”

6. There are only one fish in the river, and one fish eats the same bait.

7. If the water is as clear as a mirror, fishing will not work; if the water is like mud, fishing will be useless.

8. Catch big fish in deep water and small fish in shallow water.

9. If it is deep and muddy, fish should be fished close, while if it is clear and shallow, fish should be fished far away.

20. An inch of fishing line is weak and the length of silk is useless.

11. There are no fish in clear water, but fishing in muddy water is easy to fish if it is not clear and muddy.

12. A drop of water during Qingming Festival, a fish in the river.