Who knows the gangster code words?

The code words and poetry of Hong Kong’s underworld are mainly inherited from China’s Hongmen organization. The Chinese Hongmen organization aims to "anti-Qing and restore Ming", so its actions must be extremely secretive. In order to easily distinguish between ourselves and the enemy, Hongmen figures have formulated a set of poems and code words to replace the common politeness when contacting each other. This set of poetic code words has been modified by the Hong Kong gangsters and added with the phonology of Cantonese, and it has become a gangster language with its own characteristics.

For those who are formally admitted to the Hong Kong triad organization by Big Brother, they must teach some common question-and-answer poems and gestures when they first arrive, which are called "passings". Otherwise, they will be questioned by other black people and will not know the answers. When doing so, they are often accused of being a "countryman" and may even be severely beaten. Therefore, you must be familiar with the gestures of "Bao" and "Seal" as well as the four poems of "Wind", "Liu", "Bao" and "Seal", as well as the position of "Crossing Five Passes", etc., in order to become an orthodox "black character" .

Question: Are you from your company (or ‘Gushi’)? Answer: I am from ‘Lao Wai’ (also known as ‘Wai Zui’ because the mouth of the characters ‘ and ‘ is on the side).

Question: Who is your ‘big boss’, who is your ‘top man’? Answer: ××× is my ‘big boss’, and ××× is my ‘top man’.

(The so-called 'big brother' is the eldest brother who directly accepts himself as a 'disciple'. As for the 'top master', he is the 'incense master' when he joins the association and opens the incense hall. If he belongs to the 'hanging blue lantern' If there are "people and horses", there are only "big guys" but no "top masters"). At this point, the interrogator will further ask the person being interrogated to hand over the 'treasure' and 'seal'. If the person being interrogated despises the other party, he can also retort with a straight face: 'You are so virtuous and capable that you want me to hand over the 'treasure'. If the other party has a large number of people and has to surrender in front of the power, then the only option is to be humble and hand over the 'treasure' and the 'seal'.

The so-called 'bao' means making a fist with the left hand and raising the middle finger alone. 'Yin' means putting the thumb, index finger and ring finger of the right hand together, usually left first, then right, and 'bao' first. 'Post' seal'. When things develop to this point, if there is no grudge between the two parties and the interrogator doesn't want to make the matter bigger, it will stop here. If he intends to cause trouble, he will continue to interrogate 'Feng', 'Liu', and 'Bao'. 'Print' four poems.

Wind Poetry: Say I am the wind, not the wind. The five colored flags are in the middle of the fight. The dragon, tiger, turtle, snake on the left, the tiger, longevity, and the same on the right. The content of the wind poem is to describe the wooden poplar set up when opening the incense hall. City', of which fifteen sides represent the "handsome flag" characters of the five ancestors of the front, middle and back.

Liu Shi: Say I am flowing or not. The three rivers have merged. The water has flowed for thousands of years. The five lakes have merged into the three rivers. The water is locked in iron locks. Shen Jiao will come forward. Hong Kong triad organizations are also called "triads". We often write about them in newspapers. Seeing reports that the accused are members of the "Triads", some people think that the explanation of "Triads" refers only to the Hongmen organization in Guangdong, because there are three rivers in Guangdong Province: Dongjiang, Xijiang, and Beijiang. But another explanation points out that the name "Triad" originated from the failure of the Hongmen uprising led by Chen Jinnan, the first incense master of Hongmen, who died in Gaoxi Temple in Huizhou, Guangdong Province. His disciples supported God Bless Hong (originally named Su Hongguang). ) continued to confront the Qing court. It is believed that the weather, location, and people were just right at that time, so it is also called the "Triad".

Baoshi: One bay after another. My family originally lived in Wuzhishan. I was looking for my sister-in-law. There was a third room on the left and right of the temple. In the 11th year of Yongzheng's reign, Hongmen leader Zheng Junda, his wife Guo Xiuying and his sister Zheng Yulan. He led his troops to fight guerrilla warfare against the Qing soldiers and traveled through several provinces. Zheng Junda was killed by the Qing soldiers. Guo Xiuying and Zheng Yulan's aunts still led the crowd to resist, and were later besieged by Qing soldiers near Xiangyang, Hubei Province. Unwilling to suffer the humiliation of being captured, the two aunts committed suicide by throwing themselves into the river. Fisherman Xie Bangheng picked up their bodies and buried them with ceremonial funerals. The aunt's grave and the aunt's temple were built by the river. Some of the remaining disciples moved to Wuzhi Mountain on Hainan Island. After hearing the news, they rushed to worship. This "Bao" poem most likely describes this incident.

Imprint poem: If you ask, the two or four heads of the seal are arranged in a triangle to set a good date. The golden orchid symbolizes the co-operation of the leader and his accession to the throne. Forced to break out of the siege, he left a poem to everyone in order to make a comeback: "Five people separated in a poem, and no one knew about their greatness. This incident was passed on to the brothers, and later they met and reunited" as a sign of recognition. Since the day of the breakout was the 24th day of the first lunar month, the thumb, index finger and ring finger of the right hand were put together as a record. The content of the "printed poem" is related to this legend. )

Underworld figures question each other, and this usually ends.

But there are also people who ask about "passing the five passes". The so-called "passing the five passes" means that the right hand is divided from the shoulder to the palm into five parts and five names.

When the person being questioned passes the five passes , you need to make a circle with the thumb and index finger of your left hand, and straighten the other three fingers. This is called "three and a half sticks of incense". Then place your left hand on the parts pointed out in the picture on your right hand, and read out the names from top to bottom, so Named 'passing five levels'.

‘Gaoxi Temple’: refers to the tribe of Chen Jinnan, the incense master of Hongmen, who once swore an oath to fight against the Qing soldiers at the Gaoxi Temple near Xunyou Town, Huizhou, Guangdong.

‘Wulonggang’: refers to the fact that when the Qing court burned the Shaolin Temple, five of the monks escaped. When they arrived at Wulonggang, they were almost chased by the Qing soldiers, but fortunately they fought bravely and escaped. In fact, no one can confirm the location of the Oolong Post, and it may just be a legend. There is also a theory that Hongmen leader Wan Yunlong died in the battle and was buried in Wulonggang.

'Cheung Sha Wan': It is not Cheung Sha Wan in Kowloon, but when the Shaolin Temple was burned, 18 monks escaped and fled. When they fled to 'Cheung Sha Wan', 13 people died in the battle and only the remaining Cai Dezhong, Fang Dahong, Hu Dedi, Ma Chaoxing and Li Shikai were the "first five ancestors" of Hongmen. When the Qing soldiers approached again, there was an "Erban Bridge" on the river, and the five people took shelter under the bridge. Survived arrest.

‘Er Banqiao‘: The explanation is the same as above.

See above for the explanation of ‘aunt’s grave’.

This kind of cross-examination between black people does not always occur when two organizations meet and conflict. There are also frictions between two organizations. When they meet to "talk about numbers", in order to avoid "Yanggu" ’ (Non-black people are involved), they will first conduct a cross-examination to prove that the people present are indeed of the same kind, and then the negotiation will begin.

Here are some excerpts from poems about underworld culture: Poem for protecting girls: (i.e., accepting female disciples)

When the sun rises in the east, a little red lotus is placed in the middle of the road. The sworn brother picks flowers elsewhere. This flower is just a golden orchid planted by the Hong family to form a bond of friendship. Poem: (Each line is a word of the poem's title)

Two piles of sand beside the waist of the King of Human Beings Grass grows on the east gate wall, silk thread threads needles, eleven mouthfuls of fine wine, lamb is my family knife Poem: This knife is not extraordinary The sword is the loyalty of the Hongmen. The sword will not offend the brother Mao and kill all the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty. A high-spirited social poem: The hair is still wet. He was born in a poor family and read the Five Classics. Wanwang's sworn brother came to give instructions. I still remember the time when the sworn brotherhood was established in Huating. The bottom poem: (Big bottom : that is, straw sandals, paper fans, red sticks and other figures)

Dragon head, phoenix tail, blue sky, a pinch of heart fragrance, the golden orchid sun and red flower pavilion in front of the master, I went first, "He Sheng He" Signature poem: The main hall Name and victory, the gold-lettered signboard with black paint is not afraid of wind and rain for sixty years with Tianqi's "Fourteenth K" signature poem: The dragon and the phoenix dance to cheer up the family. As soon as the sign is dispatched, Tianting K and the golden Fourteenth are marked as a symbol to ensure that China enjoys peace. Below is a list of the commonly used 'backwords' of the Hong Kong underworld in categories (explanations are in parentheses): (1) Daily necessities: shawl (shirt), horizontal corner (trousers), walking on the street (shoes), horizontal sole (underpants), super thread ( Glasses) Matches (gold branches) Birds (cigarettes) Helmets (caps) Kongming (lanterns) Floating (boats) Lotus (bowls) Dried sheets (paper)

Mao's poems (Rishi) Anchor flowers (spoon) Play with flowers (chopsticks) Big tile (quilt) Wheel (phone) Egg (watch) Yellow finger (ring) Green (knife) Dog (gun) Grid (house) Bone (door) Exploding bone (Open the door) Rare (medicine) Goose feather ( Fan) drag water (in hand) flower (letter) yellow circle (gold bracelet)

(2) food melon (pig) vegetable (cow) tail (fish) sand (rice) plowing sand ( Eating) Banlian (drinking tea) Qinglian (tea) Sweeping (smoking opium) Beer ashes (sucking white powder) Killing ashes (quitting white powder) Playing Bozai (sucking red pills) Genghan (taking medicine)

(3) Titles like Lao Lin or Yang Gu (non-triad figures) Huayao (police) Che (detective) Bai Li (traffic police) Tianpai (father) Dipai (mother) Tiaonu (girlfriend) Tiao Zai (boyfriend) Ji Lao (woman) Liu Ji (prison guard) Lao Biao (sibling) Hui Dou (foreigner) Gold Finger (police informant)

Lao Dao (drug addict) Baokou Zai (actor) Laoji (reporter) Laozhuang (lawyer) uncle (specially used by old men, that is, the target of being deceived)

(4) Others Baojiang (bleeding) suffer (imprisonment) Yilu ( One Year) Mo (Judgment) Crossing the River (Crossing the Sea) Guizhi (Hong Kong) Majiao (Macau) Daquan (Guangzhou) Opening (Fighting) Super (Watching) Cabinet (Anus) Upset (Enter the House of No One) Shoplifting) Baorege (burglary into an occupied house) Moqi (clothing theft) Wenque (pickpocket)

Gaomai (stealing store goods) Tiaoliuhan (selling counterfeit medicine) biting old softies (*women Eating) Boiling Lao Lin (temporarily practicing a legitimate profession) Tuodi (local) Mounting a horse (opening an incense hall to accept disciples) Sunbathing (sleeping) Lao Li (robbery)

Reporting a crime (reporting a crime) One pound (one hundred Yuan) A building (one thousand yuan) One plate or one mosquito (10,000 yuan) Put a pile (defecate) Put a willow (pee) Put a tin (Ding Yu) Make grass (commit a crime and then flee elsewhere) Botou (reappear again) )

Ancestral Hall (Stanley Prison) Lao Zhi (Chi Chi Wan Prison) Lao Yu (Victoria Reception Center) Shou Ge (Police Station Detention Center) Beat the Eight Claws (Fingerprinting) Yi Jian (Commit a Crime Once )Yuyou (kill people) speculate a thousand pieces (copy theater tickets or boat tickets) seafood stall (open a street gambling stall) Lungu (lose money in gambling) jian (true meaning) flow (false meaning) flow a thousand pieces (counterfeit money) castrate (Has become a member of the underworld) Geshi (underworld unit) Dog bite (gunshot wound) Mashi (less) step on (more) Xianpai (female who sells her lust) Baomaba (open a house) Print (possess the woman) Take off (rebellion) ) Qing (referring to another woman’s husband) Lai Shi (missed) Du Ye (handcuffs) put in the book (imprisoned) out of the book (released from prison)

The back language used by the Hong Kong underworld is similar to that in the past in China Gang organizations such as "Hong Gang", "Qing Gang" and "Pao Brother" are completely different. This may be due to dialect differences. The Hong Kong gangs and Guangzhou gangs also have different backing languages. This may be another reason for the Hong Kong gangs to adapt to the Hong Kong environment. 'Innovative' performance in.

But in terms of numbers, the two places are pronounced as one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten respectively as Liu, Yue, Wang, Zhe, Zhong, Chen. Star, Zhang, Ya and Bamboo are completely the same.

Because everything the Hong Kong triad does is contrary to the normal moral norms, laws and regulations of society, and is not tolerated by society, its way of existence and its development are completely different from ordinary organizations.

The organizational system and poetic codewords have also been continuously inherited. From its organizational system and poetic codewords, we cannot directly see the inevitable relationship between them and the various crimes committed by the underworld, but we can What is certain is that when an ordinary person formally enters the underworld and becomes a member, he must consciously or unconsciously learn and accept the organizational norms of the underworld. When he agrees (voluntarily or involuntarily) with these norms, he becomes familiar with them. After adopting this cultural form, he will inevitably imitate the behavior of those who accepted this culture earlier than him and commit many crimes. This is the assimilation power of gang culture. In addition to the greed of the members themselves and the evil attributes of satisfying their own desires by any means necessary, the power of this culture is more penetrating and contagious