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What are four fragrances, four hard, four soft and four stinks?

Four major fragrances: cage sleep, newly-married wife, girl's tongue and stewed chicken.

Four Smells: Dumping a shit can, taking out a toilet, dung beetles farting, and rubbing athlete's foot.

Four hardnesses: doorways, wind, wild bristles, drunkard's tongue, railway nails.

Four softness: wheat straw pile, cotton bag, crystal persimmon, pig urine bubble.

These are all rural slang. Rural culture covers everything except common sayings, old sayings and proverbs. These slang words are expressed by farmers in the most popular language according to their own experiences, people and things around them. There are many kinds of rural slang, the most representative of which is the "Big Four" slang.

With the changes of the times, these "four big" slang words are almost lost and can only be heard from the old rural population. Let's listen to what they call the "Big Four".

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"Big Four" in rural areas:

Four major acids: unripe jujube, hawthorn honey, bitch fighting for wind, Shanxi vinegar.

Four sugars: sugar eggs, honeypots, sand pulp watermelons, and money strings.

Four major pains: pig gall, coptis noodles, motherless children, bachelor.

Four spicy: green radish, purple garlic, upturned wife, bow your head.

Four astringents: raw plums, walnut skins, green persimmons on trees and small pears.

Four salty: alkaline earth, East China Sea water, pickle jar, ghosts in sauce.

Four major fragrances: cage sleep, newly-married wife, girl's tongue and stewed chicken.

Four Smells: Dumping a shit can, taking out a toilet, dung beetles farting, and rubbing athlete's foot.

Four fishy smells: seaside wind, crab soup, porridge cooked by small fish, and marinated shrimp sauce.

The four nests are: sheep dung, sheepfold stuffing, cooked sheepskin and sheep eggs.

Four fresh: peeled onion, lotus root with top flower, newly married daughter-in-law, jar wine.

Four beauties: peacocks, butterflies, married women and embroidered shoes.

Four poisons: consistent flow, clever words, scorpion tail and stepmother's heart.

Four blacks: coal hole, bottom ash, old donkey's ass and rich man's heart.

There are four kinds of horror: the cat barking in spring, the cat laughing at night, the centipede under the quilt and the wolf howling.

Four evils: kicking a widow's door, digging a tramp's grave, hurting people in the back, plowing the fields and occupying neighbors.