Proverbs of the hunting and the fishing

In the rich oral literature transmitted between the Hezhe along the generations, the proverbs have an essential importance. In his brief content the centuries knowledge is summed up, since of them there takes shape the experience of the previous generations. There is reflected his social universe, his thought, his tradition and his activities. The suitable way of facing the social relations and of being related to his environment.

The proverbs are the principal educational genre between the Hezhe, since it is across them as the young people knows the values to which they will have to fit his existence inside the community. In the Hezhe, the proverbs related to the hunting and the fishing, are those who have received minor influence from the Chinese.

On having shot, he listens to the sound of the wind, on having thrown the harpoon, looks at the wrinkles of the water.

The fisherman pleases of the night, the hunter gets up early.

The sturgeon likes the deep waters, the bear the calm caves.

There are hundreds of fish in the deep waters, but we will eat that of the superficial ones.

The one that has value is afraid neither of winds nor waves, the coward steps back before a trench.

The hunter is afraid neither of the wild animals, nor the fisherman waves you do not even annoy.

The one that is afraid of the tigers is not a good hunter; the one that is afraid of waves or winds is not a good fisherman.

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