The rhetoric of "Praising the House" contains rich cultural connotations. For example, the content of the clock: "Your father wears a watch and writes music. He never goes out. He has a belt wrapped around his waist. He wants to wear it this way. He wants to bring Longines, European and American coffee, Alkin, Burial, and gold cases. , silver shell set, copper shell set, iron shell set, gold three needles, silver three needles, Uliwen, Hendry, human head dog, three beams, half bed kang, winding handle, one minute per second, two minutes per second , double clip, single clip, Youwei, Liwei, Yiwei, Bovet, horse watch, watch, pocket watch, electric watch, holding the beam in the left hand, the music box in the right hand, the big clock on the head, the cuckoo clock on the back, and the It’s a small alarm clock, and it’s jingling all the time...”

There are a lot of jargon about watch circles here. "LONGINES, OMEGA, ELGIN, MAGNA" refers to the brands of watches (pocket watches), "gold case, silver case, copper case, iron case" "Sleeve, gold three-hand, silver three-hand" refers to the appearance style of the watch, the material of the watch case and watch hands. "Ullmann, Hendry, and CYMA" are also the names of watches. Among them, Ullmann, Hendry, and Levi were the names of famous watch shops in Beijing at that time. "Ullmann" refers to CYMA ) I guess the LOGO of this watch at that time looked like a dog with a human head. "Juvet, LEVY, Bovet, Yiwei, etc." were also famous foreign watch brands at that time. After the Opium War, the Qing government was forced to open coastal ports to five ports for trade. European businessmen from Switzerland, France and the United Kingdom gathered in Shanghai, Tianjin, Hong Kong and other places to develop (watch) trade. Throughout the 19th century, not only did a large number of foreigners establish their own watch shops in China, but many European watch manufacturers also used Chinese characters as the trademark names of their watches in order to make their products more familiar to the Chinese people. The word "喴" is the most commonly used.

"Three beams, half paved Kang" refers to the plywood of a pocket watch. The three beams refer to the watch movement using three horizontal plywood to assemble watch parts, with Japanese and French watches as typical examples. . It is estimated to be similar to the "three gold bridges" structure of the current Girard-Perregaux watch; the half-kang is a large plywood used for the watch movement, similar to the 3/4 plywood of the German Lange watch now. However, watches (pocket watches) at that time were basically Using "I-shaped wheel" structure.

The words "winding with a handle, one minute of a second, two minutes of a second, double clip, single clip" are more professional. "Winding with a handle" is better, that is, you don't need a key to wind the watch, you use a watch crown. , "second and minute" means the second hand (usually the small second hand) beats one division per second, especially like today's quartz watches. At that time, there were also "seconds and half minutes, seconds and 1/4 minutes". The clocks at that time The escapement mechanism is relatively old, so the seconds will jump, but the "second and two minutes" seems to be the interpretation of cross talk. "Double catch, single catch" refers to the slips or nails on the escapement fork in watches. In the past, they were called "catch", and they were usually double catches. "Single catch" is too rare.

"Ti Liangzi" is a small copper-shell portable clock with an alarm, which is somewhat similar to a "leather cover" clock. Because there is a lifting ring on the upper end of the clock, it is called "Ti Liangzi"; The "cuckoo clock" is now known as the "cuckoo clock". When the hands of the clock reach the right time, a little bird will jump out of the door and chirp to tell the time.