Leaking eight points, also known as revealing eight points, is an ancient language form circulating in Gubeikou Town, Miyun, Beijing. It is said that this language originated in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and can be used in daily life. It is also a word game. At present, only a dozen old people in the town are still using it, mainly in Hexi and Hedong villages. The youngest is 60 years old, but I haven't heard of anyone using this language outside Gubeikou. This language, which contains cultural charm and claims to be comparable to women's books, has fallen into the brink of extinction.

The so-called "revealing eight points" means hiding the last word of a four-character idiom or phrase, and that hidden word is the real meaning. For example, the human head is "dominant"; Say that the food you eat is "coarse tea"; Hair is "long hair scattered"; Ears are "fat"; Eyes are "shameful"; The face is "hippie"; The jacket is "Tang"; "Shiro agent, pro-Canada" is the mother; "Love is poor, love is dear" is the father; Among surnames, "Lou Bafen" is the most frequently mentioned. For example, Tian's surname is "bitter with bitterness", Chang's surname is "absent repeatedly", Zhang's surname is "in a hurry", and so on.

If people don't know the mystery, they will be confused:

Dialogue 1 of "Exposing Eight Items":

A: "What are you doing?"

B: "Ask Gao Zai (Shang) to go to the hospital to see Sawtooth."

A: "What's for lunch?"

B: "Chicken pecks (rice)."

Dialogue 2 of "Exposing Eight Items":

A: Hey, I panicked (Zhang). Our Kirin is quite old. Let's see who has a good letter.

B: Qian Enwan (thanks) Their daughter is good. I'll talk to Gao Zaishang later. a； What does that girl look like?

B: Long hair is loose, with heavy eyebrows and watery eyes.

A: How about Shiro visiting (mother) and loving (father) because he is poor?

Both parents are fine.

A: ok, it's done. I'll treat you to light tea (rice).

"Exposing Eight Points", as a pastime of working people in those days, is estimated to be similar to "brain damage" and "Martian writing" in the eyes of mainstream cultural people, and now it has become a kind of "culture" worried about being lost. The vicissitudes of the world can't help but make people sigh. ...

In addition, Linbafen is a language (or dialect) used by the Hui people in Bijie in the past three southwestern provinces, especially Kunming, Yuxi and Guizhou. It originated from commerce, developed in war and applied to life. Missing eight points means that outsiders can only decipher the meaning of "80%", "missing seven points" means that outsiders can only decipher "seven points", and "missing three points" is even more unique, and experts can only decipher "30%". "Leak" means "reveal a secret" in Bijie dialect, such as "tell him something" and "leak". Therefore, "seven-point ellipsis" is a form created on the basis of eight-point ellipsis, and "three-point ellipsis" is a more difficult language that constantly evolves and expands according to seven-point ellipsis. These three forms are collectively called eight-point ellipsis.