超生游击队

超生游擊隊

Chāoshēng yóujīduì

proper noun

Meanings

1 Over-Quota Birth Guerrillas, Huang Hong and Song Dandan's 1990 comedy sketch about a couple on the run to have another child
2 families who keep moving from place to place to have more children than the birth limits allow

Characters

to give birth (超生: an over-quota birth)

to strike (游击: guerrilla warfare)

队

duì

band; team

Examples

HSK 5

那时候，有些夫妇为了多生孩子到处躲，被人叫作“超生游击队”。

Nà shíhou, yǒuxiē fūfù wèile duō shēng háizi dàochù duǒ, bèi rén jiàozuò " chāoshēng yóujīduì ".

In those days some couples moved from place to place to have more children, and people called them 'over-quota birth guerrillas'.

HSK 7-9

小品《超生游击队》是黄宏和宋丹丹演的。

Xiǎopǐn 《 Chāoshēng yóujīduì 》 shì Huáng Hóng hé Sòng Dāndān yǎn de.

The sketch Over-Quota Birth Guerrillas was performed by Huang Hong and Song Dandan.

Tips

culture

Huang Hong plays a husband desperate for a son and Song Dandan his heavily pregnant wife, dodging family-planning officials from city to city. Broadcast by CCTV at the start of 1990, the sketch made 超生游击队 the everyday name for such families.

history

The joke rests on the one-child policy, in force from around 1980 until 2015. 超生 is the policy word for a birth over the quota, and 游击队 means 'guerrilla band'.

Stroke Order

超 chāo

生 shēng

游 yóu

击 jī

队 duì