- 姓蒋还是姓汪 xìng Jiǎngháishixìng Wāng friend or foefriend or foe? (alluding to whether one follows Chiang Kai-shek or the collaborator Wang Jingwei; from the revolutionary opera Shajiabang)
- 姜还是老的辣 jiāngháishìlǎodelà older and wiserthe older one is, the more experienced, shrewd, and capable one becomes; experience counts