蛋家(正体字为蜑家,标准汉语为dan;亦作疍民、艇家、水上人等)是广东、广西和福建一带一种以船为家的渔民的统称。清初学者屈大均在他的《广东新语》一书中解释说:“诸蛋以艇为家,是曰蛋家。”而根据传统的说法,蛋民所乘的艇像一只鸡蛋对半剖开,上盖以篷,故名“蛋蜒”;主人以艇为家,所以叫作“蛋家”。 Egg house (the standard word for the home, the standard Chinese for dan; also for the people, boats, water, etc.) is Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian along the boat as a fisherman collectively. Qu Da-chun, a scholar of the early Qing Dynasty, explained in his book New Cantonese: “All the eggs are made by boat, they are yards.” According to the traditional saying, the yacht is like an egg Half cut open, covered with a canopy, hence the name “egg serpentine ”; owner to boat as home, so called “egg home ”.