Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1515 Is love intentional or not?

The use of simplified characters actually became the "original sin" of mainland China for a long time. In Zhou Zhi's view, this was actually caused by "regional cultural lack of confidence."

Because the areas that use traditional Chinese characters are either the emerging "Four Little Dragons" with developed economies, or Hong Kong Island, the traditional world financial center. From the perspective of economy, life and culture, these areas have formed a negative impact on the mainland. A kind of "psychological advantage".

And this "advantage" has also attracted the recognition of many people with low self-esteem. There was a wave of denial of simplified characters on the Internet in later generations.

The Chinese department is often the hardest hit by this wave, which is a bit ridiculous.

But as long as you really want to study this issue and study the simplified Chinese characters carefully, you don’t need to have such a sense of inferiority or superiority. On the contrary, those with inferiority complex should be proud of this huge change, and pride should be It’s only right to feel inferior because of your own ignorance.

It is estimated that there are quite a few students in class who have this idea. After Zhou Zhi’s explanation, it seems that the feeling of being a little embarrassed by the female classmate from Baodao has disappeared. Yes, at least from the Chinese character for ‘台’. From an evolutionary point of view, the simplification makes perfect sense, and this is not just something done by New China, but a method that the ancients have been playing since the Yuan and Ming Dynasties!

How dare you say I am ungrateful for what my ancestors have done?

The old waist, which had slumped a little just now, is now straightened up again.

"Let's look at the word "wan" again." Zhou Zhi knew that this change of mentality in class was what he wanted to achieve: "This character is a pictophonetic character, but it does not exist in early Chinese characters."

"So we can only start from the word 'wan' that does not exist next to water. This character first appeared in seal script, "Shuowen Gong Bu": Wan, holding a bow to pass the arrow, from the sound of the bow. "Yupian Gong Bu": Wan , lead also. From the bow, it means related to pulling the bow string;"

"If we study the compilation of this character, we can find that the lower part of the bow has always existed." Zhou Zhi wrote the "wan" characters in several seal scripts on the blackboard: "Let's look at the upper part again. In fact, the earliest It is the "Xuan" of three twisted silks, which means that the bow string is twisted into silk tendons. "

"With the evolution of writing, these three silks also evolved, and some of the Xuan in the middle became Yan, and then became Li in the process of Li and Kai."

"But we can also see that there is a variation of seal script. The upper part of Sanxuan is connected, and the lower part becomes four vertical lines. This is a simplified form of seal script."

"Because of this change, it was widely cited by calligraphers who pursued changes in later calligraphy. Writing methods similar to simplified characters can be seen in various calligraphy works, especially running script and cursive script. , the same goes for "wan" after the radical "water".

"Finally, in the "General List of Simplified Chinese Characters" in 1956, Wanhewan adopted the ancient seal script variant and the knotting method of these two characters in cursive script, and converted them into standard simplified characters."

"But we have a jingle that talks about simplified Chinese characters." A boy in the exchange group stood up and said angrily: "If you don't see your relatives, you won't have children. There will be no husband in your hometown. You will love without heart and prepare for no one." The factory is empty, there is no wheat on the surface, there is no progress, and there is no defense.”

"Can Mr. Zhou explain the words in this jingle in the same way as 'Taiwan' and 'Wan'?"

"Of course!" Zhou Zhi nodded very firmly: "The word "ki" in the oracle bone inscriptions means "Xin" and "Jian" on the other. Its original meaning is to visit the person who committed a crime and was punished. The characters of the Warring States Period have basically not changed, but there are a few variations. In Xin "Wu" is added at the bottom. The seal characters "congjian" and "congqin" mean to visit and visit; they also mean criminals.

"But in the bronze inscriptions on Zhongbo's pots in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and even in the Shuowen, the word "kin" next to it was removed. It can be seen that the simplified usage of "kin" actually followed the bronze inscriptions and "Shuowen", which originated from a long time ago. The era has begun.”

"Production, the bronze inscription is the abbreviation of 'Yan', and 'Yan' is 'proverb', which represents the hunting and farming experience passed down orally." "Add the glyph below to represent the germination of vegetation. The original meaning is that the ancients used agricultural proverbs to cultivate crops. ”

"The seal script inherits the shape of the gold character, but if you look at the official script, the official script directly uses the simplified method of '彦' in the seal script's 'chan' character, and directly writes it in the shape of 'chan'."

"So this usage also exists in ancient times."

"Looking at the word "xiang" again, the oracle bone inscription shows two people sitting opposite each other, with a food utensil placed in the middle to eat, so this word "xiang" is actually the first word for "banquet".

"Then the character changed. One of the people on the left and the one on the right became Xiang, and the other became Right Baoer. The food utensil in the middle was originally '', which was originally the original version of the character Gui. Later, there was a corruption. Change, the middle part becomes a bright sound.”

"So the abbreviation for "xiang" is that people change. How can we say that "xiang has no man"?

"It would be even more interesting to say that love is the word." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Those who say love is unintentional actually don't understand the changes in this word."

As he spoke, he wrote down the word "love" in oracle bone script and seal script: "What is basically certain at present is that the word love in oracle bone script is the phonetic character for '桡' in the upper part and '心' in the lower part."

"Later on, two writing styles were differentiated. One was '' other than the Qin script. This was obviously a direct variant of Oracle Bone Inscriptions. The other was the Qin Xiaozhuan script, which added the symbol '夊' on the basis of "" ', which then evolved into the widely used word 'love'."

"As for why the Qin seal script added '夊', some scholars currently believe that this is a redundant symbol that does not affect the meaning of the entire glyph. Some think it is meaningful and interpret it as '行', but there is no definite answer. Linguistic facts to support it.”

"Later on, the sound symbol '桡' was corrupted and became the prefix 'shou'. However, in many calligraphy works, we can still see countless examples of 'chasing the ancients'. When calligraphers are seeking changes, The prefix of "shou" will be restored to "旡" and the original writing of the word "love" will be restored.

"But this means that the word heart has always existed since the beginning of Oracle." The Baodao boy showed a successful expression: "In the end, it was simplified by the simplified character, so the simplified character became '爱无心', which means That's right."

"Wrong." Zhou Zhi shook his head: "This heart actually always exists in love."

"Let's take a careful look at the way Qin Seal is written. First it's "桊", then "心", what's underneath?" Zhou Zhi used a chalk tip to circle the bottom of the word "爱": "Pay attention, it's '夊', not 'Friends' ”

"But what about in simplified Chinese? You see, it's 'Friends' and not '夊'."

"What does this mean? This means that 'heart' does not exist anymore, but has been simplified into a horizontal line, and together with 夊 became the word 'friend'."

"Okay, I know what to do next." Zhou Zhi raised his hand to stop the Baodao boy who was about to speak: "I will demonstrate why this one comes from a change in the heart."

(End of this chapter)