Chapter 1241 Oracle Appreciation
However, once the course started, the audience could not help but be attracted.
Sure enough, this class is called "Oracle Bone Inscriptions Appreciation", which is really good at all.
Zhou Zhi first showed a picture, which is said to be the oldest writing in China, which is the writing created by Cangjie in the legend. It stands in Cangjie Temple. It is said that Confucius has not deciphered it. It is called "Bird Trace Stele" , is the part that leads to the legend that "the sky rains with millet and the ghosts cry at night".
This inscription has a total of twenty-eight characters. Although its authenticity is questionable, the approximate meaning of its character formation can be seen to be simulated based on the formation method of Chinese characters.
The Cangjie Monument is not reliable, but there is one thing that is very reliable, and that is the oracle bone inscriptions.
Zhou Zhi talked about two words in one class, one for China and one for country.
In Oracle Bone Inscriptions, there are three ways of writing. The first way of writing is like a flag, with a vertical pen like a flagpole, a word in the middle like a flag banner, and two ribbon-like strokes on the top and bottom, like a flag.
Why does writing like this represent the concept of "中"? Because in the ancient army, the flag was erected in the middle army as the command symbol of the four armies.
The second way of writing is very similar to modern Chinese characters. It omits the two ribbon-like strokes at the top and bottom. The explanation of the glyph is that the mouth means "place" in oracle bone inscriptions. This represents the military stronghold.
The flagpole passes through the center of the military village, and the distance from the upper and lower ends to the military village is equal, which represents the concept of "middle".
The third one is also similar to modern Chinese characters, but there is an extra horizontal line at the starting point of the vertical painting above, and two more short horizontal lines at the bottom of the vertical painting.
This glyph represents an arrow that penetrates the target and penetrates the wall behind the target. The meaning is not that of "China", but of "winning the bid".
So judging from the oracle bone inscriptions, Zhong actually started out as two characters, one meaning "center" and the other meaning "hit".
Perhaps these two have similar pronunciation and similar glyphs, so in the subsequent evolution of writing, they gradually merged into one, becoming different glyphs, and the meanings can be mixed. In fact, it became A word with multiple meanings and multiple types.
This can also be seen from the spread of writing. In the subsequent bronze inscriptions, three examples of glyphs still existed, but by the Warring States Period, the three examples were omitted to two, and the writing method of the first example disappeared.
And among these two examples, the writing of "shooting" is mainly seen in Qin bamboo slips, while the writing of "center of the military camp" is mostly seen in Chu silk books.
The seal script is inherited from the Warring States period script, and the ancient script is inherited from the Qin Fa, with the horizontal top and vertical strokes removed;
The seal script is inherited from the two examples of bronze inscriptions, but the flags are slightly changed.
There are also three writing methods in official script. The first one is inherited from the first writing method of bronze inscriptions; the second one is inherited from the first writing method of bronze inscriptions, with upper and lower parts omitted; the third one is inherited from seal script. , retaining the curved strokes of vertical painting.
It can be seen from this point that the text changes of each generation are inherited from the previous two generations, and it is by no means just one generation.
Until the advent of regular script, Chinese characters were combined into one character.
As for the country, there was no external mouth at first. There was only one "or", but the shape of the word was Yi Ge, Yi Yi.
Ge represents weapons, which is extended to force and army; its mouth originally means defense, in this case it refers to land.
The combination of the two means a place that needs to be defended by force, which means "territory" and "territory". Later, a "" shape was added to the outside, and the inside was still the shape of Cong Ge Cong Pi, except that more black dots were added in the middle of the mouth for decoration, and more short horizontal lines were added under the mouth, which also means the meaning of land.
This glyph is easy to understand and very standardized. The two traditional mouth shapes of the Chinese characters, the inner and outer mouth shapes, have also become the standard format for most cities in China in later generations, that is, the back-shaped structure of the inner city and the outer city.
Understanding the origin of the word "China", everyone can know its meaning. In fact, this is the "central idea", "unification idea" and "Juche idea" that Chinese civilization has adhered to for thousands of years. It is the Eastern civilization that grew up in the unified Eastern land, which is different from the Western civilization in the Western land that has never achieved unified culture, ethnicity, and territory.
Both civilizations have their essences and their dross. It is normal to learn from each other's strengths and offset their weaknesses. If others are not willing, just quietly learn from each other's strengths and offset their weaknesses. There is no need to belittle oneself or be blindly confident.
But one thing is absolute, that is, the word "China" contains those things that people living on this land are worthy of taking up arms and defending with their lives.
The sum total of those things worth defending is China.
"Oracle Bone Appreciation" is an elective course, or an elective course offered in the evening. If it weren't for the temptation to get credits without taking the exam, many people would not be willing to come, or they would bring their own textbooks and homework with them. Just sit here and study by yourself with the wind in your ears.
No matter what their thoughts, no one would have thought that this course would be so interesting, and that at the end of the lecture, it would actually be of value to the kid on the podium? !
It was not so much a class, but it turned into a lecture at the end, and it was quite exciting. It attracted everyone's attention and couldn't help but applaud collectively.
The first class was quite successful, so Zhou Zhi announced the end of the class. Before the get out of class ended, he told everyone that the next class would still be in the same format, and would still talk about two words. These two words are equally important, because they are The basis of Chinese dualistic philosophy - Yin and Yang.
At that time, someone raised their hand: "Teacher! Please send us a copy of today's handout!"
"Then I will prepare it and distribute it to everyone in the next class." Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "In addition, today I will also post the content on the Clover Forum. If you go to the computer room to use the computer, you can see it in our campus BBS forum."
After everyone had finished, Zhou Zhi walked to his class. Go to this group of people: " What do you think? Please give us your opinions.”
“You are so awesome,” Du Wenxin and Li Yijia both admired Zhou Zhi, and praised with stars in their eyes: “So Oracle doesn’t do it either. It’s difficult, but it’s quite interesting.”
“Hieroglyphics are not difficult in the first place. The closer the characteristics of our Chinese civilization are to the original writing, the easier it is to understand most of them,” Zhou Zhi laughed. road.
"You're so brilliant after a few compliments." Du Xing, however, gave no face at all: "Everyone comes to support you, don't you express your gratitude?"
"It looks like you don't need to come to the next class. Thank you, the rules have been changed now, you can come and go freely, but if you don’t attend the class, you will get no credits.”
“That’s a lot, isn’t it?” He grabbed Zhou Zhi and said, "Before class, I was worried that the results would not be good, so I asked everyone to come and make trouble. Now I am so stubborn that I don't recognize anyone. Today's treat..."
Everyone Everyone was filled with indignation: "You have to do it even if you don't do it!"
Lu Jiayi clapped her hands: "No matter what, I have to have a casserole meal!"
Organizing a reception is actually very simple. Not far from the school gate, there is a Chuan Chuan Xiang restaurant at the entrance of the alley next to Hongqi Village.
Because the briquette stove used has a relatively small fire, in order to keep the heat, the boss used an ancient coal clay pot as a pot. Because of the good taste, the clay pot skewers actually became famous.
We were divided into two tables and chatted around the casserole, and the topic was inseparable from the upcoming CET-4 exam.
(End of this chapter)