Chapter 1515 Is love intentional or not?
The use of simplified Chinese characters has become the "original sin" of mainland China for a long time. In Zhou Zhi's view, this is actually a kind of "regional cultural lack of confidence" "Caused.
Because from the current point of view, the areas where traditional Chinese characters are used are either the emerging "Four Little Dragons" with developed economies, or Hong Kong Island, the traditional world financial center. From the perspective of economy and life to culture, it is This gives these regions a "psychological advantage" over the mainland.
And such "advantages" have 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.
I guess 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 Baodao just now has disappeared. Yes, at least Judging from the evolution of the word "台", the simplification is very reasonable. Moreover, this is not just something done by New China, but a method that the ancients have been playing since the Yuan and Ming Dynasties!
You have the nerve to say that I have forgotten my ancestors because of the things my ancestors have been doing? !
My 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 there is no such character in the 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 Gongbu": Wan, holding a bow to pass the arrow, from the sound of the bow. "Yupian Gongbu": Wan , lead also. From the bow, it means related to pulling the bow string;"
"If we study the compilation of this word, we can It was found that the bow in the lower part has always existed." Zhou Zhi wrote the "wan" characters in several seal scripts on the blackboard: "Let's look at the upper part. In fact, the earliest one is the 'Xuan' with three twists of silk. The bow string is made of twisted silk tendons. "
"With the evolution of writing, these three silk threads also evolved. Evolution, some of the middle Xuan became Yan, and then in the process of Li and Kaihua, it became "But we can also see a variant of seal script, the upper part of Sanxuan." are connected, and the lower part becomes four vertical lines, which is a simplified form of seal script."
“Because of this change, it was widely cited by calligraphers who pursued changes in later calligraphy. It can be seen in various calligraphy works, especially running script and cursive script. Similar to the simplified character writing method, the same is true with the addition of "wan" after the radical of 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."
< br>“But we have a jingle that talks about simplified Chinese characters,” said a man in the exchange group. The student stood up and said angrily: "If you don't see your relatives, you won't have children. There will be no husband in the village, no love, no one to prepare for. The factory is empty, there is no wheat in the face, there is no progress, and there is no health."
"Can Mr. Zhou explain all the characters in this jingle in the same way as 'Taiwan' and 'Wan'?"
< br>"Of course!" Zhou Zhi nodded very firmly: "The word "ki" in the oracle bone inscriptions means "see" on one side and "see" 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 more variations. The seal characters Congjian and Congqin are added under Xin, which means to visit and visit. Thinking; also means criminal. "
"However, in the bronze inscriptions of Zhongbo pots in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and even in the text, the word "see" next to the word "kin" has been removed, which shows the simplified usage of "kin". It follows the ancient texts and "Shuowen" from a long time ago."
"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 gold characters, but if you look at the official script, the official script directly uses the seal script. The simplification of 'Yan' in Wen's word 'Chan' is directly written in the glyph of 'Chan'."
"So this usage is also found in ancient times."
"Look at Xiang again. The character, oracle bone inscription, shows two people sitting opposite each other, with a food utensil placed in the middle to eat, so this township is actually the first word for feast."
"Later on, the character changed. One of the people on the left and the one on the right became Xiang, and the other became Right Bao Er. 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 this abbreviation for "township" is originally changed by people. How can we say that there is no man in the village?"
"It would be more interesting to say the word "love"." Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "Say Those who love unintentionally do not understand the changes in this word."
As he spoke, he wrote down both the oracle bone script and seal script of the word love: "What is basically certain at present is that the word love in oracle bone script is the phonetic character for '桡' on the top and '心' on the bottom."
"Later, two writers were differentiated. Method, one is '' other than Qin script, which is obviously a direct variant of oracle bone inscriptions. The other is Qin script, which added the symbol '夊' on the basis of "", and then evolved into the later widely used seal script. '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"
"Later, the sound. The symbol '桡' has been corrupted and turned into the prefix "Shou". However, in many calligraphy works, we can still see countless examples of "chasing the ancients". When calligraphers are looking for changes, they will restore the prefix "Shou" Cheng Han, restore the original writing method of love."
"But this. It means that the word "心" 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 is correct. "
"Wrong." Zhou Zhi shook his head: "This heart. , In fact, it has always existed in love."
"Look carefully at the way Qin Zhuan writes it, first is "桡", then "心", what is underneath?" Zhou Zhi circled the bottom of the word "love" with a piece of chalk. : "Pay attention, it's '夊', not 'friend'."
"But what about in simplified Chinese? You see, it's 'Friend' instead of '夊'."
"What does this mean? This shows that 'heart' does not exist anymore, but has been simplified to Yiheng, together with 夊, becomes 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)