Pronounced Yan, it is also one of China's surnames. Mainly originated in Xihe County and Lixian County, Gansu Province, the birthplace of Qin ancestors. According to legend, after Ying Zheng, king of Qin, unified the six countries, he took the country as his surname, and Tong's family was subsequently enfeoffed. The single surname is mostly distributed in the north, and now it is mainly distributed in Xihe County, Longnan, Gansu Province.
In addition, this surname is also distributed in Huixian and Ningxian counties of Gansu Province, as well as parts of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Ningxia and Xinjiang. It is rare in the south, and this surname is recorded in the ancient book Liu Chen Custom Biography, which is rarely involved in other ancient books. This surname has a long history and a long history. It is a rare surname in China.
It is also one of the ancient five shots. The so-called "five shooting" refers to five shooting techniques, namely: white arrow, joint shooting, injection (y m 4 n), auxiliary ruler and well instrument. White arrow, the arrow penetrates the target and the arrow is white, indicating that the arrow is accurate and powerful;
Join the company, put a vector in front, and the last three vectors go away one after another. If the beads are in the same position, the vectors belong to each other; Note that it is the disease of vector line; A ruler, I shoot with you, I stand side by side with you, and let you back a foot; Good instrument, four vectors are consistent, all hit the target.
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It is a book written by Xu Shen, a philologist in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Written in the first year of Jianguang (A.D. 12 1). There are 9353 words in the book, 1 163 is repeated, and 133440 is annotated. According to the font and radical structure, it is divided into 540 parts, the font is mainly Xiao Zhuan, and the variant characters such as ancient Chinese and Shu Chinese are classified as heavy texts.
There are notes below each word. Generally, the meaning of the word is explained first, and then the physical structure and pronunciation are explained. According to the interpretation of Chinese characters in Liushu, the law of Chinese characters, namely Liushu, is systematically expounded, which has a great influence on later word books. This book is the first systematic interpretation of Chinese characters in the history of China, the first dictionary arranged by radicals in China, and one of the basic classics for studying Chinese characters and the history and culture of China.
Xu Shen called the early independently formed writing symbol "Wen", and the combination of "Wen" and "Wen" was called "Zi". In the history of philology, Xu Shen first put forward the viewpoint that the individual is a text and the combination is a word. Since then, China's ci has a new name, a diachronic concept and a definition of structural levels.
In Xu Shen's view, the maturity of the Chinese character system is achieved through a large number of early characters. In Shuo Wen Jie Zi Xu, Xu Shen outlined the general context of the evolution of Chinese characters, that is, from ancient prose and seal script (big seal script) to small seal script and official script.