This is "Zi", so what was the earliest glyph? Oracle Bone Inscriptions is like this. We say it is hieroglyphics. According to the current statement, it is the eyes, and the eyes refer to the eyes. This curly hair looks like an eyebrow. In fact, we will look at this later when we know the ancient glyph. There is no boundary at all. I guess anyone with a little life experience will find out what it actually looks like, like a human nose. Let's see why our "self" is pictographic with our noses. What's the point? In fact, when we ancient people invented this word, we already implied a lot of ideas here. For example, our ancestors knew what the most fundamental person was, whether it was qi or nose. Now some of us watch movies and TV, and when we know that this person is alive or dead, we put our hands on his nostrils to see if he is breathing. So we can infer that when the ancients used their noses to symbolize themselves, we can see who else is there until today. I mean my nose, so it just symbolizes that I am angry, I am alive, I am alive. It can be seen that the excavation of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, that is, the excavation of ancient Chinese characters, really built a bridge between us and the ancients today, enabling us to go to the hearts of the ancients and explore their true thoughts.

Let's look at this word again. The word is "hit", which means "hit". At present, the earliest glyph found is Xiao Zhuan, which is similar to the current regular script. What does it mean when it is combined with one diced in one hand and one diced in the other? As we know, today's "da" means that Modern Chinese Dictionary has 26 meanings and The Great Chinese Dictionary has 29 meanings. A linguist named Chen Yuan wrote an article called Magic Beat. Why is this "fight" amazing? We saw that when I met my enemy, I punched him, which was contradictory to him. Besides, we are going out now, so many friends are coming today. Why are you raising your hand? We didn't take a taxi. Why do we take a taxi? Besides, there are many lesbians here, and most people don't play this game now. However, in the past, lesbians knitted this by themselves. At that time, it was not knitting, but "knitting". We picked up the phone and called, and then recalled buying soy sauce, vinegar and wine as children, called "drinking", and so on. What does it have to do with this glyph? There is a tripod in one hand, so Chen Yuan said this sentence: "Chinese characters are amazing. Just playing this glyph contains so many meanings, but it is not necessarily unified. " Then it is necessary to study how the ancients invented this word and why it can derive so many meanings. Of course, we can say that after Chinese characters are created, they are like a truck. As it gets closer and closer to us, its weight is getting bigger and bigger. But we can't deny that when it was just created, it already carried some goods, that is, information. This is the most fundamental and primitive. So I tried to understand the word "big". I didn't pay much attention to this word at first, but I have a friend who teaches at Renmin University. He speaks Chinese to foreigners, Canadians, Indians and British people. He said that these foreign friends can't understand the word "big" and can't understand why this glyph can have so many contradictory meanings. He said, let me talk about it. This is right for me. That is, reduction. This glyph consists of two parts, one in each hand and one in the other. When it was restored to the earliest, we imagined what our ancestors would do with this symbol. Of course, it must be in a specific state. After entering the state, I thought of it. In other words, our ancestors held a thing and nailed a nail. Of course, the nails in the past were not necessarily metal, but could be wood or stone. Such as trees, such as soil, in this case, all the meanings just said can be restored through this action. We can see that according to the current action, if you hit this nail with a hammer, what is the first action? The first is to lift, the second is to swing, the third is to hit, and the fourth is to advance. Then we think that a typing is just four actions of a person, and sum up such a glyph. If you don't restore it, you won't know that there are these four actions. Of course, the score is solved. How do you know that this "typing" can break down so many meanings? Now let's see, all the meanings of "playing" we just said can be broken down into these four actions. What does knitting mean? Playing with wine vinegar is now hydraulic. Of course, now even the hydraulic pressure doesn't need a barrel, so it's in; Who is one is to enter; At first, I called by telegraph, which meant to knock by hand. In other words, when we understand this Chinese character, the earliest font and the earliest meaning, we will understand that these 29 meanings, or the 26 meanings mentioned in Modern Chinese Dictionary, are well-founded.

Let's give another example. We know that the words "harmony" and "harmony" have at least four meanings now, but two of them are the most important. What's the first one? It is progressive. For example, the Analects of Confucius, everyone here may know its name. "Learn from time to time", then this "harmony" plays a progressive role, and the second is a turning point. Then, of course, this progressive turning point is not a real word in modern Chinese, but a function word. But how did this function word come from? It is also related to this glyph. Then it is also through previous research that such a glyph was found on the Oracle bones in Yin Ruins. After that, Xu Shen and I felt this. What is this pictogram? This is a pictogram of human beard. Let's see if it looks like it. Of course, there are many kinds of this glyph. Let's have a look. I won't write this word There is a play in Chinese characters. The "play" is above and the woman is below. Therefore, in the past, men in ancient times had to grow beards, which meant disrespect for women. Teasing a woman with a beard is fun. There is also a word, one inch here, and some have vertical knives. Why? Because in ancient China, if your mistakes were not particularly serious, you shaved your beard, which was tolerable, so it was called "resistance". But what does this "harmony" have to do with progression and turning? I've been thinking about this word for a long time and I can't figure it out. Of course, you can simply paste it, with a softer beard and a better turn. What about progressive? I often don't think about this, so I put it aside and read other books. One day, I suddenly found this "harmony" that Wang Fuzhi understood in "Talking about Wen Wen Guang Yi", that is, Wang Chuanshan. This record is too precious, because I didn't find anything else except his record. In other words, our ancestors called people's beards fins. As we know, fish have ventral fins, dorsal fins, pectoral fins and caudal fins. Like little wings, this is really like a beard. So our ancestors also called this thing "er" of fish, but many dictionaries and dictionaries did not have this explanation. So now we can figure out what to do when a fish wants to move forward, and poke its fin hard. What about the fish turning a corner? Poke its tail fin.

Let's look at another word, which we all know is the "music" of music. So what does this glyph have to do with the music we listen to today? This word also has a pronunciation. What is it called and what does it have to do with our happiness today? See the oldest glyph and you will understand. This is the font of Oracle Bone Inscriptions. This is a hieroglyph. What does it look like? It's like a musical instrument. Some people say it's a drum on a shelf and some people say it's a broken silk string on a wooden shelf. It doesn't matter, but I'm sure it looks like a musical instrument, so now I understand. So what is the earliest word "music" in this musical instrument? The hieroglyphics of musical instruments, so what is it called? It's called music. What does it bring us when it makes sound? Happy, how about this glyph? It contains three meanings, all of them. When you don't know the font, just look at this and you can't understand it.