Beauty is a common Chinese word, which was first seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. The ancient glyph of beauty is like a person standing in a headdress, which originally means beautiful, beautiful. "Beauty" not only expresses the beauty of concrete things, but also expresses abstract meanings. For example, describing a person's noble character is called "virtue".
Beautiful things often give people a pleasant feeling, so "beauty" has a satisfactory meaning, and "beauty" is sometimes used as a verb to praise; Make it beautiful.
Traceability:
Beauty is a familiar word. From sheep, from big. Duan Yucai wrote: "The sheep are big and fat." Mutton tastes delicious, so people often divide the word "beauty" into "sheep" and "big" and say that "sheep is a great beauty". Seen from the Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the upper part of the "big" is not a sheep's head, but an ornament like a feather.
A person's (big) head is decorated with towering curved feathers or similar headdress, which is naturally beautiful, so it is used to create beauty and aesthetic feeling. After the Western Zhou Dynasty, this ingredient has been very close to "sheep". The mainstream structure of the Warring States period was roughly the same as that of Xiao Zhuan, and at the same time, as the main variant of later generations, it began to stand out from the structure of sheep and fire, which was a "big" mistake.
The mainstream structure of official script inherits the wrong deformation from sheep to big, and further turns it into the beauty of regular script; Judging from the structure of component fire, another big change is the "big" component. Modern times take "beauty" as the standard font.