The 80-year-old happy old man uses calligraphy
Demonstrate the origin of Chinese characters
Let's talk about the story of Chinese characters with you
Kanji Fun Talk: Autumn
"Qiu" (qiu1), which is a hieroglyph. The word "autumn" in oracle bones is an image text. Specifically, a "cricket" (called a cricket in some places) is painted with two long whiskers on the head, two wings under the head that vibrate and sound, two strong and powerful hind legs in the middle of the body, and a pile of fires in the lower part of the "cricket".
Crickets generally start chirping in August and stop chirping when the weather turns cold in late October. When two males meet, they first erect their wings and chirp, then face each other, open their mouths to bite each other, or kick them with their feet. In the past, many people used crickets to fight each other for entertainment or gambling, and this custom may have begun before the merchants. The time when the crickets chirp is autumn, autumn is the season when the crops are ripe, the crops are ripe, showing a golden yellow, like fire, adding fire under the crickets indicates that it is autumn.
The "autumn" character of Jin Wen, although it is quite different from the autumn character of the oracle bone, is still a cricket painted. The word "qiu" in the Book of Houma in 550 BC is "from the grass to the fire".
The word "qiu" in Xiaozhu is the meaning of "from fire from he". Lishu inherits the glyphs in Hou Ma Meng's book, and the letter continues to write "Autumn".
The "autumn" season is the season when crops are ripe for harvest. Thus "autumn" refers to the harvest. Shang Shu. Pan Gengshang:"If the farmer serves the field force (se4), there is also autumn." (If farmers work hard in the fields, there will be a good harvest in the fall.) )
"Autumn" refers to autumn. Before the Western Zhou Dynasty, the year was only divided into two seasons, spring and autumn, so the spring and autumn were used to indicate the age. Such as "Lü's Spring and Autumn", "Spring and Autumn Warring States Period". Later, it was found that one season was half a year, and the time calculation effect was not great, so the two seasons were divided into four seasons in half, which was "spring, summer, autumn and winter".
"Autumn" also refers to the year. "Han Feizi. Xianxue:"The blessing of the present Witch Blessing is known: 'Long live the thousands of years.' ‘"