The "Why Sacred" series is a full interpretation of the 120-character "SHENG family" in Chinese, and is the first chapter in the series of 50,000 Chinese characters. Every Chinese character is a grain of amber, encompassing thousands of weather. Old Chinese (including Chinese characters) is an education system that integrates historiography, thought, "famous teachings", natural history and other worldly learning, and is a systematic tool for survival and life, general education and the cultivation of human nature.
The 120 Chinese characters for "SHENG" take "sheng1" as the core and starting point, and "sheng4" as the end and sustenance: "sheng" people are "holy" and "weak" people are "strong".
Fox (orangutan, sheng1, 犭 + born), followed by the co-evolution of the sun (Homo erectus, sheng3, 亻 + province) vision (䚇, sheng3, province + see), physiology (, sheng3, long + province), brain (䪿, sheng3, 囟 + page / head), then there are rivers and mountains (by, sheng4, mainland traffic), then there are four seas (勝 [朕 + force], sheng4, coastal traffic), professional fleet (䪿, zhen4, Can go deep inland) appeared, perhaps in order to cope with the great climatic shocks of the glacial period and the interglacial transition (Xian, sheng3), people "land boat" struggled to survive, in the same period rice, pottery and other new means of survival were conceived, the time entered the Holocene warm period (8200-3300), hunting, primitive farming, neolithic unprecedented prosperity led to the emergence of violent groups, tribes have jointly formed full-time military armed forces, professional defense facilities, "SHENG clan" The Chinese characters describe this defining event of modern civilization as: "cheng2". "Cheng (cheng2, ge + yuan / country)" is a city with relatively complete defensive facilities (city walls, moats, etc.) and professional military strength (professional soldiers, armaments, etc.), based on the "cheng" of war, construction and other attributes, so "cheng" also has success or failure, peace, ruling, realization, completion, completion, statistics, format, ability, heavy layer, large, music and other meanings, and there are also parallel, average, one-tenth and other related extensions of the meaning of the deployment of troops.
However, "Cheng" and "Cheng" are both included in the Chinese characters of "CHENG" rather than "SHENG", which is due to the fact that the successes or failures and struggle facilities between human beings are not the essence of human "birth" and reproduction, and the essence of human life and reproduction is the prosperity of habitat, recorded as "sheng (sheng4, cheng + dish)", and given the connotation of the era of "grand light (sheng)" for human beings.
Academically, cities, metallurgy, and writing are the three major elements of civilization, in ancient China, there are yi and guo named 郕 (成+ 邑/阝), all located in the lower reaches of the Dawen River, and Yiyi is located in Wenshang County, which has a lot of roots with "Wen", and the ancient Chinese divided the era of human civilization after the Stone Age into two sections, the former is called "Pottery (Pottery Age)", and the latter is called "Metallurgical Age". The two levels of civilization are used together, that is, "cultivation", which has the meaning of character, sentiment edification and promotion, such as "Sven to cultivate", "spiritual species are natural, and fine knowledge can be cultivated", which reflects the completely different civilization temperament of pottery and metallurgy and handicraft industries such as wood, stone, bone, and shell. It can be seen that the ancients' division of the era of civilization (Taoye) and the pre-shi era (shi, shi) is very close, the difference is the status of the "Pottery Age" in human history, especially in the history of civilization, which is also a question criticized by many anthropological historians, that is, whether the division of the Stone Age directly into the Bronze Age is reasonable (the problem Wenshan teacher will elaborate in the book "Pottery Age").
Turning back to the "Grand Bright (Sheng)" era problem, the root of the word civilization is the city/civil, and the two have obvious commonalities. When "Sheng" is read as "cheng", it emphasizes the importance of "dish (min, the utensil used for meals)", that is, it emphasizes the dependence of the urban population represented by "scholars" on "min," peasants; when "Sheng" is read as "sheng", it emphasizes the characteristics of prosperity, beauty, grandeur, and richness in the "era of urban civilization".
"Deep and civilized, full of energy and god". "Gentle and vulgar to civilized, intimidating the fierce slaves with martial strategy." Today Chinese the word "civilization" is directly related to the civilizational element of words, articles, and culture and education. (Kong Yingda is easy to evacuate)"
"Looking at the prosperity of the civilization of the previous dynasty, I was amazed by it." Prosperity to promote the people's livelihood and reproduction, should undoubtedly be the only purpose of urban civilization, the so-called Taiping prosperous world, which is also the reason why the "SHENG clan" says "sheng" and does not say "city". Whether the "saints" of the "soil" are attributed to the "SHENG clan" also include the expectation of the rational allocation and disposal of the core survival data of the land, after all, "the cultivator has his land" and "the cold people in the world are happy" are the voices of the people of the world throughout the ages. "See the dragon in the field, the world civilization" is there also such a love song?
"Sheng (sheng4, day + cheng)", bright, exuberant, implying that the light of the city shines in all parts of the world, and cultivates civilization, which is both praise and responsibility. "(sheng3, monthly/meat + into)", obesity also, indicating that people's nutritional levels have been raised "liters". "Sheng" or "㼩", a large water vessel, indicates that the surge in water use in urban personal hygiene, urban cleanliness, daily life, handicrafts, etc., also means that people's "life" storage quality can be improved and "risen". "墭", a salt vessel, indicates the surge in salt making and salt use, and also means that people's "raw" theory is healthy, and the "raw" storage quality is "liter". In addition, women have also become "long and beautiful", and the level of love has also been greatly improved.
Obviously, in the era of the prosperity of urban civilization, the urban life represented by salt industry, health, gastronomy (nutrition), and beauty industry has raised the "habitat" of human beings to a new level.
"Sheng1, bucket +, as a unit of measurement for grain, there is another meaning of promotion and improvement, indicating that life is getting richer and richer, while the quantitative management and competition of urban life has promoted the emergence of classes (阩, sheng1, [Fu/阝 + liter]), some people rely on involuntary offerings for a living (sheng1, show + liter), some people rely on blood to thrive step by step (sheng, sheng1, day + liter), and some people make meritorious achievements or climb the feng to welcome a soaring sky (, sheng1). , Bird + Liter), more people like a flame struggling to burn themselves desired to cross the class (焺, sheng1, fire + ascendant).
Urban life is so grand and beautiful, and even the beautiful industry is particularly thriving (after all, it is directly related to the reproduction and necessary competition), how can there be no "sound ( sheng1, 殸 + ear) " color entertainment industry, "color" contains bitterness and responsibility, naturally placed elsewhere, leaving the "sound" of Yazheng alone, and with the "palace (family) merchant (divided stove) horn (nurturing) sign (adult) feather (end of age)" cycle, civilized sentient beings.
November 9, 2021
A ball of fire in Shengcheng