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One Chinese character a day - cheng

Cheng chéng, picked up the axe, fought hard until he succeeded.

One Chinese character a day - cheng

Today we come to know the word "chéng".

【Glyph evolution】

Cheng, oracle bones (e, large, war equipment) (囗, chengyi), 钺 in the city, indicating military conquest. Some oracle bones write the city "囗" as a little finger symbol, indicating the end of the conquest. Jin Wen inherits the oracle bone glyph. The seal text writes the "戌" in the golden glyph as the "戌" shape. Original meaning: verb, conquest by force, domination of one side. The "戌" shape of the post-affiliation script is blurred.

【Calligraphy Masters】

One Chinese character a day - cheng

【Definition of words】

〈Move〉

(Will you understand.) Oracle glyphs, from "|" (i.e. "pestle"). "Axe" and "pestle" can be done. Meaning: completion, achievement)

Good luck with that. - "Rituals and Rituals of The Lesser Prison"

becomes; become

Tired of inches, it became a horse. - The Book of the Later Han Dynasty

Fulfill

formation

get married

〈Name〉

succeed

The chance of success or failure lies in today. —— "Zizhi Tongjian"

Results; accomplishment

One in ten; ratio

〈Shape〉

ready-made

【The Story of the Word】

One Chinese character a day - cheng

Kinser

Tang Li Shangyin

Jinser unprovoked fifty strings, one string and one pillar Sihua Nian.

Zhuang Sheng Xiao dreamed of butterflies, and wangdi chunxin trusted the cuckoo.

There are tears in the pearls of the sea and the moon, and the warm jade smoke of the blue field.

Can this be a memory? It was just that I was confused at the time.

Translation: Cerben has twenty-five strings, but this poem was written after the death of Li Shangyin's wife, so the fifty strings have the meaning of broken strings, but even so, each of its strings and syllables is enough to express the thought of that beautiful year. Zhuang Zhou actually knew that he was just yearning for the free butterfly. Wangdi's beautiful heart and deeds can move the cuckoo. The shadow of the bright moon in the sea is like a pearl made of tears. Only the blue fields of that time and place can produce good jade like raw smoke. Those beautiful things and times can only be left in the memory. At that time, those people seemed to be just ordinary, but they did not know how to cherish.

Interpretation: Li Shangyin is talented and intelligent, Wen Siruimin, in his early twenties, he was jealous of the Hongke Examination and did not brush down, and he has never met since. In the "cow and lee party dispute", it is difficult to be left and right, the two sides are suspicious, they have been repeatedly ostracized, it is difficult to extend their ambitions, and they have lost their wives in middle age. This poem was written after the death of Li Shangyin's wife, so the fifty strings have the meaning of broken strings (a twenty-five-string Guser string is broken in half, that is, fifty strings), but even so, each of its strings and syllables is enough to express the longing for that beautiful year.

In the poem, the author recalls his youth, sadness of his unfortunate encounters, pinning on a sad and indignant mood, borrowing a lot of allusions such as Zhuang Sheng's dream butterfly, cuckoo crying blood, tears of the sea, and liangyu sheng smoke, using the Bixing technique, using association and imagination, transforming the auditory feelings into visual images, and creating a hazy realm with the combination of fragmentary imagery, so as to convey its sincere and intense and deep thinking with the help of visible and perceptible poetic images.

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