Then our "Explanation of Characters in Speaking" course, this lesson talks about the Chinese character "Pan" in the "Pan" department. Strictly speaking, the 540 parts of the "Shuowen Jiezi" do not have a "pan" part, only a "pan" part, this word is the ancient character of the "pan" character (Duan Yujie, Wang Yun both hold this), the modern Chinese GBK character library is no longer included, we temporarily use pinyin here instead, the character of this word is in the shape of the script as shown in the picture:
(pan glyph)
Although the "Explanation of Words" does not accept the word "climb", the common way of writing this word in later generations is "climb". "Pan" is a common Chinese character in modern Chinese, which is included in the "List of Common Words in Modern Chinese" promulgated by the State Language Commission in 1988, so the content of this lesson needs to be strengthened to remember.
In fact, to understand the meaning of this word, you only need to look at its small seal glyph to understand:
(Pan character small seal writing)
climb. Read pān. The explanation given in the Commentary on the Interpretation of Words is "to quote also, from the regurgitation." All pans belong to pan. "Can mean words. The original meaning is to climb; to grab something and climb up.
(Climbing up)
Because the hands are outward when climbing up, the glyph of this word is the two hands that are outward, so the ancestors created the word "climbing", which is exactly the opposite of the two hands of "廾" inward. Its glyph evolution is shown in the following figure:
(Glyph evolution of Climb)
Guangya Shiyi: "Climb, cite." "Orthographic Tong, Hand": "Climb, from the bottom to help Shangye." "Zhuangzi Horseshoe": "The nest of the bird and magpie, which can be climbed and peeped." "The nest of the bird magpie, you can climb up to visit." "Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Zhi, Deng Ai Biography": "The generals all climb the cliffs of the wood edge, and the fish march through." "When Deng Ai smuggled yin ping to destroy Shu, he climbed up and down the rope. The generals and soldiers climbed the trees along the cliffs, one by one.
(Deng Ai Shu)
Beyond this meaning, there are other uses of "climbing":
(1) Pull; pull. "Chinese Jin Yu VIII": "Climbing is profit and giving." Wei Zhao's note: "Climb, lead also." "It means towing chariots to a convenient place for water and grass. The 117th time in the "Complete Biography of the Water Margin": "Hua Rong climbed the bow full of glory, looked at it kindly, and shot an arrow on the front door." "To climb the bow is to hold the bow."
(Hua Rong Pan Bow)
(2) Involvement; involvement. The 100th time in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms: "Kong Ming said: 'He saved you, and you climbed him.'" "Climbing is climbing, implicating."
(3) Attachment; attachment. "History of Han Changru Column Biography": "Just like the empress dowager's palace car is Yan driving, who is the great king Shang?" "If the empress dowager dies suddenly, who else can you cling to, the Great King?" Lu Xun's "Screaming White Light": "Since the gentlemen have come to climb in every possible way, people are in awe as if they have seen the gods. ”
(4) Invocation; The first fold of Ma Zhiyuan's "Autumn of the Han Palace" of the Yuan Dynasty: "Tomorrow night, Your Excellency the West Palace, you will quietly take over the car, and I am afraid that the people of the Sixth Palace will climb the pipa." ”
(5) Catch; chase. Du Fu's "Drama for Six Absolute Sentences" No. 5: "Stealing Song Yifang's driving, I am afraid that I will follow in Qi Liang's footsteps." "The gist is that if you want to chase after Qu Yuan and Song Yu in your heart, you should have the spirit and talent to keep pace with them, otherwise you will fall into the frivolous and sideways aftermath of the Qi and Liang periods along the drainage sources."
(Portrait of Du Fu)
(7) Extraction; folding. Li Bai's "Jiangxia Sends Zhang Cheng": "By means of grass and flowing water, climbing flowers is given to distant people." "Climbing flowers is folding flowers." The eleventh time in the "History of Ru Lin": "Climbing the moon in the fairy gui branch, for a long time let people dance and dance." ”
(Climbing Folding Flowers)
([Explanation of words] no. 501, some pictures from the Internet)