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Kanji Fun Talk: Shi
"Shi4", which is a ideographic word. The oracle bone character for "shi" has two different ways of writing, one is the upper symbol is a simple and provincial shape of "water", the lower part of a long oblique stroke indicates the "tributary" of "water", and the other is to add an oval-like symbol (meaning a spiritual object) next to a person.
The origin of the "clan" has to start from the marriage system of ancient times. In ancient times, it belonged to the matrilineal group marriage system, and the child only knew his mother, not his father. The ancestors attributed the birth of some saints to their mothers after encountering spiritual objects and conceived, so they regarded the spiritual objects that directly led to the conception of the first grandmother as totems, and also as common worship objects of the ethnic group, and also as symbols of the ethnic group, which over time became the surname of the ethnic group.
In the stage of entering the patrilineal monarchy and becoming a monopoly marriage, his son knows his mother and his father. As the population increases, a part of the population of the same ethnic group migrates to another place, and these populations are a "clan" in this ethnic group. It is also a branch of this ethnic group.
Wang Entian believes: "The character of the clan is actually the first text of the branch character, and its character is like a tributary of water. The text explains: "Surname, people are born." The holy man of the ancients, the mother felt the heavens and gave birth to a son, so he was called the Son of Heaven; Because people think that the surname, from the girl, the birth is also the voice. The oval-like symbol in the second glyph of the oracle bone means "Mother Sense Heaven" (spiritual object).
The first of the Golden Text inherits the first glyph of the Oracle, and the second glyph indicates that many branches are divided. The dots on the third and fourth oblique paintings are finger symbols, emphasizing that they are tributaries. Xiao Zhen stretched the dots in the third and fourth glyphs of the Jin wen into a horizontal, and wrote it as "clan" after the change.
The original meaning of "clan" is a branch of a group. That is, the descendants of the same father's blood. In patrilineal societies, there are surnames and surnames, "surname" is the family name, and "surname" is a branch of the surname, which is the title of the sub-branch of the same family. In ancient times, the "surname" was unchanged, the "clan" was variable, and the "clan" could be derived from the name of the country, or the official name could be "clan", or the place of residence as the "clan". In ancient times, men called "surname" and women called "surname", after the Warring States period, surname and surname gradually merged into one, and by the Han Dynasty period, they were collectively called "surname".