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One Chinese character a day - Xiao

Xiao xiǎo, from the sun, Yao Sheng, Tianming.

Today we will recognize the word "Xiao Xiǎo".

【Glyph evolution】

This word first appears in seal script. The characters from the sun and yao sound belong to the shape sound in the six books. There are two meanings: dawn and clarity. "Speaking": "Xiao, Mingye." Paragraph note: "This is also called Danye." The common cloud dawn is also. Extension for the Bright One. Dialects: 'Party, Xiao, Zhe, Zhiye. Chu is called the party, or Xiao, between Qi and Song is called zhe." The characters of The Li and the Italics are both inherited from the seal text. The canonical word is simplified from the Yao parts in cursive.

【Calligraphy Masters】

One Chinese character a day - Xiao

【Definition of words】

〈Name〉

Dawn refers specifically to the dawn of the day

Xiao drove a charcoal car to roll the ice rut. --Don S. Bai Juyi", "Selling Charcoal"

Look at the red wet place. --Don S. Du Fu's "Happy Rain on Spring Night"

Comb XiaoYi also. --Don S. Du Mu's "A Fang Gong Fu"

Dawn of the wind. --Song · Liu Yong "Raining Bells"

early morning

Xiaoguang floats in the wilderness, returning to the smoke and the sun. --Liang · Emperor Jianwen's "Poetry of Serving the New Pavilion"

〈Move〉

Understand, understand

Xiao, Huiye; Fast also; Chiya. - "Guangya"

Inform, make it clear

It is the servant who can no longer soothe his anger and know about it. - The Biography of Sima Qian of Han

【The Story of the Word】

widely known

One Chinese character a day - Xiao

Pronunciation: jiā yù hù xiǎo

Explanation: It means that every family knows it. Describe what people know.

Source: "The Book of Han, Liu Fu's Biography": "The world is not known to everyone." Song Lou Key's "Surrender Zheng Xi and Other Exonerations": "And if you have the purpose of exoneration, you cannot tell the family (Yu) household." ”

Story: An ancient book called The Legend of the Spirited Woman recorded such a story. In ancient times, there was a woman surnamed Liang, known as Liang Gu, who took her two children and lived with her brother's family. One day, my brother and sister-in-law went to work in the fields, and Liang Gu was at home alone to take care of one of her brother's sons and her two children. While she was washing her clothes in the courtyard outside, a raging fire suddenly broke out in the house, and the fire blocked the three small children in the house, and the situation was very critical. Liang Gu rushed into the house in spite of herself, trying to rescue her brother's child first, but because the smoke in the house was billowing, she couldn't tell which child was her little nephew, so when she took the child out to take a look, she found that it was her son who was saved. At this time, the fire is getting stronger and fiercer, and if she goes in to save the child, she herself is in danger of life. She was very anxious, pounding her chest and crying, thinking to herself: How did this get here! If I can't save my brother's child, but my own child is saved, won't every family know that I am a selfish little person? Then I will never have the face to face my brother and sister-in-law again! No, even if I rush in and get burned to death, I will have to rescue my nephew! So she risked her life once again into the thatched hut that had become a fire, but the child was not rescued and she herself was burned to death. Later, people used "household name" to express the meaning of some characters, stories or events that every family understands and everyone knows.

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