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"Zhong" zhong1), which is a referential word.
Both the oracle bone and the gold script "Zhong" glyphs are derived from an ancient flag. The "□" in the middle indicates that the ancestors lived in clan groups, with two streamers on top, some with two streamers above and below, and some with two streamers above and below. This is both a sign of the clan and a direction for clan members to return when they go out. The shadow projected by the flagpole to the ground is also a reversal of the trajectory of the sun's movement in the sky, thus determining the hour of day.
The small seal glyph has lost the shape of a flag and has lost its streamer, like a long bamboo pole or wooden pole passing through the middle of a hole, which means the middle, the center, and the center. Lishu Kaishu continues the small seal glyph writing "Zhong".
In ancient times, especially during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, wars occurred frequently, and chariots were used in large quantities, and streamer flags were often planted on the chariots. Ancient kings also flew many flags with streamers. The use of the flag is also clearly stipulated, the flag used by the king has nine streamers, seven streamers, five streamers, three streamers, and only one streamer, and there must be no streamers on the flag of those who do not have titles, otherwise they will be killed.
"Zhong" is not impartial in ancient philosophy, and it is also the way many people behave in the world.
"Zhong" originally referred to the flag in the place of residence, extending to mean inner, inner. "Han Feizi. Heshi": "Chu people and clans have jade pu in the Chu Mountains." "
"Medium" also means half, half. Warring States Policy. Wei Ce IV: "Halfway back." There is a couplet written very precisely: two and a half in the middle of the night, mid-August.
"Medium" also means not high, not low, medium. Ji Kang's "Health Theory": "Medicine nourishes life, And Chinese medicine nourishes nature." "
"Medium", in some dialects, means "consistent, line, can" and so on.