Today, a mother in the group asked me why the last two strokes of the "car" are first horizontal and then vertical, while the "next to the car word" is first vertical and then mentioned (horizontal deformation)?
In fact, I have not paid special attention to this point before, and I really want to thank my attentive mother for bringing up this question.
This reminds me of the stroke order of "Wan" and "Fang" that I have been complaining about before. What my teacher taught me from my childhood was to skim first and then fold the hook, but now I learn with my children, which completely subverts cognition, and the correct writing method should be the last skimming. At that time, I thought about it for a long time, complaining about how the person who set this rule was so bad, so that I couldn't write for a few days, and I finally figured it out. If you fold the hook first, the beginning of the stroke after the hook is very smooth, and there is not much hanging distance. And if you skim out first, and then come back to write the horizontal folding hook, from the end of the skimming to the beginning of the horizontal, the hanging distance is very far.
From this, I came to a conclusion ~ ~ "At the beginning of man, nature is lazy", how convenient and how to save trouble.
The car and the word next to the car mentioned today are the best evidence for this conclusion.
As we all know, in ancient times, writing was from right to left, from top to bottom, because of bamboo simplicity. Let's start with the word "car." Whether it is the traditional character "che" or the simplified character "che", the last two strokes are horizontal and vertical. If you are vertical and then horizontal, the starting pen of the next word is usually in the lower left or directly below the word "car", and you need to go from the far right of the car to the bottom left or just below, and the road taken is longer. If you first horizontally and then vertically, you can write down the next word with a slight lift of the pen, which is very convenient and smooth.
For example, if you write "traffic", the blue path is the last stroke is vertical, the green path is the last stroke is horizontal, and which is closer to the end point to the starting point of the next word "water"? obvious. This habit of writing vertically dominated for a long time, until it began in 1909, when it was changed to horizontal writing from left to right.
However, the word "car" is another matter, taking "car" as an example. Generally, after writing next to the car word, it is immediately followed by the word components on the right, and there are more in the upper left corner of the right side. If you lift it first and then vertically, the end point is at the bottom, and then go back to the upper left corner of the right corner a little farther (see green path). If you put it up first and then mention it, you are much closer to the next starting point (blue path).
There are also horizontal strokes such as the side of the soil, the side of the king word and so on to become a mention, in addition to making the side slim and beautiful, I think there is another reason may be to get closer to the next stroke.
Now they are all written horizontally, and if it is really because of this reason that I analyzed, the "car" may be changed to vertical and then horizontal at some point.
The above is my personal opinion and is for reference only.