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Kanji Fun Talk: Year
"Nian2" (nian2), originally a synaesthetic word. The word "year" in the oracle bone is a word that is closely related to "he", and the word "year" in the oracle bone is a glyph with an upper and lower structure, the upper part is a "he", the lower part is a "person", and the whole character is shaped like a person carrying a grain, indicating the harvest of mature grain.
In the ancient Central Plains, farming techniques were relatively simple, spring planting and autumn harvest, although the ancestors worked hard, the crops were only ripe once a year. For the ancestors who depended on the sky to eat, whether the crops could be harvested was of great significance, and the ancestors believed that only when the crops were harvested, this was the year.
The Analects. Yan Yuan: "Hungry for years, insufficient use." The time it takes to sow and harvest once is exactly one year, and if the crop is not harvested, it is possible to go hungry for a year. The Jinwen "Nian" characters of the Yin Shang Period, the early and late Zhou Dynasties continued the oracle bone glyph, and the "Nian" character in the Spring and Autumn Period added a "soil" to the lower right of the "He" character, meaning that the crops in the field were ripe.
The "year" of the small seal becomes the shape of "from he, a thousand sounds". After the change, it is written in "year".
The original meaning of "year" is ripe, that is, the year is formed. The Tale of The Grain Liang. Huan Gong Three Years": "All the grains are ripe, for the year also." "Explanation of Words": "Nian, Gu Shuye." "In order to have a good harvest, people hold new year sacrifices at the beginning of the new year, praying for the gods of heaven and earth to ensure a good harvest in the new year. The "Hall of Prayer for the New Year" in Beijing is the place where the emperor prays for abundant grain.
A "year" has four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter for twelve months. So by extension refers to age, age. Such as "teenagers do not work hard", "martyrs in their twilight years" and so on.
"Year" is the era name of the emperor. Romance of the Three Kingdoms. WU Shu. Wu's biography: "Changed the year to Yankang." (Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty was given the era name of Yankang)
"Year" is a surname.