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Flowers and flowers
There are many homophones in Chinese characters, and in the Internet age, the use of many homophones is also uneven, not to mention harmonic characters. In fact, throughout history, especially in the period of feudal society, many homophones and consonant characters have been widely used, especially the blessings of ordinary people for a better life. For example, most of the new year paintings with fish that we are more familiar with are homophonous uses of "every year with more than enough", which is an expectation of a good day in the coming year. For example, when wearing a jade pendant, there is a saying that "men wear Guanyin and women wear Buddha", "Guanyin" is a homophony of "official seal", and "Buddha" is a consonant "Fu". These are all wonderful uses. In recent years, these homophones have been widely used, and the best use of them I think "flower grower" must be one of them.
Among them, there is not only the ancient knowledge that the origin of the words "Hua" and "Hua" is the same word, but also the description of the flowers of the motherland, and some slightly romantic implications.
Hua and Flowers in Philology
In the history of writing, there is first "Hua" and then "hua", "Hua" and "hua" can be used in many cases, although the original meaning is the same, but slowly there are some differences, especially in the use of some proper nouns, such as "Zhonghua", "Huaxia", "Huashan" can not use "flower", and various flower names can not use "Hua". Let's look at the word "Hua".
The upper part of the "Hua" character is written like the shape of a flower, and the lower part is a ti. The shape of the small seal writing method still has a flower shape on it, and the bottom is a flower base shape. When it came to the form of the script, it became very complicated.
The original meaning of the word "Hua" is "flower", such as the "Li Ji Yue Ling": "(The Month of Spring) Tong Shi Hua." "That is to say: the plane tree blooms in late spring. In the Erya Shicao, it is also said: "Wood is called Hua, and grass is called glory." In other words, the flowers of trees are called "Hua" and the flowers of grass are called "Rong". Because the flowers have various colors, so the black and white hair is also called "Huafa", such as Xin Renjie's "Qingping Le Duju Boshan Wang'an" Words: "Pingsheng Saibei Jiangnan, return huafa cangyan." "The gist is: I have been running around the north of the river all my life, and when I return to my hometown, my hair is gray and my face is old. And because the flowers are beautiful, the word "Hua" can be extended to "gorgeous", such as: "Survive in the House of Hua, and return to the hills." (The Biography of Xie An of the Jin Dynasty)
The character "hua" is a post-origin character, around the time of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the word "hua" was differentiated from the word "hua", Gu Yanwu said in the "Tang Yunzheng": "The character kaohua has been from the Southern and Northern Dynasties and above, and is not found in the book." Its original meaning is flower, which is later extended to be like something like a flower, a mixture of colors, hypocrisy, ambiguity, use, etc. After the appearance of the flower character, it did not completely replace the Chinese character immediately. Even in the Tang Dynasty, Chinese characters were widely used. For example, Zhang Jiuling's "Feelings" poem: "Orchid leaf spring leaves, Guihua autumn bright." Among them, "Guihua" means "Osmanthus Flower" (in many idioms, the word "Hua" is also retained, and the word "flower" is not used. Such as "flashy and unrealistic", "spring and autumn" and so on. First there is "Hua", then there is "flower", and this relationship between Hua and hua is also the relationship between ancient and modern characters. Huawei ancient characters, flowers for the present word. Of course, the ancient and the present are also relative, for example, before Qin was ancient, and after Qin is now. As far as Hua and Hua are concerned, the former Jin Dynasty is ancient, and after the Jin Dynasty, it is the present. In later generations, all the "Hua" that blossoms is written as "Hua", but not "Hua".
However, the word "Hua" has not completely disappeared and is still used in many places, such as "Hua" for local names and "Hua" for surnames, but both should be pronounced huà (化) here, and it is not correct to read huā (花). Of course, the most important usage of Hua is the use of "Zhonghua" and "Huaxia", which is also what we said at the beginning, for the use of "flower grower", whether it is from the evolution of the text, or its romantic meaning, or even the meaning of metaphor, it is an excellent use of Chinese characters.
Flower growers
The "flower grower" was originally because of the South China Sea arbitration case, and what made it spread rapidly was this sentence :"There is no regret in this life to enter China, and in the next life I am willing to be a flower grower." "Flower grower" is the consonant "Chinese family". So where did the word "Zhonghua" come from?
The "Hua" of "Zhonghua" is derived from the name of "Huaxia". Huaxia, the title of the oldest ethnic group in our Chinese nation, can be traced back to the first slave state in the history of the mainland, "Xia", that is, the "Xia Dynasty" at the forefront of the historical dynasty, which was about the 21st century BC to the 17th century BC.
"Hua", traditional Chinese writing "Hua", is an evolution of ancient hieroglyphs, the most fundamental meaning, very simple, is "flower". One of the several interpretations of "Huaxia" by modern people is to say that these two words refer to the "summer of flowers", that is, "the country of flower worship and named Xia".
In fact, the worship of flowers is to take the flowers of plants as the object of worship. Flowers, symbolizing reproduction and growth; The worship of flowers, that is, the hope for a good harvest and the prosperity of the people, is one of the most mainstream of the oldest "nature worship", mostly found in the plains or relatively flat areas, mainly agricultural production of tribes. And the shape of the "Xia" character oracle bone is like a dancer, which is the symbol of harvest celebration; There is also a big Yu Zhishui who says that the shape of the word "Xia" is like a farmer's rule.
Regarding the origin of the word "Zhonghua", there are folk wild histories, and the word "Zhonghua" was invented by Qin Shi Huang. It is said that after Qin Shi Huang unified the Seven Kingdoms, he set the name of the country as "Qin". "Qin" represented China at that time, but Qin Shi Huang felt that this title was not in line with his great achievements, just as he coined the word "emperor" to show his merits. He finally came up with the combination of the words "Zhong" and "Hua" to create the word "Zhonghua" to refer to his vast territory. Gradually, "Zhonghua" became synonymous with China.
At that time, there were many different statements and many controversies in the field of historiography, and the author's view on this was the recently popular sentence "There is no truth in history, only one truth remains." "We also said before when introducing Chinese characters that the original meaning of chinese characters, especially pictograms, must be reasonable, such as the shape of the oracle bone of the "Hua" character is the shape of the upper part like a flower, the lower part is the ti, and the "Xia" character oracle bone and gold text are derived from the "sun" worship. "Hua" is true, "summer" is prosperous, hoping for good weather, and then having a good harvest is the most rustic emotion at that time.
What makes the word "Zhonghua" deeply rooted in the hearts of the Chinese people is the phrase "expel the Tartars and restore China." ”
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Song Lian composed the "Edict of zhongyuan Zhongyuan" for Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty: "Since the ancient emperors came to the throne, all of Them were in China to control Yidi, yidi to live outside to serve China, and it was not heard that Yidi lived in China and ruled the world. Since the Song Dynasty moved, the north of the Yuan Dynasty entered China, and within the four seas, it did not surrender. At this time, the cycle of heavenly fortune, the prosperity of the Central Plains, the billions of trillions, when the saints are born, the Hu Yu is expelled, the Chinese nation is restored, the Chen Ji is established, and the people are relieved. If you cover my people of China, Heaven will command my People of China to be at peace, and Yi Di will be ruled by what he has. “
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Dr. Sun Yat-sen "expelled the Tartars, restored China, founded the Republic of China, and equalized land rights." The slogan of the Three People's Principles was used as the political program of the League.
Hua in calligraphy
Flowers in calligraphy