Children who love insects are attracted by the huge double horns of the spade armor and then indulge in it, and many adults are no exception. When I first started looking at entomology, only the detailed population information of large insects such as spade armor was outrageously detailed, and many enthusiasts put a lot of effort into it, which made many researchers marvel. For this reason, I also taught my children to know about shovels and nails to save a lot of effort.
However, every time a child who has just met a spade asks a soul question:
Why is the scientific name "spade armor"? Instead of the commonly known "fork worm (or fork fork armor)"?
In numerous sources and articles, many people may have made explanations: shovel armor, spade worm, the word "shovel" here comes from Japan, that is, the "spade shape" of the forehead part of the Japanese samurai armor stands forward, like a fork. Because the Japanese were the first in Asia to raise shovels as pets, their naming became popular in East Asia, so the name of the shovels in Taiwan used the term "spade worm".
Is there a deeper way to explain it more clearly like a child?
I began to look up the information, and finally traced back to an article, which should be Chinese the origin of the various naming explanations for spade armor in the media now:
The origin of the name "spade nails" and the middle name of the Chinese spade nail genus
Wan Xia Yang Xingke
(Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)
This article mentions two knowledge points:
1, the author believes that another term for "spade" refers to "the shape of the elytra of insects of this family is similar to the iron part of the shovel shovel." Whether the word "shovel" refers to "upper jaw" or "elytra" is not clearly defined in some of the more classic Japanese entomological literature.
2, many people in China have actually proposed to change "spade" to "deer", because whether it is a Latin scientific name or impression, "antlers" is more in line with some, but because of the convention, the name change work will not be done.
For the first point of knowledge, in fact, the author accidentally committed a question of historical fallacy.
This also explains why many people can't understand the word "shovel".
Our understanding of the word "shovel" will learn the word "shovel" from small textbooks, and the shape of the shovel is a kind of tool for shoveling soil in a semicircular rectangle, and the author can only think of the shape of the abdomen elytra of the spade armor similar to this, so it is attached. But this is obviously because the history of Chinese characters is not taken into account - since the "shovel" character is used by the Japanese, and it is an ancient decorative item called "shovel", they actually use the ancient meaning of the Chinese character "shovel".
Therefore, it is necessary to find the meaning of "shovel" in the historical origin of Chinese characters. Because a large part of the Chinese characters used in Japan are preserved in ancient Chinese, rather than modern Chinese.
(Modern shovels can also be found on Wikipedia, invented by the engineer Taylor after the Industrial Revolution, so they have nothing to do with the Japanese kanji "spade shape".) ）
Modern "shovel" is a common tool on construction sites, shoveling soil and mixing mud is very convenient, so what is the ancient "shovel"?
Generally, an ancient Chinese character can be queried, which can be found in the "Explanation of Characters in the Shuowen" in the early stage, and can refer to the "Kangxi Dictionary" in the later period. So we get two answers:
"Shovel" has only one interpretation in the Kangxi Dictionary: same as "鍫".
"Shovel" is not included in the textual interpretation, but future generations of studies should be the same as the ancient script "qiao".
The pronunciation of the character "鍫" (qiao), homophonous with "鍫", appears to be an iron instrument from its partial initials, which is explained in detail in the Kangxi Dictionary:
【Broad Rhyme】Seven Remote Cut [Collection Rhyme] Thousand Haruka Cut [Rhyme Meeting] Qian Yao Cut [Positive Rhyme] This remote cut, the sound. 【Jade Chapter】臿也。 [Yangtze dialect] 畚鍫也. Jianghuai Southern Chu idle said. [Collection rhyme] also book as a shovel.
"鍫", also known as "臿 (臿)" in the Gangnam region.
What is the word "臿"?
The ancient glyph of "臿" also shows what it looks like, as a thousand-year-old agricultural country in China, this Chinese character can clearly indicate an agricultural instrument - "臿".
When we get to the word "臿", we can see a more specific explanation:
1, shovel for digging soil.
"Han Feizi Wuyin": "The king of Yu is also the king of the world, and he is the first to be the first in the world."
2, mixed, interspersed.
The Book of Han, Vol. 57, Sima Xiangru Chuan: "Red flaws are refuted and mixed."
If we look closely at the word "insert", in fact, we can also think of "insert" as an action, on the one hand, next to the handle, on the other side should be some kind of instrument, and this instrument can also be called "鍫" or "喿" and "鍤" and all other variants and synonyms.
(The picture shows the Qing Dynasty geographer Zou Hanxun's "Seven Kinds of Testaments of Zou Shuzi", a collation and study of the characters "臿" in the dialect)
But what does the "umuroy" look like?
In fact, although ancient agricultural tools were called different names in different regions, the shapes and systems were actually no different from each other, and in the Iron Age, they invariably added "next to the golden word" and became words with different meanings. "臿" is a Jiangnan dialect, put in the Central Plains, that is, "耜 (si si sounds)", in the "Explanation of The Interpretation of The Text": "耜, 臿也".
So, what is the shape of lei (lei three sounds) 耜, 耒, in ancient cultural relics?
Wait, what did I see, and why is "Tung" like this?
In fact, this is where "spade" really comes from.
The last picture, the mystery is all solved.
Whether it is "耒耜" or "耒耟" in "Han Feizi", the ancient farming action is divided into two steps: first use "臿" or "耜", "insert" into the land, "insert" two holes, put in seeds, and then use "耒" to shovel soil to cover the seeds. From the picture, it seems that "耒" is closer to today's shovel, but the "shovel" in the Japanese kanji should be "耜" and "臿".
In fact, even in modern Chinese, the action of "inserting" is more deeply rooted in people's hearts, but we never thought that its "臿" department originally had such a long history.
There is also the origin of the "spade shape" to be deciphered today.
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After a puzzled investigation of the information, I finally learned the origin of the so-called "shovel" of the Japanese.
In fact, in the japanese samurai helmet front stand, there are not only "shovel shapes", but also various animal forms, which are already equivalent to totems.
https://www.gcores.com/articles/26369
The article on the core of the machine talks about the various shapes of the front of the Japanese samurai helmet (in fact, it is also the origin of the "pocket" of the hood worm), which is dazzling and breathtaking. For this reason, I have a new question: is the "spade shape" a totemic recognition of ancient Chinese agricultural tools, or are they just using spade armor as a totem?
This may not be known.
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