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The Chinese New Year is about to begin, and I want to send a holiday greeting to my relatives and friends, so I wrote a sentence "I wish you a happy family!"
Is that right?
As a high-frequency greeting for the New Year, the family is happy, everything goes well, and all wishes come true, and it is definitely at the top of the list.
But whether to use "family happiness" or "family happiness" has made many netizens difficult.
As everyone knows, "family" and "family" are actually two very different words, and if you accidentally use the wrong one when sending blessings in the New Year, it is likely to make jokes.
So, are you using it right?
Don't look at the same pronunciation of "阖家" and "合家", but the meaning of the words is completely different.
This brings us to the breadth and profundity of our Chinese characters.
As an important carrier of Chinese culture, from the earliest oracle bone inscription to today's simplified Chinese characters, Chinese characters not only run through the 5,000-year history of the Chinese nation, but also the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation.
As Chinese, we don't think there is anything Xi Chinese writing since elementary school, but for foreigners, Chinese is definitely the most difficult language in the world to learn Xi.
Any Chinese test on the Internet can confuse foreigners.
And the same is true of the "close" and "close" that we want to talk about today.
"合" first appeared on the oracle bone inscription, like the opening and closing of the lid of the vessel, but there has been a lot of debate in the academic community about whether its origin is a huiyi character or a pictograph.
However, as for the meaning of "he", everyone's opinion is still very consistent, that is, it means the exchange rate and gathers together.
Later, it is extended to refer to closure, and then to aggregation, rendezvous, and then to whole, whole.
As for the close, the explanation of the closed in "Shuowen Jiezi" is: closed, the door leaf also.
The explanation in "Yunhui" is: Double is closed, and the door is closed.
It means that if there are two gates in the house, it is called "closed door", and one gate is called "one door".
The door is used to close the door, so the door was later extended to close, close, and later extended to total, complete, referring to the whole in the portal.
Therefore, in the meaning of "total, complete", "he" and "close" are synonyms, and it is precisely because of the similar meanings that everyone will confuse "family happiness" with "family happiness".
Which is the right family fun or family fun?
In fact, there is no right or wrong between "family fun" and "family fun".
Because these two words themselves represent two different meanings, but if you don't figure out the specific context of their use when using them to send blessings, it is still easy to make jokes.
The happy "close" of the family has the meaning of the double door of the mansion, and it is also the door with the sound of "closing", so it corresponds to the ancient wealthy family, after all, although the door of the small door also has a double leaf, but it lacks a heavy background, and there is no sound of "opening and closing".
Therefore, at the beginning of the birth of the family, there was a certain class concept, and in ancient times, under the influence of Confucianism, the more high-ranking families obeyed the etiquette and etiquette, coupled with the large population of high-ranking families, when they needed to visit relatives and friends during the New Year's holidays, they naturally could not see every relative and friend one by one, and they needed to express their blessings to their whole family with a blessing language.
So, family fun appeared.
Because this blessing carries a sense of formality and respect, if the other party is a high-ranking family, they will feel that the other party's blessing is very satisfactory; if the other party is a small family, hearing such a blessing will also feel that the other party is very uplifting themselves, and it can double the blessing.
As for family happiness, in fact, it is the same as family happiness, and it also means to wish the other party's whole family happiness.
It's just that it appears more in more casual occasions and colloquial expressions, and is generally used between peers to express a sense of closeness.
Therefore, during the festival, if you are sending blessings to elders or leaders, the use of "family" can better reflect the respect of the person who sent the blessing, and it has a sense of solemnity.
If it is a good relationship with colleagues and friends, the family will be too grand and not cordial enough, and it is better to have a happy family.
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