A person is high up and points or presses another person who is kneeling on the ground, reprimanding or demanding this kneeling person. This kneeling man grovels, does not dare to resist, and has no ability to resist, but can only obey the will of the one who is on high, obey orders, and only promise.
To depict this situation and this scene is the word "suppression" in the oracle bone inscription.
The upper part depicts a hand stretched out from a height, and the lower part depicts a person kneeling on the ground, which together resembles a person pressing down on the head of another person with his hand to make him submit, which means "the act of forcing the thoughts and actions of others to be 'identical' with one's own thoughts and intentions." Because the core of its meaning is "same", it is pronounced "yi". This is in line with the original meaning of "yi": "single, same, unified". It can be seen that the Chinese characters are "phonetic and synonymous", and the Chinese language is simple and easy to learn, and has strong regularity.
Since human history, people have had hierarchies. Especially since the beginning of the slave society, human society has produced rulers and the ruled, oppressed and oppressed. The creation of the word "suppression" and the image it represents and the meaning of its representation also prove this point. At the same time, it can be seen that Chinese characters are "holographic" characters, which are not only an organic combination of sound, shape and meaning, but also have a sense of picture, which allows you to see the situation of society or nature at that time.
That's interesting, right?
Attached: "Oracle Bone Story" creation talk
Yang Hanli
Since I was a child, I have been very interested in traditional Chinese culture, including the Chinese language, and as my knowledge and life experience have become more and more abundant, I have become more and more aware of the infinite charm of the Chinese language. Our Chinese language is a great language composed of about 400 monosyllabic morphemes, and Chinese characters are words with the unity of sound, shape and meaning, which can help us get a glimpse of many mysteries of the universe, nature and human beings, and achieve the greatest purpose with the least resources, which embodies the remarkable characteristics of Chinese culture "the road to simplicity". As the Tao Te Ching says: "Those who have obtained one in the past will have a clear sky and a peaceful earth." "Saying Wen Jie Zi" Yiyun: "But at the beginning of Taiji, the Tao stands in one." ”
But many people feel that Chinese is difficult to learn, and I think it is because they have not found a pattern. Since the Chinese language has the characteristics of "the road to simplicity", then it must have the most concise rules, so I studied the most concise and essential rules of Chinese with others. Based on the principle of "sound synonymous and near", with oracle bone inscription as the entry point, encyclopedic knowledge as the support, and with the southern dialect represented by the same dialect as a reference (the southern dialect is more ancient, I am a fellow person, and the most familiar southern dialect is the same dialect, so the same dialect is selected as a reference), and the 940,000-word linguistic monograph "Huitong Dialect and Simple Chinese Character Studies" was formed in cooperation with others, which was finally published by the China Social Sciences Press in April 2014, and was affirmed and supported by many linguistics experts such as Mr. Li Xueqin, a master of ancient characters.
In order to let more people understand the conciseness and ease of learning Chinese, the column "Oracle Bone Stories" is now opened; In order to make the interpretation of Chinese characters closer to the original meaning, this column uses the oracle bone inscription, the earliest mature Chinese character found so far, to interpret Chinese characters. In order to make learning Chinese interesting and easy to remember, this column uses the form of short stories to make the explanation of Chinese characters in oracle bone inscriptions easy to understand.
I hope that you will correct and sincerely ask readers to put forward comments and suggestions.
【About the author】Yang Hanli, a member of the Hunan Provincial Writers Association, together with the chairman of the Co-appreciation Culture Company, has published nearly 600 literary works and more than 500 pieces of news, research papers, calligraphy and photography, published 5 literary collections, won many prose and prose poetry competitions such as the National Ouyang Xiu Prose Award, and was selected into dozens of national literary works anthologies, and his Chinese prose collection "Dong Time" was specially supported by the China Writers Association, including 15 episodes of "Yandi Hometown Cultural TV Lecture" and "Yandi Hometown in Huitong" He co-authored 940,000 words of "Tongtong Dialect and Simple Chinese Character Studies" and "Interior Furnishing Design and Environmental Art" (planning textbook for environmental art majors of higher vocational colleges), and edited many picture albums and literary books. Participated in the planning and organization of large-scale activities such as commemorating the centenary of Su Yu's birth and the first national cultural seminar with Emperor Yan.