The text "Ballad Zero": The widely circulated oracle bone "Fu" character Chunlian is actually written wrong! First of all, the Yinshang oracle bone does not have the word "Fu", and the word "Fu" first appeared in the Western Zhou Jinwen: in fact, this word, which is very similar to the ancient character "Fu", is actually a very cold word: 祼, pronounced [guan4]. The golden text of "Fu" is indeed a bit similar to the oracle bone "祼", but it is definitely different, where is the difference? In oracle bones, the word "祼" is very common. So what does "祼" mean? The oracle bones and gold texts use the word "祼" to mean "祼祭". As mentioned earlier, "Fu" first appeared in the Western Zhou Jinwen, and for thousands of years, the use of this word has not changed: Conclusion:

Yesterday, I saw a question on the Wukong Q&A: Someone asked what is this ancient script on the Spring League?

Obviously, even if you don't know the ancient script, you can roughly guess that this is likely to be a "fu" character.

I've also seen some of the respondents' answers, and they are very confident that this is the oracle bone word for "fu":

And cites a picture of Oracle to prove:

Another respondent quoted the calligraphy dictionary and also believed that it was the word "Fu", and I looked it up, and this respondent quoted the "Calligraphy Dictionary", page 1464 (Commercial Press version):

But this is completely wrong, this is not the "blessing" of the oracle bone, the person who compiled the calligraphy dictionary is mistaken, many calligraphers do not have academic training in paleography, and they follow the false rumors and add mistakes to the mistakes.

<h1>First of all, the Yinshang oracle bone does not have the word "Fu", and the word "Fu" first appeared in the Western Zhou Jinwen:</h1>

Citation: Li Xueqin, Ziyuan (2012, Tianjin Ancient Books Publishing House), p. 5

So what is the oracle bone quoted in the Great Dictionary of Calligraphy and the other two respondents?

The Great Dictionary of Calligraphy, p. 1464

<h1>In fact, this word, which is very similar to the ancient word "Fu", is actually a very cold word: 祼, pronounced [guan4]. </h1>

(It must be noted that this word is not "naked" for "naked", "naked" for "naked": from "cloth" from "fruit", "祼" from "show" from "fruit".) ）

If this oracle is ascribed to italics, the glyph should be:

"祼" is the post-morphing sound word for this word:

"Post-form sound characters" is the transformation of "pictographic Chinese characters" into shapes and sounds, which seems to be complex, but in fact it is simplified.

Because compared with the entire Chinese character system, the basic characters are reduced, and both shapes and sounds are available, which is easy to understand and remember. The fewer the basic characters of a script, the better and the easier it is to learn. (Note: This is just a "relative" statement, for example binary only has 0 and 1, but it is certainly not suitable for text)

I don't know if this meaning is easy to understand?

Let me give you an example: the ancient character "smell" is a hieroglyph, and the whole character is like the shape of "human hand listening to the ear", and later, it was transformed into a shape and sound character from "door" to "ear". "Door, ear" is a common underlying character that already exists.

The morphophonemic transformation of the ancient character "smell"

<h1>The golden text of "Fu" is indeed a bit similar to the oracle bone "祼", but it is definitely different, where is the difference? </h1>

The difference is that "祼" has "a pair of hands" and "Fu" does not, and the whole character of "祼" is like "a pair of hands holding the altar with the lid opened to pour wine", and the "show" part is added:

The intention of the word "祼"

The symbol of "hands" in many ancient scripts indicates human movements, and is called "moving symbols" in paleography.

The right half of the golden text of "Fu", "畐 (畗)", is "a jar", but there is no stroke indicating the "opening of the jar", nor the "hands" indicating the action of "pouring wine":

Ancient script of 畐 (畗):

The interpretation of the word 畐 (畗) is:

Shuwen: "Oh, Manya." From the high province, like the shape of the tall thick. All the genus of the genus is subordinate to the genus. Read Ruofu."

Xu Shen's explanation of the configuration is not quite correct, and Mr. Zhu Fangpu's "Yin Zhou Character Interpretation Series" is interpreted as: the character resembles a long-necked drum belly circle bottom instrument. "The vessel is a vessel that fills the middle because it symbolizes fullness."

That is to say, the hieroglyph "a jar full of things" means "full and surplus.".

<h1>In oracle bones, the word "祼" is very common. </h1>

The Oracle bone "祼" has a variety of forms: "one hand, two hands, no hand", but the strokes of the "altar opening" must be there, and some of the strokes are the same as the oracle bones that indicate the wine vessel "liter, bucket". Or there are strokes that say "wine poured out, spilled out".

The following is just a part of the glyph I quote from the Oracle Bone Compilation, with the character numbers 1316-1318:

Other forms:

Citation: Li Zongkun, Oracle Bone Script Editor (Zhonghua Bookstore, 2012), vol. 397-400

Fudan University's "New Oracle Bone Script Compilation" in the "祼" glyph:

Citation: Liu Zhao et al., New Oracle, eds. (2009, Fujian Ren Publishing House), pp. 9-10

The golden text of "祼" more clearly indicates the pictogram of the "opening of the altar":

Quoted from: [Elementary School] website

<h1>So what does "祼" mean? </h1>

In fact, from the ancient hieroglyphic symbols of "祼", we can guess that it is a ritual of sacrificing wine, and the kojin text means a kind of "sacrifice name".

The two "unearthed documents" and "heirloom documents" can corroborate and refer to each other:

Shang Shu. Luo Xuan" (羅诰): "The king enters the tai mule".

Kong Yingda "Shu": "Shu, shuye." The king sacrificed the corpse by drinking the wine of the sideburns, and the corpse was sacrificed and poured on the ground, because it was not drunk."

Citation: Hanyu Da Zidian, (second edition), p. 2570

<h1>The oracle bones and gold texts use the word "祼" to mean "祼祭". </h1>

Oracle such as:

"Oracle Bone Collection 13619": 癸子 (巳) Bu, 㱿鼎 (貞): 子漁疒 (病)目, 祼于父乙。

"ZiYu" is the son of Wu Ding, who suffered from an eye disease and used the "sacrifice" to sacrifice the father of the first king, Yi, to make himself better from the eye disease. "Father B" is the Shang King "Xiao B", who is Wu Ding's father, that is, Zi Yu's grandfather.

Oracle Collection 13619

Jin Wenru:

The Mao Gongding has the sentence "Give Ru Zhi Zhi Yi Jie, Zhi Gui Bao":

The "Oropedics" are some of the ritual vessels used in the "Ornitive Sacrifices" mentioned in the Shang Shu and the Book of Examination Workers quoted above. The "Straw Mane" was a kind of grain vanilla wine used in the Yin Zhou Dynasty for sacrifice and reward.

Among the "Nine Tins(Gifts)" that symbolized the highest reward in ancient times was the "Straw Fish".

Jiu Xi: carriage and horse, clothes, tiger ben, musical instrument, na majesty, zhuhu, bow arrow, cymbal, cabinet mane

The "nine tins" system did indeed originate from the Zhou rites, and the Western Zhou Jin texts often record that the Zhou kings used these gifts to reward the princes and ministers. However, after Wang Mang and Cao Cao of the Han Dynasty, the courtiers received the "Nine Xi" gifts, which became the rhythm of preparing for "usurpation".

<h1>As mentioned earlier, "Fu" first appeared in the Western Zhou Jinwen, and the use of this word has not changed for thousands of years:</h1>

Jin Wen example sentences such as the Western Zhou "ShiFu Zhong": Duofu Boundless:

"Yin Zhou Jinwen Integration 145"

<h1>conclusion:</h1>

So much evidence has been cited in order to make the conclusion impeccable: many people mistakenly regard the oracle bone "祼" as the oracle bone with the word "Fu" and write it on the Spring League.

The ancient characters of "祼" and "福" are indeed somewhat similar, but they can be completely distinguished, the most important difference:

The ancient character for "祼" resembles the form of "holding an altar with both hands and pouring wine for sacrifice".

"Fu" does not have a "hand (again)" symbol, "Fu" is a shape and sound and a ideographic word, and "畐" can be pronounced or ideographed.

I searched for it with Baidu, and this small error was very widespread, calligraphers, painters, commodities. And so on and so on. Just a few quotes:

Wrongly written oracle bone "Fu"

The custom of "sticking to the Spring Festival" with Chinese characters as the carrier, like the Western "Christmas tree", is the most iconic thing of the Chinese New Year: the Spring Festival.

The word "Fu" in the Spring League is so frequent and common that it has even become popular all over the world over the years!

"Fu" is the same as "virtue and qi", and there is no exact english equivalent that can be accurately translated

There are many ancient character variants of the Chinese character "Fu", and even dozens or hundreds of ways of writing can be found:

A collection of different ways of writing "Momofuku Diagram"

Because of its simple, vivid and powerful unique beauty, oracle bones have become the "darling" of many calligraphers:

However, if you want to write the word "Fu" in oracle bone, you must not write it in the shape of a glyph with "pour wine with both hands". We Chinese our most unique cultural symbols are all wrong.