As the saying goes- "There are three joys in the house, and there are many people in the family." ”
The word "Xi" is basically the same from the oracle bone to the script. The upper part of "Hi" is "壴(zhù)", and "壴" is the pictographic initial text of "drum", like the shape of a drum.
The lower part is the "mouth", which refers to people. Taken together, it means: when the drums are sounded, everyone laughs.
It can be seen that the ancients were happy, and one of the reasons for this was caused by the sound of drums.
This determines that the original meaning of "joy" is "rejoicing" and "rejoicing".
Zhu Junsheng's "Speaking of Wen TongXun Dingsheng": "Wen Le (yuè) is le (lè), so it is from the mouth; the music is shaped by Tan Xiao, so it is from the mouth." ”
Zhu Junsheng's explanation is that when people hear the sound of drum music (yuè), they are happy; the word "joy" is derived from the "mouth" because people are happy and happy, often through the mouth used for talking and laughing.
The first thing we say is our loyal human friend, the dog.
Some scientists believe that dogs were domesticated from gray wolves by early humans, and domesticated between 40,000 and 15,000 years ago.
Known as "man's most loyal friend", it is the pet with the highest breeding rate, and its lifespan is about 12 to 18 years.
In Chinese culture, dogs belong to one of the zodiac signs and the 11th of the zodiac signs.
This second joy is the magpie that is loved by the people, and even the magpie has always been a symbol of good luck, and it is also a frequent visitor in the Spring Festival and New Year paintings.
"Joy" means happiness and joy, and can also be extended to a festive event.
People use "happy on the top of the eyebrows" to describe the joyful mood between the eyebrows, "overjoyed" to indicate beyond expectations, feel particularly happy, use "happy luck" to indicate auspiciousness, and the rain that falls after a long drought is called "happy rain".
The word "joy" is mostly related to festivities, which directly shows the atmosphere of the new marriage and is also the symbol of the wedding.
Chinese is also good at using glyphs to create meaning. The "double happy character " (囍)" is the best example.
This third joy is the swallow that often nests under the eaves, and the swallow represents the harmony and happiness of the family.
Some people have also made different analyses of the structure of "joy", believing that the upper part of the word "joy" is the shape of the drum, and the lower part is the shape of the base of the drum to indicate that there is a celebration, and the drum is played to celebrate.
The word "喜" appeared in the Shang Dynasty. The small seal evolved from the golden script.
In the Han Dynasty Lishu, "喜" or two "Ji" characters overlapping above and below the writing, which has factors affected by the meaning of the word;
Or write the "Ji" and "ancient" shapes under the "Ji", and the descendants of the double happy character are the left and right complexities of this shape; now the xi is the standard word.
The swallows return from the south, with a spring breath, heralding that your family's new year is as beautiful as the spring of the revival of all things. Therefore, he is regarded as the messenger of spring, the bird of good fortune.
Which three joys does this proverbial phrase refer to as "three joys"? It is conceivable that the difficulty of this saying lies in the "three joys" in the first half of the sentence, in fact, "three joys" refers to the three common animals in the lives of the ancients:
The first joy and magpies enter the house
In the name of "magpie", there is a "hi" word, and the call of the magpie is extremely beautiful and pleasant, which will bring people a pleasant feeling.
The ancients believed that when they heard the call of magpies, there would be beautiful things happening, and magpies were not only called magpies, but also called "annunciation birds" by the ancients.
In Chinese folklore, when getting married, a pair of "hi" characters are pasted in the new person's room. It is the meaning of joy and joy, double happiness at the door.
This double happiness is said to have been invented by Wang Anshi and was most common during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Nowadays, "囍" has almost become an indispensable word in the daily lives of Chinese people, because "囍" pins on the ardent hope of a newlywed couple of Yan'er for a happy and happy love life.
It carries the good wishes of parents, brothers, relatives and friends for the happy and harmonious marriage of relatives.
This word not only has a strong vitality, but also is popular and used very commonly.
The ancients thought that magpies entering the house were a good omen.
The second joy, wang dog to rich
The ancients believed that dogs are related to wealth, because the "Wang" in the dog bark is harmonious with the "Wang", which means prosperity and development.
Dogs were domesticated by wolves. As early as the hunter-gatherer era, people used domesticated dogs as hunting assistants. Therefore, dogs are considered to be the earliest domesticated domestic animals by humans.
No one knows exactly when the first human-wolf interaction occurred.
Some scientists think it may have been 50,000 years ago, because it took at least that long for wolves to develop the genetic differences they have today.
Humans and wolves were distributed in many places on the Earth's surface at the time, and evolutionary processes could occur in several different regions.
Some scholars believe that wolves were domesticated from wild wolves to domestic animals, i.e., dogs, from wild wolves 14,000 years ago, and possibly even in southeastern Asia 16,000 years ago, for playing, hunting, and nursing homes.
All species of dogs in the world currently originate from wolves domesticated in the southern Yangtze River Basin of China about 16,000 years ago. (Peter Saflenen, a scientist at the Royal Swedish Institute of Technology, confirmed the origin of dogs and when.)
Third joy, swallows around the beam
"In the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people."
It is intended to rely on the original power and prominence of Wuyi Lane to intimidate the wang xie and two surname families on one side, in order to lament the changeable life.
In the history of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Dao and Xie An were equally famous, Wang Dao was 44 years older than Xie An, and when the Wang family was in the sky, the Xie family did not dare to easily step into the door of the Wang family.
However, in the eyes of future generations, Xie An's fame was greater than that of Wang Dao.
The times have changed, the vicissitudes of the sea, the originally prosperous Wuyi Lane is now living in the homes of ordinary people, and the swallows have always had the ability to "recognize the nest".
Therefore, the author compares Wang Xie (Wang Dao and Xie An) to the returning milk swallow, which flies into the homes of ordinary people after reincarnation. Lament the impermanence of the world, the change of time.
The ancients believed that if there were swallows to build a nest, it was also a good symbol, which would herald great wealth and nobility.