"The grave is headless, the descendants are poor; the fox guards the grave, and the rich three generations."
It was first seen in the Sayings. The original meaning is tomb, which specifically refers to sealing the soil into a mound on the tomb. By extension, embankments, highlands, tall, etc.
The Shuowen is a key to understanding the study of Chinese culture, and the analysis of the written evidence is a necessary prerequisite for correct understanding and application.
The study of word evidence is one of the basic research tasks of today's science and is of great significance.
Chinese characters have a long and ancient history, one of the three oldest scripts in the world (cuneiform, Egyptian, Chinese characters) and the only ancient script in use of all three.
The study of Chinese characters has a history of at least 2,000 years since ancient times.
Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty expounded the theory of the Six Books on the construction of Chinese characters in the Shuowen Jiezi, and "referring to things" is a kind of six books.
Because the "Shuowen" has a relatively brief description of the boundaries of "pointing things" and has few examples, later scholars have different opinions on the definition of "pointing things" and there is no unified standard, which in turn leads to great differences in the judgment and inclusion of finger words.
In the Qing Dynasty's "Four Great Masters of Shuowen", Wang Yun and Zhu Junsheng each divided the finger characters in their works, but the example characters received by the two were quite different, and the same one was only 40 characters.
So, what does this proverbial phrase mean? What makes sense? Is it still useful today? A lot of people don't know it yet.
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Headless, from the Qing Dynasty Yuan Ming's "New Qi Harmonic Sima Of The Head", interpreted as no head, etc.
Head, originally a shape sound word, from the page, from the bean, bean also sound.
According to archaeological findings so far, the traditional character prefix first appeared on the Spring and Autumn Cai Guo bronze ware, accustomed to the Warring States literature, while the "shou" character was produced in the Shang Dynasty oracle bones.
Simplified characters were first seen in Juyan Han Jian, which is a cursive italicization of traditional characters, but it is rare in classics.
The first is a transliteration of the word "first", or a shaped sound word created due to differences in speech (or due to dialect sounds, or due to historical phonology), and its meaning is exactly the same as that of the word "first".
In feng shui, the ancients believed that "the grave has no head, the descendants are poor", which refers to the collapse or damage of the ancient tomb; the failure of the descendants to repair it in time also means that there is no good feng shui.
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Foxes are animals of the mammalian carnivorous canine family, commonly known as foxes, also known as red foxes, red foxes and grass foxes.
Their flexible ears can accurately locate sound, their sense of smell is sensitive, and their slender legs can run fast.
The top speed can reach about 50km/h, so it mainly feeds on fish, mussels, shrimp, crabs, rodents, birds, insects and small animals, and sometimes some plants.
In fact, fox is a folk name for this type of animal, there are many types, divided into arctic fox, red fox, silver fox, sand fox and so on.
Astute and timid, often appears as a "fox spirit" in ancient mythology, although it was also used as a totem in ancient times, it never appeared in formal sacrifices, all because of its "indecent image", mostly associated with cunning and sneaky.
Over the years, the fox demon fox fairy has formed a unique goblin culture in various novels and anecdotes.
Foxes live in forests, grasslands, semi-deserts, and hills, in tree or earth caves, and go out in the evening to forage for food, and do not return home until dawn.
Therefore, it can prey on all kinds of rats, hares, birds, fish, frogs, lizards, insects, etc., and can also eat some wild fruits.
Because it mainly eats rats and occasionally attacks poultry, it is an animal that benefits more than harms less;
When they pounce on their prey, their long, thick-haired tails help them maintain their balance, and the white hairs at the tip of the tail can confuse and disturb the enemy's line of sight.
The image of the fox in the story must not be the same as the behavior of the fox.
In the eyes of the ancients, all things have spirits, and foxes are creatures that are considered extremely spiritual.
The ancients believed that if foxes lived near the grave, it would not interfere with the deceased, but could kill rats, snakes, toads and other poisons near the grave, so that future generations would not be disturbed by poisons when sweeping the grave, and it would be safer.
In myths and legends, next to the tomb of the Yellow Emperor of Xuanyuan, there lived a group of foxes, one of which belonged to the three demons of Xuanyuan Tomb.
The ancients believed that the word "fox" of the fox was very similar to the word "rich" of "rich".
The fox guarded the grave, and the saying of the rich third generation was also passed down.