The common belief of Chinese people at home and abroad is the god Baosheng The Great, whether the name is "Wu Meng" or "Wu Ben", which has been debated endlessly for more than a hundred years, and the answer was finally given in the 14th Baosheng Cultural Festival held yesterday. Haicang District officially announced to the public that "Wu Ben" will be used as the only name of Baosheng Emperor, and at this point, the baosheng Emperor's name "Ben" Qingyuan, which is more than a hundred years late, has officially ended successfully.
Professor Chen Zhiping of the 14th Baosheng Cultural Festival delivered a speech for the correct name
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The Baosheng Emperor Faith is one of the native beliefs of the southern Fujian region, originating from qingjiao and Baijiao at the intersection of the two cities of Xiamen and Zhangzhou, and historically the area is also the junction of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, two major branches of Southern Fujian culture. With the journey of the Minnan people across Taiwan and the South China Sea, the baosheng emperor's faith also crossed the strait throughout Taiwan Province, and even spread south throughout Southeast Asia, and then became a faith all over the world. Baosheng culture is not only the business card of the humanities of Haicang and Zhangzhou, but also the common spiritual support and nostalgia of thousands of chinese and overseas Chinese at home and abroad.
Tracing back to the origin of the faith, after the death of Emperor Baosheng during the Reign of Emperor Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, during the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, he was already an inter-provincial deity of "capturing Puyang, Changle and Jianjian in the north, and Tingchao to Erguang in the south" and "Suiyu Suichuang", and its source was the two ancestral palaces of Qingjiao and Baijiao at the intersection of Zhangquan. At that time, in order to facilitate the experience and order of the faithful to enter the incense, the two houses of Zhangquan adopted the method of also dividing the houses into separate palaces, such as the Zhangzhou capital to the Qingjiao Tzu Chi Palace into incense, and the Quanzhou capital to the White Reef Tzu Chi Palace, which continued for nearly a thousand years, until the restrictions were lifted when the zoning of Qingjiao and Baijiao was changed again. This also led to the fact that Baosheng The Great believed that there were two ancestral lands.
White Reef Tzu Chi Palace
Qingjiao Tzu Chi Palace
Haicang is not only the location of the Tzu Chi Palace on Qingjiao and the host of this Baosheng Cultural Festival, but also the main distribution place of the beliefs of Baosheng The Great. Baosheng The Great believes in the most important folk " four palaces and one courtyard " , founded in the Song Dynasty , in addition to the Cixi Palace in Baijiao, the other four are located in Haicang, such as the Tzu Chi East Palace in Qingjiao, the Tzu Chi North Palace in Wencuo, the Ci-Jinan Palace in Yuanyao, and the Yuzhen Court in Ziyao. Among them, Qingjiao Tzu Chi Palace, as one of the two important ancestral palaces of the Baosheng Emperor's faith, in addition to its ancestral culture, is also known as the "Five National Treasures", and its names are "National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit", "National Intangible Cultural Heritage", "Fujian Provincial Folk Faith Activity Site Contact Point", "Cross-Strait Exchange Base", "Chinese Overseas Chinese International Cultural Exchange Base", etc., which is a cultural highland integrating Tzu Chi culture and overseas Chinese and Taiwan culture. Therefore, in inheriting and carrying forward the Culture of Baosheng, Haicang naturally has to bear the main responsibility, and the name of Emperor Baosheng is one of the main tasks.
Qingjiao Tzu Chi Palace Five National Treasure Cards
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Historically, Haicang, where Qingjiao is located, is under the jurisdiction of Haicheng County, the capital of Zhangzhou, while the part of Jiaomei where Baijiao is located belongs to Tong'an County, Quanzhou Province, and the surviving fuzhi and county records of Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Haicheng and Tong'an prefectures and counties are all expressed as "Ben", and there is no writing of "夲". These first-hand local historical records are also often cited by the geographical records, Fang Zhi, literati notes, palace and temple inscriptions of the same period, such as the "Chronicle of Changtai County" and the "Monument of Wurong Tzu Chi Palace", which are also recorded as "Ben".
During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, Yang Jun, a native of Jinjiang, for the first time put forward the theory that The surname of Emperor Baosheng was "夲" in his book "Four Divine Zhiluo And Baijiao Zhiluo", and he also specially noted "yin nag" under the word, and quoted the explanation of the "夲" glyph "from ten from the big" in the "Shuowen Jiezi". As soon as Yang Jun's "夲" was published, it immediately attracted countless attention, and Huang Jiading, a native of Yinxian County, Zhejiang Province, and the Maxiang Hall, also made a "Wu Zhenren Fact Title Examination", in which he supported Yang Jun's statement and said, "夲, from the big from the tenth, Zhu Zhi made more books, and was wrong." Huang Jiading also wrote the article into the "Chronicle of the Hall of Ma Xiang", in which he participated in the compilation, thus making it a case of support for the "夲" theory in cheng and tong local chronicles.
Since then, with the development of the times, people's titles for Baosheng The Great have begun to diversify, from the early "Wu Zhenren", "Daogong", etc. to a variety of names, and the "Wu Ben" and "Wu Mao" who directly call his name have also become two juxtaposed names. By the 1980s and 1990s, folk religious activities resumed, and research on the beliefs of Emperor Baosheng began to heat up, and some literary and historical experts put forward the idea that Baosheng Emperor's name was "夲" without in-depth study of other local documents, including local history, after "accidentally" obtaining the "Four Divine Zhiluo", and took this form as an academic achievement. Because "夲" is a strange word, there are few people who know it, the formulation is novel, and there is a documentary basis, it is regarded as an academic achievement, which is quite eye-catching, and some experts and scholars recognize and push it, and the "夲" statement begins to have an impact, and even later catches up, up to Baidu Encyclopedia, official documents, down to children who are new to big characters, all of them know.
A progress chart of the coexistence of this and the history of the Tsuki
In the process of understanding the dispute over the name of Emperor Baosheng, the Minnan Cultural Research Association of Haicang District found the following three points worth noting:
(1) Some expert citations add subjective cognition and mislead readers. For example, in the "Compilation of Religious Inscriptions in Fujian", the author ignores the "Ben" character used in the original text of the literature and the original stele stone, and uses "夲" in his quotations or works, that is, the phenomenon that the quotation is not loyal to the original text. His treatise was again quoted by later generations, and this fallacy influenced a large number of hindsighters. Such a misconception of false rumors has become a new obstacle to clarifying the name.
(2) Baidu Encyclopedia, Toutiao Encyclopedia, Sohu, Google and other Internet portals, as well as local newspapers and periodicals in Xiamen, television and radio programs, self-media and other media or propaganda units, when introducing Baosheng The Great, without sufficient examination, quote the word "夲" and add "tao, Yin Tao", or in the original intention of understanding readers and seeking common ground while reserving differences, juxtaposed the two statements, gradually making the word "夲" accepted by the public.
(3) In the cultural exchange of Baosheng The Great, the public often does not pay special attention to the name of Baosheng The Great, directly quoting words from online media such as Baidu Sohu, and even negating the established sayings of the temple in the past, blindly following and following the trend is obvious, and there is a great tendency to accumulate heavy burdens and difficult to return.
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The examination of the name of Baosheng Emperor is related to the inheritance and promotion of Baosheng culture, which is not a trivial matter, let alone a bull's horn. Under the guidance of the Haicang District CPPCC Committee, the Haicang District Minnan Cultural Research Association joined hands with the Qingjiao Tzu Chi Ancestral Palace to consult documents, seek advice from fang families, visit elderly people, and actively carry out investigations and studies, based on evidence such as literature and history and the recognition of believers, aiming to restore the original appearance closest to the facts. The views of both sides of the names "Ben" and "夲" are hereby stated as follows.
(1) The rationale for the name "Ben"
1. The official chronicle records:
As the birthplace of the Baosheng Emperor's belief, Haicheng County, which originally belonged to Zhangzhou Prefecture, and Tong'an County, Quanzhou Province, are also the most important distribution places for the Baosheng Emperor's faith, especially in Jishanli, where Qingjiao is located and Baijiao, where the number of Temples of Baosheng The Great ranks first, and far exceeds the second. Therefore, the famous record of Baosheng The Great is the most authoritative in the Zhishu of the two counties and two provinces, so it is used as an example. Whether it is the Chongzhen edition, the Kangxi edition, and the Qianlong edition of the Haicheng County Chronicle and its superior's "Zhangzhou FuZhi", or the Kangxi edition, the Jiaqing edition, and the Republic of China edition of the Tong'an County Chronicle and its superior's "Quanzhou Fuzhi", the name of Baosheng the Great is written as "Ben".
2. Important literature:
Among the surviving materials of Emperor Baosheng, the earliest date and more detailed records are the two-party Tzu Chi Palace reconstruction stele written during the Southern Song Dynasty, one of which was written by Yang Zhi of Zhangzhou for the Ancestral Palace of Qingjiao Tzu Chi, the other was made by Zhuang Xia of Quanzhou for the Ancestral Palace of Tzu Chi at Baijiao, and the two stele were recorded as "Ben" in Chengzhi.
Yang Zhi's Monument to Tzu Chi Palace
Nanmen Street, Nan'an City, Quanzhou, is the moat river basin of Gufengzhou City. It is located near the "Wurong Tzu Chi Palace", which was built in the Southern Song Dynasty, dedicated to The Baosheng Emperor Wu Zhenren, is the earliest temple in Nan'an City for Wu Zhenren, and is now a cultural relics protection unit in Nan'an City, and there are Ming Wanli and Qing Shunzhi monuments in the temple. Among them, engraved in the "Wu Zhenren Shi Shu Dao Guo Stele" engraved in the thirty-ninth year of the Ming Wanli Calendar (1602), it is clearly stated that "the name is known as the book, the character Huaji".
Wu Zhenren ShiShu Dao Fruit Monument
According to the "Shimen Family Tree Quotation" of Wu Clan of Gande Township, Anxi County, the ancestral home of Emperor Baosheng, the name of Emperor Baosheng is "Ben". In 2008, the "Shimen Yuhu Hall, the Ancestral Birthplace of Baosheng Emperor", compiled and printed by the Management Committee of Shimen Yuhu Hall in Gande Town, Anxi County, clearly pointed out that the name of Baosheng Emperor was "Ben" and the word "夲" was wrong.
The "Ancient Genealogy of the Baishi Ding Clan" by Ding Cuo of Jiaomei Town, Longhai District, is a famous genealogy that has been handed down in Zhangzhou to this day, which preserves many local historical materials from the Tang and Song dynasties. The genealogy records that Emperor Baosheng copied poems for his ancestors, and its inscription is "Quanjiaojiang Puyang Busu Wu Ben was ordered to worship the book", and the name left behind is also written as "Ben".
3. Inscription of the prefect of Taiwan
In the Xingji Palace of the Tainan Ancestral Ceremony, the inscription of Zhou Maoqi, the two governors of Taiwan during the Tongzhi and Guangxu Dynasties, is engraved with the inscription of the pillar link: Shanglian "Bingbi Ugly Yuanchen Medicine God Song Shi Missed Fang Zhi Chuan, Xi Dynasty Cultivation Ceremony Xin Xiang Shuo Looked at the Qing Dynasty Co-sacrifice Guanyin Pavilion", meaning that the author of the ("History of Song") ignored the two Yuanchen of the Song Dynasty, and the "Fang Ju Biography" of the "History of Song" also omitted the medical god Baosheng The Great; the Qing Dynasty Baosheng Emperor enjoyed the ceremony, and the 15th of each month was combined with the Guanyin Pavilion as a sacrifice. The inscription of the couplet reads " God was born in the fourth year of the Song Taiping Revival, and was named after the Longtu Pavilion to be made by Fanyang Xiongbo ..." Comparing the "Kumamoto" entry in the "History of the Song Dynasty" in volume 334 of the "Four Libraries of the King's Ding Dynasty": "Kumamoto, zi Botong, Fanyang people...", Xiong Botong's name is "Ben", which is also another example of Taiwan's folk palace temple providing another example of the name "Ben" of Emperor Baosheng.
Zhou Maoqi's inscription of the column
"History of song" "Kumamoto" entry
4. Association of name and word:
According to the interpretation, "Ben, Ganye, Jiye", the "base" of the Wuzhen character "Huaji", is related to the name "Ben".
5. Brotherhood of the Name:
In the ancestral shrines of Qingjiao Tzu Chi Ancestral Palace and White Reef Tzu Chi Ancestral Palace, wu Zhenren's parents and brothers are enshrined, namely the Holy Father and Holy Brother. According to legend, the name of the holy brother is "Wu Gen", the name of the brother is "Ben", and the name of the brother is "Root", which is in line with the characteristics and traditions of the traditional Name of Kunzhong.
6. Place of birth character avoidance:
In the 1950s, in Baijiao Village, the birthplace of Emperor Baosheng, when the Wang family discussed adding a family order, it was originally intended to use the five characters of "Li Yi Family", but because some people proposed that the word "Ben" offended the name of Baosheng Emperor, it was not used. This incident confirmed the view that the ancestral land of Baijiao held the name of Emperor Baosheng at that time.
7. Calligraphy and writing habits:
In the traditional way of writing, the "Ben" character line and cursive style can be written into the "夲" character of "up and down ten", which is not a typo, but a traditional custom. But conversely, the word "夲" cannot be written as "ben".
8. Strange words and common words:
Throughout the ages, the character 夲 has been a strange word, and many times it has been used as the word "ben". From the Northern Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, the proportion of ordinary people reading and literacy was much lower than today, and it was extremely rare for ordinary people to know the word "夲", so it was less likely that the name would use the strange word "夲".
9. Expert Examination:
In view of the name of Emperor Baosheng, some experts and professors have written articles to correct it, such as Fang Wentu's "Discussion on the Name of Wu Zhenren", Xiao Chunlei's "Baosheng Emperor's Name and Surname: Wu Ben and Wu Mao", Sun Xiaozhong's "Examination of Wu Zhenren's Name", and other views on the word "Ben". Mr. Hong Buren, Mr. Lin Xiaofeng, Mr. He Bingzhong, Mr. Chen Zhiping, Mr. Peng Yiwan, Mr. Gong Jie, Mr. Lian Xinhao, Mr. Duan Lingping, Mr. Lin Derong, Mr. Li Qiyu and other experts in southern Fujian literature and history also believe that the name of Baosheng The Great should be "Ben". In this year's Baosheng Cultural Festival, Mr. Chen Zhiping, as the representative of the expert group, made a correct speech at the meeting, the full text of which is as follows:
Baosheng The Great, a famous doctor in southern Fujian during the Northern Song Dynasty, was born in Baijiao, practiced medicine in Qingjiao, based on Wenpu Mountain, and was revered as a medical god after his death. Since the Song Dynasty was clear and clear, he was praised many times and was finally enshrined as the "Baosheng Emperor". From the divine doctor to the medical god, and then to the omnipotent emperor, it has become one of the largest beliefs in Fujian and Taiwan, and there are now more than 2,000 temples of the Baosheng Emperor in Fujian and Southeast Asia, with nearly 100 million believers. Xiamen Haicang is one of the birthplaces of Baosheng culture, and the beliefs and customs of Baosheng The Great have been listed as national intangible cultural heritage projects and become a shining humanistic business card of Haicang.
In recent years, the Haicang District Government has taken an active role in inheriting the excellent traditional culture and carrying forward the culture of southern Fujian, especially in carrying forward the Baosheng culture and the Kaitai culture, and has made outstanding contributions to the 14th Baosheng Tzu Chi Cultural Tourism Festival, which has become a grand event for cross-strait people-to-people exchanges and a key exchange project of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council; it has promoted the work of correcting the name of Emperor Baosheng, built the Kaitai Cultural Park, filmed the documentary "Kaitai Wang Yan Siqi" and broadcast it on CCTV, promoted Yan Siqi to expand the history of Taiwan into the middle school to compile teaching materials, and organized the compilation of the "Baosheng Emperor's Name" work, built the Kaitai Cultural Park, filmed the documentary "Kaitai Wang Yan Siqi" and broadcast it on CCTV, promoted Yan Siqi to expand the history of Taiwan into the middle school to compile teaching materials, and organized the compilation of the "". Cangjiang Bunko" series of books, has published "Zhou Qiyuan Biography Collection Supplement" and "Remembering the Sea Cang" and other five series, these works, piece by piece, have been widely recognized and praised by the society.
As a scholar of folk beliefs, I have witnessed the exchange of folk beliefs between the two sides of the strait over the past thirty or forty years, and I would like to take this opportunity to give a big praise to the Haicang District Government for its fruitful achievements in promoting the culture of preserving life and promoting exchanges with Taiwan!
From Tzu Chi Ancestral Land to Baosheng Cultural Highland, and using this as a front for exchanges with Taiwan, Haicang District has taken the initiative to take the initiative to take the initiative to build a Baosheng Cultural Highland. In order to promote the better promotion and development of Baosheng culture, Haicang District has recently embarked on the collation and compilation of the "Baosheng Culture Series Of Books", and will organize experts to compile it from the aspects of Baosheng History, Baosheng Palace Temple, Baosheng Medicine and Baosheng Literature, which we will give strong support. In order to straighten out the promotion and promotion of Baosheng culture, in the past six months, under the leadership of Chairman Cao Fang, the Cultural and Historical Committee of the CPPCC District Committee, together with the Minnan Cultural Research Association of Haicang District and the Qingjiao Tzu Chi Palace, has actively carried out the work of examining and identifying the name of Baosheng The Great, and I have had the privilege of witnessing this process. After many studies and field investigations such as historical materials and experts, the historical materials of Baosheng Emperor's name "Ben" are detailed and more in line with historical facts. We believe that the "essence" of the source and the promotion of the baosheng emperor's name rectification activities have far-reaching significance for the inheritance and promotion of baosheng culture. These efforts are very meaningful, and we will continue to fully support them. Here, I would like to give a big praise for the promotion of Minnan culture in Haicang District!
Emperor Baosheng blesses us all with happiness and good health, auspicious and auspicious wishes! Thank you.
(2) The rationale for the name "夲"
1. The "Biography of The White Reef Chronicles" records:
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Yang Jun's "Biography of Baijiao Zhiluo" (Qing Guangxu DingHai Nian GuanGuan Repentance Hall, volume I) contains: "The god's surname is Wu Mingyu (from the great from the ten tones), the character Huaji, the number Yun zheng, Quanzhou Tong'an Jishan li people." Yang Jun specially added the word "夲" as "from the big from the ten tones", and the characters and sounds are clearly described, which is different from "ben". This is one of the sources of the Ming Dynasty's pronunciation and shapes of "tao" and "夲" (Figure 22).
2. Appendix to the Chronicle of the Hall of Horse Lane
In the "Chronicle of the Hall of Ma Xiang", which was supplemented in the nineteenth year of Guangxu, its appendix is a compilation of the article "Examination of the Fact Of Wu Zhenren Titles" by Qing Huang Jiading), in which "the god's surname is Wu Mingyu, (from the Great Congshi Ten Yin, Zhu Zhi Duo's manuscript, mistakenly), the same as the "White Reef Zhiluo • Biography".
"Horse Lane Hall Chronicle"
3. Change words to avoid secrecy:
The ancients had the custom of avoiding the names of monarchs and elders, and Wu Zhenren was honored by the real people and the king and the emperor. In order to avoid the name of the emperor, the believers turned the "ben" to the word "夲" when writing, and read it as "tao" when reading, which is actually a relatively simple method of avoiding secrecy.
4. The custom of taking a lowly name, the meaning of "夲" in the southern Fujian dialect has the meaning of "忑 knot" (stupid).
Folk have the custom of taking "untouchable names" in the hope that children will be strong in the future, that is, "the name is cheap and good to feed", such as "A cat, dog leftovers" and so on. In the southern Fujian dialect, "夲" has the meaning of "忑 knot" (stupid, 戆消), which is in line with the custom of taking a lowly name.
5. Inference of indecent consonant "no origin":
Some people have the same Mandarin pronunciation as "Wu Ben" as "Wu Ben", which means ominous, so it is inferred that the name of the emperor will not be "Ben", but the word "夲".
6. The Legend of Longchi Rock:
According to folklore, before Emperor Baosheng took the name, the Virgin Huang Yuehua prayed with her hands folded at the Longchi Zen Temple (Baijiao Village, Taitou District, Zhangzhou), and the Holy Father Wu Tong took the emperor's single name from the "big" character of the Great Compassion Hall, and the "ten" of the Mother of God's hands together to form the word "夲".
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(1) Literature comparison of the provenance of the name:
When the official revision of the Zhishu, there are relatively strict requirements for editing and reviewing, and the handling personnel are generally led by well-known jinshi in the local or neighboring areas, and are compiled by gathering learned children and students, so Fang zhi is generally a more authoritative and credible document in various places. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, each edition of the "Haicheng County Chronicle", "Tong'an County Chronicle", and related fuzhi, each addition and re-revision is a re-proofreading and supplement of the previous version, if there is an error in the previous chronicle, it will be explained in the "Correction" chapter or added or deleted in the original chapter. However, in this type of chronicle, the name of Baosheng The Great has always used the word "Ben", which has a high degree of credibility; and the "White Reef Zhiluo" was published in 1887 as one of the "Four Divine Zhiluo" compiled by the late Qing Dynasty scribe Yang Jun, which is a summary of the data on the original gods of Quanzhou Province, which is more subjective, and the "Maxiang Hall Zhi" compiled at the same time adopts Yang Jun's point of view, which is the only two cases recorded in the literature, representing only the words of one family and not the general content.
(2) The relevance of the name and the word:
When the ancients used words by name, they generally considered the similarity of the meanings of the two. For example, Du Fu, the character is beautiful, Fu is beautiful; the emperor's word "Huaji" corresponds to "ben", but it is incompatible with "夲".
(3) The harmonic expression of "no origin" is insufficient:
The name comes from the subjective willingness of the parents to take the name. Since the Song Dynasty, the people of southern Fujian, who live in a remote southeastern corner, have used more Southern Fujian dialect than Mandarin. The pronunciation of "Wu" and "none" in the Southern Fujian dialect is not the same. If Emperor Baosheng's parents had spoken Mandarin and thought that the harmonic sound "no root" was indecent, it would have been impossible to name the holy brother "Wu Gen" with the harmonic sound "no root". Therefore, it can be considered that the harmonic sounds of "Wu Ben" and "Wu Gen" in the Hokkien dialect do not exist, which is also far-fetched with the saying that the Hall of Great Compassion is called "夲" in the palm of the Great Compassion Hall.
(4) The character "Ben" is often written in calligraphy in the form of "夲":
Among the various types of existing calligraphy works, it is almost certain that all those who write the character "夲" are all this character, such as Zhao Mengfu's "Preface to the Dingwu Lanting Pavilion", and the near ones are like Chiang Kai-shek's handwriting, and the list goes on. As for the inscriptions and links of some palaces and temples, if there is a "夲" glyph, under the circumstances of the time, it also refers to the word "Ben".
"Dingwu Lanting Preface"
Handwritten by Chiang Kai-shek
"Ben" is so easy to write as "夲", so it is no wonder that there are many words "Wu 夲" in the literature about Wu Zhenren. In fact, in some literature, the word "夲" originally meant "本", but because of the shape of the writing style "夲", it led to the late learners forcibly pronouncing it as "tao" sound.
(5) Analysis and speculation of changing words due to avoidance
"Surname" is a gift from the clan, "name" is the parents Hui took, "word" Guan family Zhaomu, "number" can entertain themselves, "secret" is a coffin theory. This analysis and speculation is a compromise view, although there is no documentary evidence, but it is also in line with custom. However, the object of debate in this case is "name", and the name given by the parents at birth is not a self-absorbable "word" or "number". Wu Zhenren was born without a reason for avoidance, and there is no such custom of avoidance today, and the theory of changing words is another matter.
In addition, in the southern Fujian dialect, "stupid" means another word, not "夲". Most of the untouchable names are milk names and small names, and not "big names" are referred to here as "big names".
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How did "Ben" and "Ram" become a pair of joyful enemies? "Wu Ben" has been called for nearly a thousand years, and in the last 150 years, "Wu Meng" has emerged, and even has the meaning of making a noise. Below we look at the inextricable connection between the pronunciation and writing of the two words.
Commentary on the Commentaries on the Commentaries (Figure 26) :() Kinoshita YueBen. From wood from ten. ...... The end is in the form of righteousness. ...... Daya runs away with this music, pretending to borrow it. Cloth cut. There are 10 solutions to the noun "Ben", one of which is "the foundation or subject of things", such as "gentleman's business" and "back to the end".
"Commentary on the Interpretation of words" :() into the fun also. Fun, Sickness. From the big ten. Will be aware. ...... The disease of speech, such as the ability of ten people. All the subordinates of dreams are subordinate. Read ruotao. Clay knife cutting. "夲" is a polysyllabic character with two tones, one pronounced "tao1", which means "fast forward", such as "left looking right, Mode and Ramming"; the other pronounced "ben3", the ancient same as "ben".
In addition to the "夲" can be read "ben", the writing style of "Ben" is often written as the shape of "夲" of "Shangda Xiashi", such as Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Mi Fu of the Northern Song Dynasty, Yan Zhenqing of the Tang Dynasty, etc., and the near ones such as the contemporary Qi Gong and Chiang Kai-shek.
In a word: the two characters are similar, the word "Ben" can be written in the shape of "夲", but it cannot be pronounced as "tao" sound, and "夲" can be pronounced as "ben" sound, but it cannot be written in the shape of "Ben". If it is interpreted as "basic", it must be read "ben". After understanding the phonetic connection between "Ben" and "夲", it is not difficult for us to understand the reason why the thousand-year-old Baosheng Emperor's name "Wu Ben" was misread and written as "Wu Ben" in the 150 years from the middle and late Qing Dynasty to the present.
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In summary, the Minnan Cultural Research Association of Haicang District and the Qingjiao Tzu Chi Ancestral Palace believe that in view of the fact that the unity of the name is conducive to the unity of the faithful and the promotion of the Baosheng culture, in order to respect the authoritative records, respect for customs and traditions and naming rules, respect for folk customs and the recognition of believers, it is recommended that the official, academic circles, and folk (palace temple) unify their understanding, and the name of Baosheng The Great is "Ben".
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