Hua is our common word, but also a very important word in our culture, such as "Huaxia", "Chinese", "Chinese nation" and so on.
The Chinese character has three pronunciations, huā, huá, and huà. Its original meaning refers to flowers, so reading huā, used as a verb to mean flowering; flowers are beautiful and moving, so it is extended to the meaning of brilliance and gorgeous; thus extended to the essence of things, and extended to the literary style, used as a noun, read huá; when used for surnames, read the fourth huà, "Huashan" is also read the fourth sound.
seal script
The word "Hua" was first written without a cursive character, and the shape of the whole word was like a flower, the upper part was like an unfolding petal, the middle two horizontals resembled the calyx and the flower holder, and the lower part was an extended rhizome. In the early days, "flower" and "hua" were the same word, so the original meaning of "hua" is flower, which can be extended to beauty.
Kong Yingda's "Spring and Autumn Left Transmission of Justice": "China has the greatness of etiquette, so it is called Xia; there is the beauty of the clothing chapter, which is called Hua."
Letter of Submission
The "Hua" with a cursive character was created on the basis of this original "flower" around the Warring States period. Therefore, in the book of affiliation, there is also the cursive word "Hua". The interpretation of Hua in the Shuowen Jiezi also becomes "from Gong Cong".
Later generations' interpretation of Hua also became "Rongye" with the "Shuowen". Because "Hua" is from the grass, the lush color of the grass is prosperity.
regular script
The glyphs in the letter are still a continuation of the form of the Lishu, but there are some differences in the writing style of the strokes.
Writing, cursive
When it comes to cursive writing, it is all done for the convenience of writing and the treatment of continuous strokes or omitting strokes, but its general appearance is still recognizable. Although cursive writing and line writing sometimes make some reductions on glyph strokes because of the pursuit of convenience in writing, when returning to normal writing, when writing the main text and official documents, they will still return to their original appearance, and some strokes should still be there.
Simplified
The modern simplified word "Hua" is actually already a recombined shape and sound character, with the upper part of the "Hua" as the sound side, and the lower part "ten" as the simplified sign. This simplified sign of "ten" is still more in line with a memory point of the original "Hua" character.
The traditional character "Hua" morphological structure is a symmetrical structure, very aesthetic, and its glyphs are also easily associated with a prosperous and lush appearance. The simplified character "Hua", although it is simple, but whether it is structural beauty or glyph interpretation, it is inferior to the traditional "Hua", no wonder some netizens said "simplified words are very necessary, but the most should not be simplified is the Chinese characters" such a voice.
Although the simplified "Hua" is not as good as the traditional "Hua", it has so many advantages, but it has few strokes and is convenient, which is one of the biggest advantages, which is also a need at that time. As for now, it is also accustomed to looking at it, but for those who learn calligraphy and read calligraphy, it is a little troublesome to identify the cursive font.
What do you think of the comparison between "Hua" and "Hua"? Perhaps there is a word that should not be simplified than "hua"?