The "noble and lowly" of life, the "win and lose" of the cause, the "gain and loss" of interests, the "praise and depreciation" of honor, Hanyu "Bei" are all involved in the construction, and "Bei" is also immersed in "value", "wealth", "obligation" and "criterion", constituting the weight of life, leading the joy and sorrow of emotion, giving the illusion and hope of the flesh, and is the beacon and totem of the psychological process of the pursuit of happiness.
So, what is Bay? What does Baye represent? What cultural connotations have Bey given? Chinese characters, the center of the Chinese nation's gathering culture and wisdom for five thousand years, what kind of physical information is transmitted through the "bei"? What kind of spiritual energy is released?
1. Shells are shells
Shellfish first refers to the hard shell of shellfish, which is a general term for mesenchymal mollusks. Shellfish are the petal gills or bivalves of the mollusk phylum , with 1 to 2 shells on the outside of the body. There are more than 10,000 species in existence, of which 80% live in the ocean, and the common ones are oysters, mussels, clams, clams, nautilus and so on.
In addition to economic and other applicable values, shells mean the source and hope of life, and are given a large number of physical meanings: shells are regarded as feminine, because of their resemblance to female vulva, so they also represent the womb and childbirth; shellfish creatures are often associated with inventions, and many mythical gods grow from shells; in Christianity, shellfish creatures are always associated with baptism ceremonies, and shells are sprinklers at baptism ceremonies. At the same time, as a Chinese character representing currency, value, honor, etc., Bei has played an important role in the long history of Chinese culture and has been given rich meaning and significance.
2. Shells are money
Shells are money, they are currency. Money is a contract on the right to communicate.
The contract essence of money determines that money can be expressed in different ways, such as ordinary equivalents, precious metal currencies, paper money, electronic money, etc. It can be used as a medium of sale, storage value and unit of account.
In the history of Chinese currency, the earliest used as a payment wrist is some natural objects, and the sea shell is one of them, and the sea shell has obtained the position of physical currency in the late Neolithic period in China, which is about four or five thousand years ago.
In the middle and late Period of the Yin Shang Period, there were original metal coins, bronze imitation shell coins. Shellfish are regarded as extremely valuable objects, in addition to their beautiful and shiny surface, the main reason is that it is far away from the sea Chinese mainland is not easy to find. It was often used by the nobility as an ornament. The great slave owners of the Shang Dynasty took the shell as an important reward, so the shell represented honor, fame and fortune, etc., and the Shang and Zhou nobles often made bronze ware for receiving the shell as a souvenir.
With the presentation of the original trade, consolidated by dry shells abrasion resistance, easy to carry, counting bento, people are happy to bear. Among all the physical currencies, shell coins have the longest circulation time and the widest circulation.
3. Bey is a treasure
The shell is the treasure, the symbol of the precious thing, the meaning of the word treasure refers to the precious thing; the seal of the emperor, borrowing refers to the throne; metal currency, etc.
Shell is a treasure, first of all, the shell is a treasure.
In ancient times, living materials were scarce, aesthetic understanding sprouted, in the inland of the Central Plains far from the sea, shellfish is a rare commodity, representing wealth, honor and value, can be used to decorate, treasure to decorate life, show identity and location. Bei is also a mysterious symbol and utensil of primitive religious beliefs, a talisman of auspicious peace, secondly, bei is the center of the Chinese character "baby", the traditional "寳" glyph of "bao" changes greatly, but "bei" is always inseparable from it, and bei is the focus of "baby".
Finally, bei, as the head and component of the Chinese characters, is hidden among more than four hundred Chinese characters, which have greatly constructed our faith ideals and values, carried the wisdom of life and the energy of warm hearts in Chinese culture for 5,000 years, and are the treasures of physical strength.
4. Shells are symbols

The Maya used a point, a horizontal, and a shell-shaped symbol representing zero to represent numbers
Shell is a symbol, representing money, currency, etc., just like our common "¥, $, £, €" is the symbol of "money, US dollar, pound sterling, euro".
Whether in airports, highways, companies, cities or countries, we can see symbols of our behavior everywhere: the graphics of airplanes facing up indicate take-off, downwards indicate landing; the graphics of a man and a woman often represent toilets and so on. Symbols are also used to denote brands, businesses, groups or to represent their ideals and confidences.
As a symbol, "bei" represents shells, money, goods, meaning value, wealth, etc., especially with other partial heads of Chinese characters to interpret the physical confidence of interests, honors, etc., providing a strong positive energy for our healthy physical life and guiding the direction of bright and warm.
5. Shell is the word
Bei is a Chinese character and a partial head, representing currency, value, honor, etc.
Bei is not only an independent Chinese character, itself has a complete image and clear information and meaning, Bei is also a partial head and component of Chinese characters, which together with other components form more than 400 different Chinese characters. These Chinese characters, whether in their composition or in the content they contain, touch on important aspects of our social life, such as: "earn and lose" in terms of wealth; "praise and depreciation" in honor; "noble and low" in terms of value; and so on.
In participating in the composition of these Chinese characters, Bei dedicates and releases his own information and ideas, and at the same time, through the information given by other partial radicals to form Chinese characters, he has enriched his own connotation, providing a colorful and reciprocal platform carrier for human general thought and physical life, and providing a direction for us to understand the world together, judge the world, and constitute the psychology and attitude facing the world.
6. Betton Ding
Ding is the "heavy weapon of the country", and the shell word has the blood of Ding.
Here we say that Beitongding mainly indicates that the bei characters in some modern Chinese characters were originally Ding characters. The oracle bones and the gold script "bei" and "ding" are written in a similar shape, and more importantly, the physical information represented by their respective meaning concepts also have similarities in the position of ancient people's lives, so that some of the characters from ding directly become shells. Such as: virginity, then, defeat, member, etc.
In the era when oracle bones and gold texts were prevalent, Ding was the "heavy instrument of the country", representing the kingdom, rights, position, meaning honor, majesty, etc., and was the highest tool and way of ceremony in the Bronze Age. The character is full of lofty ideals, confidence and physical needs, and is a concentrated presentation of value.
Due to the fusion of the Chinese character Ding and the shell form, it is not difficult to associate and understand that the shell as an information symbol is physically integrated into the nobility that Ding means.
7. Shell is the core of value
The shell is the center and symbol of value. The concept of value stems from the rise of the philosophy of value. The philosophy of value is a philosophy based on and centered on a most common conception of value.
Value belongs to the category of relations, epistemologically speaking, refers to the benefit relationship between the object can meet the needs of the subject, and is a philosophical category that represents the effect, benefit or effect relationship between the attributes and functions of the object and the needs of the subject. In economics, value is an attribute of a commodity, referring to the quantitative value of a commodity on its ordinary equivalent.
The fundamental interpretation of value in Chinese characters is precious, important, and positive, it is an attribute of commodities, and bei is the symbol and meaning of these concepts in Chinese characters.
The traditional characters of "price" are composed of "people" and "Jia", which we interpret as: Bei represents interests, honors, and meanings, and is the center of "value", and Jia is the operation of the content represented by Bei, which means the relationship between the operation and shaping of interests, honors, and meanings between people. "Value" is composed of "people" and "straight", and is extended to be people-oriented, fair and reasonable, direct and transparent, and judges and evaluates the meaning and interest essence of things.
The simplified "price" is composed of "person" and "introduction", indicating that "price" is a media mechanism for weighing and judging between people's relationships and positions. The composition of the word "value" is the guidance of this system: people-oriented, just and fair judgment, evaluation, operation to shape the value, interests and meaning of things, constitute the value system of my own conscience, and become the value ontology and concept orientation of Chinese culture's mindfulness and kindness.