Baidu interpretation:

1. A chemical element, symbol Au, atomic number 79, yellow-red, soft.

2. The general term for solids such as gold, which are shiny, malleable and easy to heat and conduct electricity (except mercury).

3. money.

4. refers to weapons or metal musical instruments.

5. One of the eight tones of ancient musical instruments in China.

6. It means noble, precious, rare, durable, solid and shiny. : ~ Lan (affectionate friendship).

7. Some animals and plants are named after their golden colors: ~ Golden Monkey.

8. Chinese dynasty name: ~ generation.

9. Last name.

Interpretation of Shuo Wen Jie Zi (Vernacular Edition);

Gold, the floorboard of five-color (red, blue, black, white and yellow) metals. Gold is the first hardware. Buried underground for a long time, it will not produce rust spots and corrosion traces, and will not lose weight after tempering, and it can adapt to deformation without betraying its nature. Among the five elements, gold represents the attributes of the West. Gold is born in the earth, and the font is bordered by "earth"; The left and right parts of "soil" are like sands hidden in the soil layer; The glyph is next to the word "today". All words related to gold are bounded by "gold".

Evolution of characters

I. Oracle Bone Inscriptions: At present, the word "gold" of Oracle Bone Inscriptions has not been found.

Second, Jin Wen

The word "Jin" in inscriptions on bronze inscriptions can be divided into herringbone covers and two characters, which are the word "Jin". The word "Jin" is both a phonetic edge and a shape edge, and is the original word of "Han", indicating inclusion.

The following can be divided into the word "ground" in ancient Chinese, that is, there is a vertical (non-intersecting connection) on a horizontal plane; All that's left is the point. There are two points and four points in the bronze inscription. "Soil" refers to land, geology and minerals, and points are mineral particles buried in the map, which vividly shows that precious minerals in particle form are all contained in sediments.

Some inscriptions write two points representing mineral particles as four points, highlighting the "particle" image of Jinsha. The inscription on the bronze ware shows that the ancients in the word-making era have begun to look for gold on the riverbed. This yellow mineral with high temperature resistance, corrosion resistance and the best ductility has finally become a universal monetary standard. Original meaning of word-making: a granular red and yellow precious mineral hidden in sediments and alluvium.

Third, biographies

After Qin unified the whole country, Xiao Zhuan was a character formed by sorting out and synthesizing the characters of various countries in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The proofreader is Reese. Xiao Zhuan follows the inscription, and the strokes are more regular and delicate. The formation of seal script laid the foundation of modern writing.

Four, bamboo slips and silk books

The neat writing speed of Xiao Zhuan is not fast, so a new writing method was born, and Xiao Zhuan changed to official script step by step. From the bamboo slips and silk books unearthed in Qin and Han Dynasties, we can see that the writing of silk books evolved from Biography. Although Xiao Zhuan is not an official script of Qin Dynasty, it is very popular and frequently used.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) official script

Lishu eventually became the official script of Han Dynasty. Li Shu is characterized by twists and turns and swallowtails, which is much easier to write than Xiao Zhuan. There are many ways to write official script, but they are all similar. Cao Quanbei's word "today" is closer to the ancient people's idea of word-making, and is written in the form of "today+earth". More writing methods are the same as those of Xiao Zhuan, but the brushwork is different.

Six, Wei Bei and regular script.

Wei Bei is a kind of regular script, so there is Wei Bei's theory of regular script in Tang Dynasty, which is collectively called official script. Wei Bei's brushwork continues the rigorous attitude of official script, and retains some official script brushwork, but it is closer to regular script. The development of calligraphy to regular script completely abandons the "twists and turns, swallowtail" of official script and pays attention to horizontal and vertical, but in fact, regular script is more flexible in the calligrapher's pen.

Seven, running script

Running script is a Lian Bi based on regular script, which is a faster writing method than regular script. The face of running script has not changed much, which is not as great as that of Xiao Zhuan script, bamboo slips, silk script or cursive script. This is a font between regular script and cursive script, but closer to regular script.

Eight, cursive script

Cursive script is a calligraphy font simplified from a large number of characters. Simplification is regular. Look for simplified rules from ancient Chinese characters and regular script, or some cursive writers make their own rules. The cursive writing of the word "gold" is easy to explain. It restores the meaning of ancient Chinese characters, separates the upper and lower parts with metal gravel (dots), and then forms a "golden" cursive script with Lian Bi's brushwork. Many ancient cursive scripts are difficult to identify, which is caused by the inconsistent simplification rules of writers. Since Wang Xizhi, all the simplification methods of cursive script are based on Wang Xizhi's cursive script, which is called modern grass.

abstract

China culture is a culture that attaches great importance to inheritance. Chinese characters have a history of more than two or three thousand years since they came into being. From the earliest recognizable Oracle Bone Inscriptions to the modern simplified Chinese characters, the change process can be traced back to: Chinese characters gradually changed from graphics to strokes, from pictographs to symbols, and from complexity to simplification; In the principle of word formation, from ideographic, ideographic to phonological. Chinese characters are linguistic signs, and a Chinese character usually represents a word or a morpheme in Chinese, which forms the characteristics of unity of sound, form and meaning. Chinese characters are square characters composed of strokes, so they are also called square characters.