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Why is the crown on the head of a foreign king similar to the word "mountain" Is there a connection between the two?
The crown is of great significance in both China and foreign history, because it symbolizes a country's leading position and supreme rights. The word "crown" means hat in ancient Chinese, but if it is to be a symbol of rights, it is not just an article to wear, so the design and selection of crown will not be based on practicality. The only and most important function of the crown is to show. The crown we usually see in film and television dramas is the shape of a mountain, which means there must be a tip on the crown, which is the highest and the middle anyway. Almost all dental crowns, no matter what slight differences in detail design, must have a highest sharp angle above the center of the wearer's forehead. However, this does not necessarily mean that the thinking of the designer of the crown must be related to the mountain of Chinese characters. Because the crown is a foreign object and is worn by western kings. Although the emperor of China also had his own crown, the design was different from that of the western crown. Emperor China's crown, taking the Qing Dynasty as an example, has a very gorgeous tip on the top of his head, unlike the western crown, which is just a ring on his head.

Then we can be sure that western crown designers have no chance to see and refer to China's Chinese characters. Therefore, the similarity between the crown design and the Chinese character mountain is purely coincidental, but this coincidence may also have some similarities. Because Chinese characters in China are derived from hieroglyphics, the pictographic component of the word mountain is relatively large. When the word was first coined, it described the morphological characteristics of mountain peaks, and it still maintains such characteristics until now.

When designing a crown, western designers will also think about how to design to highlight the supreme right as a king, so the image of the mountain appears. The highest peak of the mountain overlooks everything below, which is very majestic and just in line with the status of the king.