A deep hole where water can be taken from the ground. The wall of the hole is made of bricks and stones. Something shaped like a well. In ancient times, eight families were a well, which later referred to places or villages where people lived together. One of the 28 residences. Last name. The description is very neat.

Jing (pinyin: jǐng) is a commonly used Chinese character, which first appeared in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. The ancient glyph of a well is traditionally thought of as a railing around the well. The basic meaning of "well" refers to a deep hole dug down from the ground to get water. Later, the meaning of this word expanded to refer to anything shaped like a well, such as mines and oil wells.

In ancient times, cities were built by wells, so the place where people gathered was called the market. The word "well" in the pre-Qin period also refers to a land system-well field system. Because the "well site system" is divided into regular and orderly distribution, "well" has an orderly meaning, such as: orderly.

Some people think that the word "well" is the product of the "well-field system" in the slave society of Shang and Zhou Dynasties. In order to facilitate management, the slave owners divided a square mile of land into nine areas shaped like "wells". Each area covers an area of about 100 mu, and 8 families each occupy an area, which is responsible for farming and harvesting. Among them, that piece is public land, and the labor service is shared by eight families. In the middle of public fields, wells were dug for eight families to irrigate farmland for people and livestock to drink.

In the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty, there was a tendency to write characters in different ways, but in the end they all failed. There is only a little difference between complex and simple, but they arrived in the Eastern Han Dynasty.