Tian Zi's early works began to appear in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty, with hieroglyphics. Its ancient glyph is like a farmland, buildings or ditches criss-crossing.
Bronze inscriptions are simplified and unified into the shape of four fields; There are different forms of complexity and simplicity in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, but later generations mainly inherited simplified fonts, which continued from the inscription "Tian". Up to now, it still maintains criss-crossing farmland hieroglyphics, only the changes of strokes in past dynasties, and the font structure has remained basically unchanged for thousands of years.
Meaning:
Tian, pictograph. The glyph is like drawing criss-crossing squares on a large area of ridges and acres, representing countless mineral fields (vertical lines represent vertical ridges) and strange fields (horizontal lines represent horizontal ridges), and some Oracle Bone Inscriptions are like deformed acres. The simplified word Oracle Bone Inscriptions simplifies many criss-crossing buildings into a horizontal and vertical "ten", namely "field".
The original meaning of its word is criss-crossing farmland, which was later extended to a verb, referring to farming and farming, and later written as "tenancy" There are also fiefs given by ancient rulers to relatives and servants and ancient plot units.
Extension refers to production activity units and ore-bearing zones. Ancient books sometimes use "field" instead of "field" to refer to hunting. This is like a hunting war and the shape of a minefield. The original meaning of "field" refers to the land where crops are planted, and later it is extended to something related to agriculture.
Tian is also the radical of Chinese characters, and the characters from Tian are mostly related to hunting and farming, such as Qi, Qi, Jie, Dian and Ding.
Examples of Tian Zi's escape into "five grains", "five grains" and "food" are in the following Chinese characters: "stomach" and "fruit".
In ancient times, the words "Tian", "Chen" and "Zhen" were interchangeable, because the original meaning of "Tian" was "square clod", which looked like an army phalanx, and the grain planted on it was arranged neatly, like soldiers lined up. The word "Chen" comes from the East. "Fu" refers to the mound. "East" refers to "five grains" and "five grains".
Chen's original intention is "the square land for growing grains". Therefore, "Chen" and "Tian" are interlinked. Because ancient military formations were generally square. If the formation of the army is compared to a square field and the soldiers in the formation are compared to whole grains, then "Chen" and "array" are interlinked.
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Oracle Bone Inscriptions is a written form in the Shang Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty in ancient China, mainly carved on tortoise shells and animal bones. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is an important milestone in the development of China characters, and it also records rich historical and cultural information. Oracle Bone Inscriptions's research is of great significance for understanding ancient society and culture.
Tian Zi and Oracle Bone Inscriptions are one of the most common and important characters in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which are mainly used to represent fields, land, agriculture and related contents. The shape of Tian Zi also became the basic structural element of Chinese characters, which appeared in many Chinese characters.
The evolution of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Tian Zi is closely related to the development of ancient characters in China. The evolution from hieroglyphics to ideographic symbols is an important milestone in the development of Chinese characters, which marks the gradual development of characters from simple realistic forms to abstract and symbolic directions. This evolution process reflects the ancients' cognition of characters and the continuous improvement of writing skills.