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What does Qing mean?
Qing refers to the following:

Ancient percussion instruments. Made of stone or jade, shaped like a ruler, hung on a frame and played with a mallet. A single one is called special parallelism, and a complete set is called parallelism. The almsgiving-like sounder struck in the temple when worshipping Buddha is made of copper.

The ancient word "Bian" written by "Qing" was first seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. The triangle at the top left of Oracle Bone Inscriptions is an ancient chime, and the "chime" shape at the top is a shelf for hanging chimes; On the lower right is a hand hitting his chin with a small hammer. The ancient Chinese characters in Shuowen basically kept their original intention except for a slight change in stone composition.

In the stage of Xiao Zhuan, the word "stone" was added to the original word "Liu", indicating that Qing was made of stone and became a pictophonetic character. In the late Spring and Autumn Period, characters parallel to the sound of "Saint" appeared. The ancient prose "Qi" in Shuowen is also a later pictophonetic character, from stone to sound (jοng). Later, "Zhai" became another word, pronounced kēng, indicating the sound of throwing stones, and the original intention disappeared.

Han Li inherited the shape of Xiao Zhuan, but it changed slightly, mainly because the original stone component was different from a vertical pen, two vertical pens or a horizontal pen.

Le stone page From the raft. Like the shape of a county. Dead, fight. The ancient mother used a famous sentence to compare happiness. Shu, people. Zhai, an ancient writer in China. Translation of qi: stone tools that can play percussion, and the glyph is understood by "stone" and "Qìng". (Voice) Like hanging your chin.