Beauty: hieroglyphics symbolize people wearing horns and horns. The ancients thought it was beautiful not because sheep were big and fat. For details, please refer to Interesting Notes on Ancient Chinese Characters. There is doubt here: horns and horns are big and sharp things, which are usually used as weapons or decorations and are rarely worn directly. Therefore, it is impossible to prove that wearing horns and horns is the beauty that the ancients thought. If it is a horn or horn in your hand, the radical of the word should be expressed by hand.
It is true that the word beauty is pictographic, but it is not a person wearing horns and horns, but a person holding a sheep's head or a cow's head high. The ancients always had the custom of offering sacrifices. It can be learned from the sacrifices of modern ethnic minorities that after preparing sacrifices, priests will choose hunters or women from tribes as sacrificial people, and the process of sacrifice is to kneel and offer sacrifices, and then priests will recite prayers and start offering dances and songs to praise the greatness of gods or ancestors.
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1. Chinese characters were invented by Cang Xie, an official in charge of the life of the Yellow Emperor, and were not spontaneously formed by the people. Word-makers always make words from the perspective of rulers. "Beauty" is the emperor's impression of the country and people. The emperor compared himself to a shepherd and the people to a flock of sheep. And "big" means "yellow, big" in Shuowen. Huang San, Dajun also. " The "big" mentioned in. During the Three Emperors period, China was a vast country with the so-called "Great Kyushu" (China was just one of the "Great Kyushu"). After the emperor ascended the throne, the territory of China was reduced to "Shenzhou", namely "Little Kyushu". Imperial Century: "There are Kyushu, Zhuzhou, Yingzhou and Shenzhou above Shennong. Since the Yellow Emperor, Germany has not been far away, but Kyushu is within China. " )。 It is precisely because people live on the land that the "sheep" representing the people is written on the "big" representing the territory. Ancient emperors like to compare governing the country to cooking, that is, the so-called "governing a big country is like cooking small fresh food." For example, Yi Yin, a Buddhist in Shang Tang, was originally a cook with the Xin family, but was persuaded by Shang Tang because of his negative attitude towards governing the country. Therefore, "beauty" has the extended meaning of "sweetness". The pronunciation of "beauty" is related to "big", because the territory is as big as the sea, so the word "every" in the word "sea" means "confusion" and becomes the pronunciation of the word "beauty": "sea, Tianchi also. Those who accept all rivers. From the water, every sound. " Song Benyu: "The sea calls for change. Daye is also affected by the inflow of hundreds of rivers and valleys. " There is a question here. The word Oracle Bone Inscriptions has always existed, symbolizing a person standing on a horizontal line and representing a person standing on the land. Similarly, the word "gentleman" has been misled. Shuowen was written by Xu Shen in the Han Dynasty and later expanded by later generations. At this time, the word "Jun" is no longer limited to describing people with noble status, but also refers to people with good moral character. By combing Huang San's deeds, a gentleman here should refer to a person who has made great contributions to the Terran, has boundless merits, good moral character and noble status. This identity is related to the emergence of the word "beauty". According to legend, Chiyou, the opponent of the Yellow Emperor, had a bull's head, so the creation of the word "beauty" may be the image of the Yellow Emperor holding his head high and boosting morale after cutting off Chiyou's head.
2. Some people think that "sheep are beautiful" and that the ancients used sheep as their main non-staple food, and fat sheep tasted delicious. There is a doubt today that the nation that invented the Chinese character "beauty" is a famous agricultural nation, and its main livestock is pigs. People in China started to raise pigs and eat pork about 8,500 years ago. Until today, pork is still the main meat consumer goods. Usually pork is used to eat meat buns, and beef and mutton only account for a small part. In the large-scale tombs in the late Neolithic period, the funerary objects that marked the social status of the tomb owner were also pigs. This kind of grave with pigs is called "tomb", and the word comes from scorpion. The Chinese word for "home" is also "there are pigs at home". Sheep appeared in China 4500 years ago, 4000 years later than pigs. Sheep are only kept in captivity in the Central Plains, or occasionally put in the fields to chew grass. The really suitable place for sheep to grow is the prairie. The ancients used sheep's meekness and herding characteristics to express some meanings by making words with sheep. However, this does not prove that China people regard mutton as delicious.
The ancients had the custom of offering sacrifices. Cattle, sheep and horses are big sacrifices to show respect for heaven and earth, but their skin, color and shape are all important norms and cannot be used as gifts. From this rigor, we can see that the three sacrifices chosen as sacrifices are noble and beautiful things in people's hearts. This beautiful word may describe a sacrificial priest dancing in a sheep's head mask or a bull's head mask. As can be seen from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, this beautiful word is like a sheephead dancing. Wearing a sheep's head mask or a cow's head mask is used to prove the dignity of a priest.
4. Similar to the word "sheep" representing the people in Beauty, there is also the word "group", which follows the sheep from the monarch, in which "jun" is the so-called "jun" of "Huang San is also a great monarch" in Shuowen, that is, the ruler; "Sheep" corresponds to "people"; "Jun" and "Yang" together represent "people under the leadership".