According to the explanation in Shuo Wen Jie Zi, "sheep" is auspicious. ",symbolizing and expressing the head, horn, foot, tail and other shapes of sheep. Confucius once said: "The words of cattle and sheep also take shape as an example." In other words, words like cattle and sheep are summarized according to the appearance of animals, and all words related to sheep naturally use "sheep" as the radical.

Now most people in the world only know that sheep represent an animal. In fact, for a long time in history, the word "sheep" has been associated with "auspicious", which means good luck.

Second, the introduction of sheep:

Sheep is a kind of domestic animal that people are generally familiar with. There are two kinds of domestic sheep: goats and sheep. The two kinds of sheep have roughly the same body structure except for their different appearances. Domestic sheep are domesticated from wild sheep. Sheep domestication in southwest Asia is the earliest in the world. Moreover, goats and sheep were domesticated almost at the same time. In Jericho, Jordan, goats were domesticated as early as 8500 BC. Domestic goats and sheep have a long history, and wild sheep have been domesticated as domestic sheep. About four or five thousand years ago, in the late Longshan culture, for example, in the Qijia cultural site in Gansu province in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, a large number of bones of domestic animals such as pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep were found. By the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, raising sheep was very developed.

Third, the basic pronunciation and interpretation of sheep.