Chapter 26 Section 2 From seedlings to China

It is also an ancient tradition in Chinese society to build a country on agriculture.The word "year" as an important unit for calculating time, written in ancient characters There are still many Chinese characters composed of the word "he" representing crops as a basic component.For example "Bing( Furthermore, most of the new characters composed of "jian" and pictograph radicals still retain this meaning. 〔jian双〕' is a bird that flies on two wings, and '鳒〔jian双〕' is a flounder.The emergence of these characters is also closely related to China's emphasis on textiles, fishing and hunting as an agricultural country.

By the way, among the three pictophonetic characters "缣, 鹣, 鳒" derived from the basic meaning of "Jian", "Jian" also acts as a phonetic symbol.Therefore, some of the phonetic symbols in the pictophonetic characters of Chinese characters also have certain meanings, which are indispensable for those who want to understand Chinese characters. There is also a very important "Qin" character, which can only be seen from the "He" preserved in its lower part to be related to agriculture.The ancient script writing base of this character.It is precisely because Qin State has sufficient food and national strength that Qin Shihuang finally unified China and established the Qin Dynasty.Until the Han Dynasty, countries in the Western Regions also called the whole of China "Qin".Countries around the world now call China China, and the etymology of this name is the word "Qin".Therefore, it has a long history for China to stand among the nations of the world as an ancient agricultural country.