Chapter 23 The first section extends to philology
Many Chinese square characters are inspired by dietary practice. In oracle bone inscriptions, there are many pictographs, pictographs, and pictophonetic characters that directly describe food objects, food organs, food media, food utensils, cooking utensils, or express various food images. , especially pictographic characters.Dietary objects such as "
ideograms, such as "
Expressed in pictophonetic characters, such as "
"(Qi),"
"(杧, that is, awn), "
"(cypress)"
"(chicken) and so on.
Most pictographic characters are simple and direct descriptions of a single body, or only describe the main features of an object; pictographs use two or more pictographs to express meaning; pictophonetic characters are a combination of pictographs and phonetic symbols.There are many words created from dietary practice, the above quotations are just some examples.
It is worth noting that the word "Gu" (beautiful), oracle bone inscriptions are from sheep to fire, which is the imagery of lambs roasted by fire. In his "Shuowen Jiezi", it is said that "sheep are big and beautiful", which is taken for granted. Since then, this attachment has been maintained for more than 2,000 years. Tracing from the etymology, we can know that taste bud aesthetics is the originator of Chinese aesthetics.
"(Qi)," "(杧, that is, awn), " "(cypress)" "(chicken) and so on.
Most pictographic characters are simple and direct descriptions of a single body, or only describe the main features of an object; pictographs use two or more pictographs to express meaning; pictophonetic characters are a combination of pictographs and phonetic symbols.There are many words created from dietary practice, the above quotations are just some examples.
It is worth noting that the word "Gu" (beautiful), oracle bone inscriptions are from sheep to fire, which is the imagery of lambs roasted by fire. In his "Shuowen Jiezi", it is said that "sheep are big and beautiful", which is taken for granted. Since then, this attachment has been maintained for more than 2,000 years. Tracing from the etymology, we can know that taste bud aesthetics is the originator of Chinese aesthetics.