What does the Reform Movement of 1898 mean? What does elegance mean?

What does 1898 refer to? Many Chinese characters with similar shapes really dazzle us and bring us the distress of discrimination. If we are not careful, we may make mistakes in writing and reading. The words "Yue", "E", "Xu", "Shu" and "Rong" look like quintuplets. There are not any left in this shirt! Especially "Garrison" and "Xu", one is a little bit inside, and the other is short and horizontal, so it's not surprising to mispronounce it. For example, the "Reform Movement of 1898" wrote "Reform Movement of 1898" and the "Garrison" wrote "Garrison", which made a joke.

Let's take a look at the pronunciations of these words first: yuè, Wu ù, с, Shu ù, rongró n ɡ. The pronunciation differences are clear at a glance, so we don't need to elaborate.

So, now let's look at their respective meanings:

Yueti, originally an axe, is an ancient weapon.

Wuwei is the fifth in the sky, after A, B, C and D. When it comes to "E", there is another episode. At first, the word was not pronounced W u, but Mao, and Guang Yun meant "Don't cut after". Later, in the first year of Liang in the Five Dynasties, Mao Lin, the great-grandfather of Liang Taizu and Zhu Wen, changed reading to "W u" in order to avoid taboo.

Xū is eleven earthly branches, and twelve branches are Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai; It means 7: 00 to 9: 00 p.m.

Defend shu, which means to guard. Common words are guarding the border and defending.

Rong Ró n π, which is obvious from the other four words, is also a commonly used one, meaning soldier, with words such as joining the army and military uniform.

In fact, the five characters were obviously different in shape at first, but they just evolved into regular script and appeared similar. Let's take a look at the original glyphs of these characters and their development tracks:

The Oracle Bone Inscriptions glyph in Shuowen is:

Oracle Bone Inscriptions-shaped "Yue"

The letter form of "Yue"

Oracle Bone Inscriptions's bronze inscriptions in Yue are all half-moon-axe-shaped. Compared with Ge Youming, the shape of Xiao Zhuan is obviously changed, and gold characters are added to Li Shu. Therefore, from the ancient glyph, we can know that "Yue" is originally a big axe, an ancient weapon, and some people think it is the original word of "Yue". The evolution track of the word "Yue" is as follows:

The Evolution Track of "Yue"

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is engraved with the word "e":

Oracle Bone Inscriptions "E" shape

"e" letter

The golden character of "E" is similar to "Yue", like an axe. Some people think that "e" is a kind of spear. Mr. Guo Moruo thinks that "e is like an axe"; Mr. Li Xiaoding also holds a similar view: "Wu is like a weapon, and its shape is similar." (Quoted from Oracle Bone Inscriptions's Collection and Interpretation, p. 256). The development track of the word "e" is as follows:

The development track of the word "e"

As a heavenly stem, the word "e" is homophonic and has nothing to do with the original meaning of "e"

The word "garrison" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions has the following inscription:

The word "garrison" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions

The word "garrison" in bronze inscriptions

The word "garrison" in the bronze inscriptions in Oracle Bone Inscriptions is a cognitive word, with the word "man" on the lower left, and "ge" on the man, who backs his ge, which means guarding the border, that is, defending. So "keeping" means keeping and keeping. Du Fu's "Military Vehicle Shop" said: "When they set out, the mayor wrapped a headscarf for them. Now the headscarf is white and they are still at the border." When I went to war, Li covered him with a headscarf, but now his hair is gray before he comes back, but he has to guard the border.

The development track of the word "garrison" is as follows:

The development track of the word "garrison"

Now the ellipsis at the lower left of the word "Shu" evolved from the word "Ren", and the original word is completely invisible. It can be said that the simplification of this word is not very successful.

The simplified glyphs of "Xu" and "Shu" are the most similar, that is, the difference between one point and one short horizontal. In fact, the ancient glyphs are also very close, and they belong to the same kind of weapons. Its Oracle Bone Inscriptions inscription is as follows:

"Hey" Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

"Xu" bronze inscription

Look from the glyph, although "Xu" also looks like an axe, it is a weapon with a wide axe mouth, and its size and width are different from that of "E". "Xu" is an outer bow meniscus, and "E" is an inner bow meniscus. The development track of the word "Xu" is as follows:

The development track of the word "Xu"

It can be seen from the glyph that the short horizontal character "Xu" evolved from the lower edge of the weapon "Xu", while the point of "Shu" evolved from the word "Ren". Later, the original meaning of "Xu" gradually disappeared because it was the eleventh main branch.

The word "Rong", from 0 to 10, is a knowing word, and 10 is the word "A" in ancient Chinese, so the seal script was changed from 10 to A. Oracle Bone Inscriptions's inscription is as follows:

Oracle Bone Inscriptions's word "Rong"

Inscription of "Rong"

The ancient Chinese character "Rong" in China is quite different from "Yue" and "Xu", but similar to "Shu". The difference is that one is subordinate to people and the other is subordinate to A. The development track of the word "Rong" is as follows:

The development track of the word "Rong"

From the development track, "Rong" has changed correspondingly with the change of the ancient Chinese character "A". "a" is a tool; "Ge" is a weapon; The word "Rong" means "Rong". In modern Chinese, "Rong" means military affairs and military affairs. Common words include Rong, Rong Zhuang, Busy and Career.

To make it easier to understand, let's compare and summarize the Oracle Bone Inscriptions glyphs of the five Chinese characters "Yue", "E", "Shu" and "Rong". The differences in glyphs are as follows:

Comparison of the shapes of Yue, Hubei, Shu, Xu and Rong.

Summary: Yue is a big axe weapon with a long handle and a round blade, and it is also the original word of Yue. E, axe-shaped weapon, similar to cymbals, but different in shape, cymbals are external arches, E is crescent-shaped internal arches, and later named "E" under the guise of heavenly stems; Guard is the shape of a person, which means to defend and guard the border; Xu, like an axe weapon, is very similar to Yue, but the width is different. It can be seen that the ancients carefully classified weapons, and later named them the eleventh "Xu" of the earthly branch. Rong, dressed in armor, holds the shape of a brother, which means military merit.

The similarities of the five words are all from Ge, but the difference is that the words Yue, E and Xu were originally used as weapons of defense and conquest, meaning that people were engaged in activities with Ge or armour.

Finally, let's share a simple and easy-to-remember formula: when you ask Yu, it can also be recorded as: Shou (shü) and Ju (shü).

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