What is the difference between "home" and "family"?

Our country's culture is profound, especially Chinese characters, which many foreigners say are really difficult to understand. In fact, as China people, if we accidentally use Chinese characters in other places, we will also make jokes. Just like at a party before, a man asked my father how he was doing in order to please his boss. This makes the boss very helpless. As we all know, my father is my biological father. If you want to ask someone how their father is, use your father.

So you see, Chinese characters are so interesting that it's almost the Spring Festival. As a country that pays great attention to etiquette, we always go to relatives' homes to pay New Year greetings during the Spring Festival, so greetings are definitely indispensable. When we send greeting cards to others or edit greetings on mobile phones, we always write family happiness or family happiness at the back. But, is it family or family? This is very confusing. Sometimes it's embarrassing to write a wrong greeting. Just kidding adds another layer of meaning, so let's explain the difference between home and home and understand the mystery of Chinese characters.

He: It's an archaic character, which means door leaf in ancient times, that is to say, the two doors at home are closed doors. Moreover, in ancient times, farmers would choose to build houses at this time in spring. I think people who have lived in rural areas must know that the structures of houses built by people in southwest China are mostly elevated wooden structures with double doors, but in northern China they have become quadrangles.

With the development of society and urbanization, great changes have taken place in the structure of houses, and single doors have been used. Most of the doors in the city are rolling doors or row doors, but in ancient times, because there was a hall in the house, the door facing the hall could only be closed with double doors, so the ancients called it "door". Closing the door means that both doors are closed and no one will enter or leave the house, which means that everyone in the family is there. After a long time, people say that closing the door is a family, and closing the door has gradually evolved into all the meanings. Another meaning of friend is a verb, which means to close, so the family is the whole family.

So what does family mean? The word "he" also refers to all family members. It seems that there is no difference between the two, but in fact, the whole family refers to all the people in the family after the door is closed, and the whole family refers to all the population, which has nothing to do with whether the door is closed, so there is a big difference in essence. Therefore, in formal occasions, if you want to write letters or invitations, you will use the whole family, not the whole family.

Even in calligraphy works, family is the most common thing we see, but China people like to simplify it. In informal situations or when people talk casually, most people will use their families. Therefore, if you want to pay a New Year call to your elders, it is better to use your family, which is more solemn. But if they are close friends, the family will be very cordial, but it will be too grand, and the relationship between the two will be stiff.

So the Chinese character culture in China is so profound, so do you understand it now? Hehe hehe, you can't use it indiscriminately.