Unit 3, Book 2, Grade 5 Composition: Interesting Language

Language and writing are really interesting.

Language and writing have a long history, and I think it is so colorful, so vivid and interesting.

The characters are very interesting. Many characters can know their meaning as soon as they see their glyphs. For example, the word "blade" means "knife edge" at first sight. "Hugh" means that people have a rest under the tree. "Prison" means that a person is imprisoned in a house. According to the teacher, there are still many words that have evolved from stick figures, such as "mountain", "water" and "eye". The Chinese characters of the motherland are really interesting!

That's very interesting. People who don't know them are easily taken in by them. In class, the teacher told us a joke: a foreign teacher explained the word "thing" to the students in a Chinese class. He plausibly said: "In China, the word' thing' refers to the direction, and sometimes to various objects, but it must not refer to people. For example, I'm not.

Chinese sentences are also very interesting. Sometimes, the same sentence, just changing the position of the word, has a completely different meaning. There is a story that there was a general in the Qing Dynasty who was defeated in many wars. He was at a loss to report to the emperor: write truthfully, lest the emperor blame himself for incompetence; If you don't write truthfully, you are afraid of committing the crime of deceiving the monarch. At this time, his military adviser suggested that he change "repeated defeats" into "repeated defeats". Sure enough, the emperor didn't blame him after reading the book, but thought he was brave in fighting.

Due to the variety of language, interesting palindromes such as "fighting cocks on the mountain, hiding dragons in Long Yin cave" and humorous allegorical sayings such as "Bald men holding umbrellas-lawlessness" have been formed.

The language is rich and colorful, and I am determined to learn it well!