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Create after seeing a chicken

Once upon a time there was a landowner who loved to eat chicken. The tenants rented his land and had to pay the rent alone. They had to give him a chicken first. .

There was a tenant named Zhang San. At the end of the year, he went to pay rent to the landlord and share the land for the second year. When he went, he put a chicken in a bag. After paying the rent, he went to the landlord. When the landlord talked about the land he was assigned the next year, when he saw that his hands were empty, he said with his eyes raised to the sky: "This land is not open to Zhang San." Zhang San understood the meaning of this sentence and immediately took the chicken from the bag. Come out.

When the landlord saw the chicken, he immediately changed his mind and said: "If you don't give it to Zhang San, give it to someone else."

Zhang San said: "Your words become so fast!"

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The landlord replied: "That sentence just now was 'nonsense', but now this sentence was made based on the opportunity."

Here are your ears

The newly appointed county magistrate is from Shandong. Because he wanted to have a job, he said to the master: "Go and buy me two bamboo poles."

The master called "bamboo pole" in Shandong accent Hearing it as "pork liver", he quickly agreed and hurried to the butcher shop and said to the shopkeeper: "The new county magistrate wants to buy two pig livers. You are a sensible person."

In my heart You should know it!"

The shopkeeper was a smart man and understood immediately. He immediately cut off two pig livers and gave a pair of pig ears as a gift.

After leaving the butcher shop , the master thought to himself: "What the master asked me to buy is pork liver, of course these pig ears are mine..." So he wrapped the hunting ears and stuffed them into his pocket. He returned to the county office and reported to the magistrate: " Report back to the Master, we bought pork liver!"

The county magistrate saw that the master bought pork liver, and said angrily: "Where are your ears!" When the master heard this, his face turned pale with fright, and he hurriedly replied : "Ears... ears... here... in me... in my pocket!"

There is an "opportunity" to take advantage of

A salesman went on a business trip to Guangzhou After arriving in Beijing, because I wanted to take a flight and was afraid that the manager would not agree to the reimbursement, I sent a telegram to the manager: "You can take it, do you want to take it?" After receiving the telegram, the manager thought that the "opportunity" to close the deal had arrived. He immediately called back: "Take it if you can."

When the salesman came back from a business trip to reimburse the travel expenses, the manager did not agree to reimburse the air tickets because he was not qualified enough and would not be reimbursed for flying. Salesman The clerk took out the manager to call back, but the manager was dumbfounded.

It’s related to the place name

On New Year’s Day night, my younger brother took two overseas Chinese students home for dinner, one was cheerful and the other was more reserved.

It’s related to the place name.

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During the dinner, the cheerful classmate smiled and pointed at the reserved classmate and introduced us: "He is from Myanmar, so he is quite shy." Then he raised his glass to toast everyone, raised his head and drank. After that, he continued: "I am from Yangon."

The principal was angry

At the school affairs meeting at the end of the semester, the principal was furious about the low efficiency of personnel administration. He said: "The person who is responsible for the director's business is not sensible; the person who is responsible for personnel management is unconscious; the person who is an officer is not an officer!"

A meeting in a village

A meeting in a village, because of the homophonic pronunciation , the village chief said: "Rabbits and shrimps, please don't ask for pickles, pickles are too expensive." (Comrades and villagers, don't talk, the meeting is now.) The host said: "Pickles, please pickles and pickles." (Now I invite the township chief to speak.) The township chief said: "Rabbits and shrimps, the dogs have eaten today's rice, and everyone is a big bastard." (Comrades, villagers, today's meal is enough, everyone has eaten. Use a large bowl)

The Origin of Chinese Characters

From the ancient legend of Cangjie’s creation of characters to the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions more than 100 years ago, Chinese scholars of all ages have been committed to uncovering the mystery of the origin of Chinese characters.

As for the origin of Chinese characters, there are various theories in ancient Chinese documents, such as "knot ropes", "gossip", "pictures", "book deeds", etc. Ancient books also generally record that the Yellow Emperor historian Cangjie made word legend. Modern scholars believe that a systematic writing tool cannot be completely created by one person. If Cangjie does exist, he should be the organizer or promulgator of writing.

The earliest carved symbols are more than 8,000 years ago

In recent decades, the Chinese archaeological community has released a series of unearthed materials that are earlier than the Yin Ruins oracle bone inscriptions and related to the origin of Chinese characters. These materials mainly refer to the engraved or painted symbols that appeared on pottery in the late primitive society and early historical society. They also include a small amount of symbols engraved on oracle bones, jades, stone tools, etc. It can be said that they all provide new basis for explaining the origin of Chinese characters.

By systematically examining and comparing the engraved symbols on pottery shards unearthed from more than 100 sites of 19 archaeological cultures across China, Wang Yunzhi, a doctoral supervisor at Zhengzhou University, believes that the earliest engraved symbols in China are Appeared at the Jiahu site in Wuyang, Henan, it has a history of more than 8,000 years.

As a professional worker, he tried to further analyze these original materials through scientific means, such as the comprehensive use of some basic methods such as archeology, ancient writing morphology, comparative philology, technological archeology, and high-tech means. After a comprehensive sorting, some clues about the occurrence and development of Chinese characters before the writing of the Shang Dynasty were revealed.

However, the situation is not that simple. In addition to the existing small materials from the Zhengzhou Shangcheng site and the Xiaoshuangqiao site (more than 10 examples of early Shang Dynasty Zhu Shu and pottery inscriptions have been discovered at this site in recent years), they can be directly compared with the Yin Ruins inscriptions. Compared with the sequence, other symbols from before the Shang Dynasty are scattered and scattered, with many missing links from each other, and most of the symbols are inconsistent with the characters of the Shang Dynasty. There are also some symbols with strong regional colors and complex backgrounds.

The Chinese character system was formally formed in the Central Plains region

Wang Yunzhi believes that the formal formation of the Chinese character system should be in the Central Plains region. Chinese characters are a writing system with independent origin. It does not depend on any foreign characters for its existence. However, its origin is not single. It has gone through multiple and long-term development. About the time of entering the Xia Dynasty, the ancestors began to write Chinese characters. Based on the extensive experience of absorbing and using early symbols, he creatively invented a text symbol system for recording language. At that time, the Chinese character system matured relatively quickly.

It is reported that judging from the written materials unearthed from archaeological excavations, China already had formal writing at least during the Yu and Xia Dynasties. For example, in recent years, archaeologists have discovered the word "文" written in calligraphy on a flat pottery pot from the Tao Temple site in Xiangfen, Shanxi. These symbols all belong to the basic configuration of early writing systems. Unfortunately, such unearthed writing information is still scarce.

Writing first matured in the Shang Dynasty

As far as the Yin and Shang written materials currently known and seen, there are many categories of writing carriers. In addition to writing on slips with brushes, the other main means of writing at that time were inscriptions on tortoise shells and animal bones, pottery, jade, and pottery casting on bronzes. The written materials of the Shang Dynasty are mainly based on the oracle bones and bronze ritual vessels used for divination in the Yin Ruins. It is the earliest mature writing discovered in China so far.

The characters of the Shang Dynasty reflected in the Yinxu period are not only reflected in the large number of characters and rich materials, but also in the way of character creation that has formed its own characteristics and rules. The structural characteristics of the basic characters of the Shang Dynasty can be divided into four categories: taking the physical characteristics of the human body and a certain part of the human body as the basis for character construction; taking the creations and objects of labor as the basis for character construction; taking the images of animals and livestock as the basis for character construction; take natural objects as the basis for character construction. From the perspective of the cultural connotation of the configuration, we can see that the objects chosen by these earlier and mature glyphs are quite close to the social life of our ancestors and have strong realistic characteristics. At the same time, the content described by these glyphs involves all aspects of human and nature, so it also has the characteristics of a wide range of sources of configuration.