The evolution of writing?

The world is evolving, humans are evolving, and human language and writing are also evolving. Moreover, the evolution of language and writing also reflects the evolution of human ideology and moral concepts to a large extent. Of course the same is true for our Chinese characters. Whether this kind of evolution is good or bad is another matter, but it is still interesting to think about it seriously. Here are a few examples. They are fallacies. You don’t need to take them too seriously and just treat them as jokes.

Unintentional love is also love

Love is the most sacred, noble and pure word. Haven't you heard a song that sings: "Love is the most beautiful language of mankind". The current "love" is a simplified word that evolved from the traditional Chinese character. The result of evolution is that the "heart" in the middle of the word love is gone. This kind of evolution is indeed puzzling: love must be loved with the heart, how can you love without the heart? Can love without heart still be called love? Why didn't this character evolve elsewhere, but only the heart? However, from the perspective of the development of society and people's thoughts, we have gradually seen some truth. Today's love has a wider meaning and wider scope. Not only love that comes from the heart is considered love, but these loves also have some incidental meanings. For example: love the care of the party...; love the welfare of the country...; dear, I love you... the banknotes; I love you... daddy's black gauze hat;..., etc., etc. This love also has the content of interests, money, and other content. That's right, because these loves don't require the heart. Perhaps this is the result of human evolution, so it is not surprising that love has evolved without a heart.

The function of a job

A job can be divided into two meanings: position and occupation. A position is an official title, such as director, secretary, etc. Occupation is the job category, such as accountant, engineer, etc. In fact, the word "vocation" only came into being in modern times. The original title was "行", such as: "Three hundred and sixty years of practice, and the number one scholar will be the best." Therefore, the word "job" in the past only meant position. There are requirements for jobs. If you don’t believe me, you can think about the traditional Chinese word for job: it consists of three parts: ear, sound, and gun. It requires ears to listen, a mouth to make sounds, and the ability to pick up weapons to fight. It seems that the overall quality requirements for people who hold certain positions are not low, so it is not easy to be truly qualified for the position. But it's different now. The profession has evolved so far that it doesn't need so many functions at all. It only needs one ear. Some people may have questions: Is it enough for those who hold positions to just listen with their ears? No need to speak? Don't need to do anything? Now that you don't need to fight, don't you need a person with a position who has both ability and political integrity? Such questions may be too naive. The quality of some current employees is not the same as what people expect of them. Corruption is endless, there are many people who neglect their duties, and those who bully the people and prey on the masses are often exposed. The masses worship them as Buddhas. However, they do not ask for your blessing, but they do ask for less harassment. From this point of view, the evolution of "office" is still reasonable. How can one say that a person only uses his ears to serve as an official and does not disturb the people? That's right, he's qualified.

Hui Fu actually

Hui may be the most fashionable word today and the word that appears most frequently. The traditional Chinese character for "Hui" is "人" (人), which looks like the character "Zeng" under it. It can be seen that the original meaning is to meet and meet each other, such as "making friends through literature", "meeting master and apprentice", etc. From this aspect, it can be seen that there are not many participants in the meeting, the scale is not very large, and the number of occurrences Not often either. It's different now. It has evolved into a simplified "hui", and there is a qualitative difference. You see: the current word "hui" has a person on the top and a cloud on the bottom, which means a crowd gathers. There are more people attending the meetings, the frequency of meetings is also higher, and the types of meetings are endless. General meetings, central meetings, small meetings, representative meetings, plenary meetings, retreat meetings, work meetings, commemorative meetings, symposiums, tea parties, celebration meetings, memorial services, etc., etc., are what is now known as "Wen Shan Hui Hai". I heard that a leading cadre made a statistics of the meetings he attended in a week, and counted 15 times. I often see superiors repeatedly emphasizing the need to reduce meetings as much as possible when issuing documents and holding meetings, and take time to do more practical work. However, the thunder is louder and the raindrops are less, and the documents are released as issued. There is no way, the current word "hui" has such a structure, and it is worthy of its name.

Words must be punished

While the shape of some words has evolved, the meaning has also evolved, while the shape of some words has evolved, but the meaning has not evolved. "Penalty" Words are one of them.

The word "punishment" is undoubtedly the most terrifying word. From the sentence of death to the punishment of students to stand, it is the word that people are afraid of avoiding. Where does the punishment come from? The structure of this word tells and reminds you: be careful when speaking. A knife is waiting for you on the right side of the cage above. This means that if you speak poorly, you will either go to jail or be killed. This is not shocking. Qin Shihuang's "burning books and entrapping Confucians", Su Dongpo's "Wutai Poetry Prison", the Qing Dynasty's "Literary Prison", etc. are all clearly written in history books. Now the word penalty has evolved and its shape is different from the original one. However, evolution has evolved, only changing the capital word "yan" into lower case. A cage and a knife are still waiting. If you don’t believe me, just think about how many “rightists”, how many “capitalist roaders” there are, and how many “evil-attack” “counterrevolutionaries” there are in our country. I hope that the word "punishment" can evolve in the future. This evolution is an evolution in a substantial sense, liberating words from punishment.