Cao Fei whispers "A Thousand Words" 005: Cold comes and summer goes.

Have you found a strange phenomenon in your daily life? There are many synonyms in Chinese characters. For example, "cold" and "summer" in the fourth sentence of Qian.

What does cold mean? Xinhua Dictionary gives two explanations. One is cold, such as cold; The second is poverty, such as poverty. This is very strange. Since the two explanations of cold can be replaced by other words, why should we create one more word?

Look at the heat again. It has only one explanation-heat. Then let's use heat. Why add another word?

If the students studying our course are primary school students, they may still think, "If there are not so many words, my learning pressure can be much less!" "

Yes We can say cold directly, poor directly and poor directly. We can also rename it "Xiao Shu" and "Da Shu" in the 24 solar terms. This will not change the original meaning of the word.

In that case, why did the ancients make so much noise?

In this class, we will explain this problem from this place.

Let's use the word cold as an example.

In our Chinese context, there is such a special situation that two words with similar or even the same meaning are put together to form a common word. Like the cold.

Cold means cold. Cold also means cold. It can be said that these are two synonyms.

We should use two words to explain a problem that can be solved by one word. There must be an article in this.

Let's go back to ancient times and see what happened.

There are two cold words in Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

One of them is the writing of left and right structures. On the left is an image, referring to a person's body. Something like grass is drawn around this image, indicating that people are in the haystack. On the right is the symbol of implantation.

We can imagine that a person lying in bed wrapped in a haystack must not be a warm season. Because if the temperature is high, this person doesn't need to spread grass on the bed. Even if he did, there is no need to spread it so much and so thick. Wrap yourself in it.

The cold characters on Oracle bones are more vivid.

Two vertical lines are added under a word, representing the house, the house. There is a long vertical line connected with a short vertical line, which was written by Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Four dots are drawn next to the person. Also refers to straw.

In other words, a person in the house, but also wrapped himself in straw. You can imagine how low the temperature is.

This concept has been strengthened in inscriptions on bronze.

On the basis of Oracle Bone Inscriptions's second writing method, Jinwen added two short horizontal lines at the bottom of the word, which means ice.

This intention is even stronger. A person has been hiding in the house, still wrapped in hay to keep warm. Even so, my feet still feel cold. Tell me how cold it is.

At this point, you can understand. Cold is a situation that is colder than cold.

According to this reasoning, let's look at Summer Heat again.

The summer characters in Oracle Bone Inscriptions have not been found, and the earliest summer characters that can be found are inscriptions on bronze.

The characters in bronze inscriptions are basically the same as those we use now. Above is a day representing the sun, and below is a singer. The reporter's people.

The word sun is easy to understand, and it is the sun.

But how to explain "zhe"?

In Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the character is written like this. The upper part of the operator is a common multiplication symbol, that is, two diagonals cross each other, and there is a vertical line from top to bottom at the intersection of the two diagonals.

An elliptical source point is also drawn in the center of the leftmost and rightmost parts of the symbol. Such a symbol means that firewood is burned by fire.

In the second half, the poem we are writing now is the image of Oracle Bone Inscriptions's fire.

There is fire below and burning wood above. The word "Oracle Bone Inscriptions" means "cook". Cooking. Cooking.

As for how "zhe" later evolved into today's meaning, let's talk about it in detail when we have the opportunity.

Speaking of which, the meaning of summer heat is vividly portrayed. There is a big sun facing the sun above, and there is a pot cooking below. This feeling is really not a simple summary of heat energy.

The ancients believed that "depression" was the beginning of heat and "summer" was the extreme of heat. "Cool" is the beginning of cold, and "cold" is the extreme of cold. That is to say, what is the hottest situation? What is the coldest situation in summer? Cold.

Cold and summer represent the two most extreme temperature conditions.

The word "cold comes and summer goes" is taken from Zhouyi: "cold goes and summer comes; Summer has gone, and the cold has come; Cold and summer push each other, and the years are long. "

The original meaning is that winter has gone and summer has come, and summer has gone and winter has appeared again. The coldest season and the hottest season appear alternately, which indicates the change of time.

Of course, I'm talking about this.

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Let's call it a day. Let's meet again next time.