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I have been thinking about such a problem these days: man is a very complicated higher animal. Why are the strokes of the word "person" in Chinese characters so simple that we can pronounce it as "person" with only one stroke?

This question is difficult to answer.

The Chinese definition of the word "man" is: a higher animal that can make tools and cooperate with them. This explanation has nothing to do with the simple strokes of the word "person". It just tells us that the difference between human beings as higher animals and other animals lies in the use of brains and hands. Making tools must first have a brain, and production and use are all done by hand under the control of the brain. Everyone knows this statement, so I won't ramble here.

"People" used to be hieroglyphics, but today it has become a combination of letters. Why does this simple stroke symbol represent the evolution of complex things? Does this tell us that being a man is actually a very simple thing? When you think about it carefully, it's not like this, because every one of us once lamented: it's really hard to be a man!

Being a man is difficult, but writing is easy. There seems to be no necessary connection between "being a man" and "writing people", but if you think about it again, there will be some connection between them. It is precisely because man is a complex higher animal that it is almost impossible to express all the five senses, limbs and emotional thinking with a single Chinese character symbol. So the ancients came to a reverse thinking, since it is difficult to do, just use a simplest symbol to express it. Although this writing is simple, there is a lot of room for thinking. Ancient people were best at expressing complex things with simple symbols. For example, one black and one white divide heaven and earth into yin and yang, which hides many mysterious and endless changes and mysteries; A very simple symbol, Yin and He, forms the Eight Diagrams, and then deduces the sixty-four hexagrams, which contains all kinds of simple and changeable philosophies in the world. The word "person" is probably the result of this kind of thinking. So I think the reason why the word "person" is so simple must be related to the ancient theory of Yin and Yang.

The word "person" seems simple, but its connotation is extremely rich. One left and one press intersect at one point, which is Tai Chi. From the perspective of Tai Chi, a left press is two instruments, and a left press points in four directions, that is, four elephants in spring, summer, autumn and winter. The ancients not only divided the universe into yin and yang, but also divided "man" itself into yin and yang. As far as the human body is concerned, the upper half (above the navel) is yang, the lower half is yin, the left half is yang and the right half is yin. Judging from the writing of the word "person", that person is the eldest brother, full of masculinity; Living on the right is like floating silks, full of femininity; From the glyph point of view, the word "person" seems to only represent a person's lower body, such as walking on two feet, but this is actually enough. This tells us that people living in the world should keep running and working, and also tells us that human reproduction is completed in the second half. People's brains and upper limbs are concentrated at the top of the crisscross as the starting point for writing the word "person". This is it. It tells us that all human behaviors must start from the brain and must be dominated by the brain. My association and statement seem far-fetched, but I can't find a more reasonable explanation.

In fact, I didn't write this passage to discuss how difficult it is to be a man, because such discussions and comments have emerged one after another since ancient times, and I can't say anything new. Because I still can't understand why this complicated world makes us cry when we are born from the mother.