"Feasting" means feasting. This is a rather peculiar Chinese vocabulary that is not included in any idiom dictionary, but it is often used in everyday colloquialisms. "Happy" is described as very happy, and its meaning is very clear;But what do "duo" and "yi" mean?And how did it come together?I believe that many people do not know.
Let's start with "Duo". "Duo" is a later word, which is a pictograph, and below is "wood", which resembles the shape of a flower above. "Saying Wen Interpreting Words": "Flowers, trees are hanging flowers." Duan Yuci explained: "All the branches and leaves and flowers are said to be flowers." Today's people say that a flower is a flower. Since it is in the shape of a drooping flower, of course the flower can be called a "flower".
As for the title of "ear", there are two interpretations: one is that the shape of the earlobe is similar to the shape of the flower drooping, and the expression of "tree drooping" can be changed to "earlobe flower", so it is called "ear";One is that the flower is drooping next to the tree, so the word "flower" extends the meaning on both sides, for example, the ancients called the buildings on both sides of the main building "Duo Lou", and the left and right corridors of the main hall were called "Duo Corridor", all of which belong to this usage. The ears are located just on both sides of the head, so they are called "ears".
"Flower" can also be extended as a verb, meaning "to move", because the flower is drooping and will be blown by the breeze. We know that some people have the ability to make their ears swing slightly, like fanning the wind with a miniature fan, and for such people, it is estimated that their ears are verbs themselves, because their ears do move!
Among the silk books unearthed from the Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha is the book "The Four Classics of the Yellow Emperor", in which the article "Sixteen Classics: Righteous Chaos" wrote: "I will look at the death of his past and be careful, and wait for his future to be shaped and private." The meaning of these two sentences is: I will investigate what Chiyou has done in the past and take action, and wait for Chiyou to do all the bad things in the future before cooperating with the action. The word "flower" here is the verb.
Let's talk about "Yi" again. The ancient character of "Yi" is written as "", that is, the left half of the word "Yi", which originally refers to the chin. The Eastern Han Dynasty scholar Liu Xi explained in his book "Interpretation of Names and Forms": "Yi, raise also. Move at the bottom, stop at the top, and chew things up and down to support people. "The mouth is open, and the most primitive function is, of course, to chew, so "Yi" is trained as "nourishing", chewing food to nourish people.
There is an idiom called "commanding and commanding", which means not to speak, just use the chin to indicate how the other party or subordinates behave, how arrogant it looks!There is also "Xie Yi", which means to smile and laugh, so happy that the jaw is open. However, it should be noted that in ancient times, the chin included the upper and lower parts of the mouth, namely the upper and lower jaw, while today it refers more often to the lower jaw. When chewing food, the upper and lower jaws move together, so the word "yi" is related to eating.
"Duoyi" was used for the first time, from the Book of Changes. The twenty-seventh hexagram of the Book of Changes is called the "Yi" hexagram, which is the way of diet and nutrition throughout the whole text, and the word "Duoyi" appears: "The ninth day of the first month, the spirit turtle of Sher, watch me eat and eat, fierce." "The spirit turtle is used for divination, so it is very valuable, and it is used as a metaphor for treasure. Wang Bi, a scholar of the Three Kingdoms period, commented: "Those who eat eat, chew also." Kong Yingda further explained: "Eating is a chew that is moving, and it is ...... to be greedy for foodThe flower is the motive, such as the grasp of the hand is called the flower. Now move it, so know how to chew it. "Feasting" means agitating the chin or cheeks to chew food. This hexagram is a word of exhortation, which means that instead of cherishing your most precious things, you give up your wealth and come to see me eat with my cheeks puffed out, which is very dangerous!
How to eat a person Liu Zongyuan has a poem: "Duo Yi enters the fruit, holding the crab claw." "芰 (jì) real" is water chestnut. Without opening the chin and mouth, how can water chestnuts be eaten in the mouth?This is almost a tailor-made poem dedicated to explaining "Eating"!What is chewed with puffed cheeks must be food, so the word "eat" is extended to the meaning of yearning and envy. The Ming Dynasty writer Shen Defu once described an interesting scene of an official vacancy in the book "Wanli Ye Won the Compilation": "In the year of Xin Chou, the Zhejiang officials were vacant, and there were only a few people who ate the food. "It's too vivid to use "Duoyi" to describe the appearance of a monkey who covets an official position!Just "eating" is not enough, the ancients added a deeper degree of "great happiness" in front, very happy, then this feast must be a feast!