Cover News Reporter Zhang Jie.
As soon as we enter December, there is the breath of the end of the year in the air, and the footsteps of the annual "Spring Festival Gala" are getting closer and closer. On December 2, ** Radio and Television General Station released the theme of the "2024 Spring Festival Gala" - "Dragon Xing Lang, Xinxin Home Country", the party will innovate the integration of "thought + art + technology", meet with Chinese people around the world on Chinese New Year's Eve, and share a wonderful, sincere and steaming cultural feast. After the theme was released, the word "龘" also attracted a wave of hot attention on the Internet.
The main logo of CCTV Jiachen Dragon Spring Festival Gala (according to CCTV WeChat***
Seeing the word "龘", many people estimate that the first feeling is: the structure and strokes are very complicated. The traditional Chinese characters of the three dragons are put together, what do they read, and what does it mean?According to the "Kangxi Dictionary", "龘" comes from the first regular script dictionary in ancient China, "Jade Chapter". In the "Jade Chapter", it is explained that "龘", which is pronounced the same as dá. The dragon is also a description of the dragons taking off.
The structure of the character 龘 is a traditional Chinese character composed of three "dragon" characters, like three dragons soaring in the air. This way of construction not only reflects the imagination and artistic sense of the ancients, but also shows their awe and understanding of nature and the universe. In modern society, although the word 龘 has gradually faded out of people's daily life, it can still be seen in some special occasions, such as calligraphy, art design, etc.
On the afternoon of December 2, the cover news reporter interviewed Wang Qiming, a distinguished professor of Southwest Jiaotong University and director of the Bashu Dialect and Literature Research Center, who is the first member of the famous linguist Professor Zhao Zhenduo and a member of the editorial board of the second edition of the "Chinese Dictionary".
1. The editor-in-chief of Volume 19 of it. Speaking of "rare characters", he said, "Words are the symbols that record language. Rare words probably refer to those words that people don't say much verbally and don't use much in writing articles, and there are many such cases. In 1988, the State Language Commission and the State Education Commission jointly issued the List of Common Words in Modern Chinese, which included a total of 3,500 commonly used characters and sub-commonly used characters. In addition, there are some words that have not entered this table, but everyone is still using, a total of seven or eight thousand. Words like '龘' must be outside the range of commonly used words and sub-commonly used words, and belong to rare words. Rare words that are not usually used often will be used again in some special circumstances in addition to daily language life. ”
At the same time, the main logo of CCTV's Jiachen Dragon Year Spring Festival Gala was also officially released. The main logo of the 2024 Spring Festival Gala of the main station is based on the word "龘" as the main visual symbol, and the overall design is inspired by the distinctive font of "official seal of the national dynasty" in the traditional Chinese seal carving art - nine stacks of seals**, which is solemn and balanced, and is well-proportioned, highlighting the cultural atmosphere of the atmosphere and majesty. The main logo is designed by Gu Yongjiang, the designer of the logo of China's lunar exploration project and China's planetary exploration project, on the basis of traditional calligraphy, it has been "reprocessed" with a modern atmosphere, and the color luster of the metallic texture makes the shape of the word "龘" resemble a chip - from ancient Chinese characters to modern technology, the main logo of the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Dragon connects the ancient and the modern and integrates the future.