As one of the oldest and unique writing systems in the world, Chinese characters carry the thoughts and lives of Chinese people. The Six Books are the basic knowledge of understanding Chinese characters, including the six linguistic phenomena of pictograms, signifiers, understandings, morphophonics, transliteration, and pretenses. Hieroglyphs express the meaning of words through intuitive graphics, improving the efficiency of communication. Huiyi characters are enriched by merging pictographs to create new charactersAbility to express oneselfRefers to the word thingThe use of lines or markers to indicate specific concepts or actions enhances abstract conceptsAbility to express oneself。The morphophonetic characters are composed of phonetic and ideographic components, which expand the number and vitality of Chinese characters. The development and changes of Chinese characters record different periodsSocialwithCulturebackground, showing people's way of thinking and lifestyle.
In ancient Chinese characters, the mother character always gave the impression of a mother image of gentleness, love, and selfless dedication. However, the mother word is inOracleis a figure sitting on his knees with his hands crossed, and two dots in the middle representing breasts. This is because the ancients believed that the main way of motherhood was to nurse offspring, and this pictographic form intuitively reflected the mother's parenting style. In contrast, the history of poison characters is not so long, but the ancients in different dynasties have begun to use some poison-related words, such as "蠱", "酖", etc., to refer to poisonousAnimals。The shape of these characters mostly adopts the shape of the word "worm", such as a large open mouthAnimals, expressing the fear and precaution of the ancients for poisonous creatures. Later, through the evolution of the words "蠱" and "酖", the modern word "poison" was formed.
Although the words "mother" and "poison" give people the feeling of being at odds with each other, from the perspective of the ancients that all poison originated from herbal medicine, it can be understood that the symbol of "mother" representing the birth of life was selected into the word "poison". Herbs themselves have the dual properties of harming and saving people, and it only depends on how people use them well. In the process of the evolution of Chinese characters, the structure of the poison character included the writing of the mother character, which became a huiyi character. Although in later evolution, the poison character gradually lost the form of the mother character, but this connection was once clearly visible.
In fact, for a long period of time, the lower part of the word "poison" was actually the word "wu", not the current word "mother". The word wu means "forbidden" or "do not want" and is derived from the female character, while the mother character represents the mother who gave birth and nurtured. The origin between these two words can be traced back toOracleperiod, they are all variations of female characters. It wasn't until the appearance of the small seal that people distinguished it from the word wu by adding a skimming to the mother character. The two points of the mother character become an apostrophe, which means inviolable, while the word wu has a negative meaning. The reason why these two words are confused is that they are cognate words.
The Chinese character is ChineseCultureThe treasure bears the long-standing of the Chinese peopleCultureInheritance. In the process of the formation and evolution of Chinese characters, the six linguistic phenomena of pictograms, signifiers, ideologies, morphophonics, transliteration, and pretenses have played a crucial role. In ancient Chinese characters, the mother character and the poison character represent the image of the mother and the poisonous substance, respectively. Although the glyph may seem very different, from the perspective of life conception, it can be understood that the mother is the source of life, and poison is one of the harmful substances. In addition, the mother word and the word are notOracleThe period is a variant of the female character, and through evolution and differentiation, the modern mother character and the wu character have been formed. In Chinese characters, although the words mother, poison and wu are related, they still have different meanings and uses in actual use.