Borrowed tongue characters are one of the phenomena of using words in ancient books in China. Tongue borrowing is universal and metonymic, that is, words with the same or similar pronunciation are used instead of words. Some people think that some common characters are white characters (other characters) written by the ancients. As a matter of fact, the first person to write a generic character can be said to have written a white character, but later generations have followed suit, and it is a long story.
The word replaced by a generic name is called this word, and the word temporarily replaced is a generic name. Such as * * * its exhaustion ("the candle of martial arts to retreat the Qin teacher"), * * * general confession, in which confession is the word. The commander-in-chief, the second son, the third son, and his wife ("Gou Jian destroyed Wu") are handsome and have the same rate, and the rate is the word.
Homonym is a necessary condition to pass the customs. The so-called homonym refers to the ancient sound. The same means that the initials and finals are the same; Similarity means that the initials are the same and the finals are similar, or the finals are the same and the initials are similar, or the initials are similar and the finals are similar. If you lose everything and don't know it ("When the Candle Fires the Qin Dynasty"), you will know everything, so that the strong will take the old woman ("Goujian Destroys Wu") and take all the marriages, with the same initials and rhymes; The benefits of eating are less ("Touching the Dragon and Telling the Queen of Zhao"). If you are addicted, the rhyme is the same and the initials are different.
When we read classical Chinese, we should read the pronunciation of common words with the present pronunciation of words. Although the homophones or homophones were similar at that time, they are somewhat different now due to the change of language, so the homophones of this word should be pronounced differently. For example, as Qin Bo said, making an alliance with Zheng (Qin Shi, the Death of a Candle) makes sense, so we should read the word Yue when reading aloud. (This article is selected from Bowen Gao Yi Edition)
In the process of learning classical Chinese, we should pay attention to the identification of interchangeable words. The similarity principle of homophones is an important principle for us to identify interchangeable words, and it must also be proved. In other words, to judge whether a word is a generic name, it should be used in other places besides here.