In ancient times, early people first built a tree as a living nest. After a long time, they turned to build houses on the ground and domesticated wild animals as livestock. "Pig" was also the first to be domesticated.
In order to prevent foreign invasion, the structure of houses is generally a circle, with people living above and livestock raising below. Until today, houses like this are everywhere in remote mountainous areas where brothers live in Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou.
Pigs are one of the most docile domestic animals, and together with cattle and sheep, they constitute the "three livestock", and pork is one of the main sources of people's earliest meat, so leaving pigs behind has become a symbol of "home". People today must not underestimate the word "home". The appearance of the word "home" marks the end of our ancestors' nomadic life! Build houses with wood, raise livestock, start to settle down and enter an agricultural society with agricultural production as the main mode of production. With "home", you can "work at sunrise, rest at sunset, dig wells and drink, plow and eat"
There are many ways to write "home" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jin Wenzhong:
Did everyone see it? There are two pigs in it. Of course, anyone who sees this word, especially the two pigs painted differently, will immediately think that one is a boar and the other is a sow. I like this word very much. Too vivid, too intuitive, too harmonious, too beautiful. But the earliest use of "home" in Jin Wenzhong turned two pigs into one, which is like this:
According to the analysis of philologists, this is a reflection of people's thinking of seeking simplicity, and the development law of characters is becoming simpler and simpler. It is found that the pig "Jia" in the bronze inscription is a boar, which is a pictographic description of the boar.
In matriarchal society, mature women are alone in the room, while men "fly away" and go home as late as boars. Although the changes in bronze inscriptions are concise and save a few seconds to write, I don't like them very much. There seems to be a feeling of family disharmony, such as the well-known divorce, and the lonely pig is not like a complete family. Perhaps this is a manifestation of human development and change.
Whether it is two pigs or a pig, no matter how many ways the word "home" is written, it is more and more like a word. I don't believe you saw the word "home" in bronze inscriptions.