The second and third parts of A Dream of Red Mansions read: "Every day, I only sing quietly with my sister and maid, guess words, anything will do." Among them, spelling and guessing is an elegant word game, especially suitable for the children of wealthy families such as Baoyu and Daiyu.
Next, a simple explanation will bring you the most elegant spelling in the ancient cultural history of China. I believe you will sigh after reading it: China culture is profound!
Do you know what "Bug II" is? If you don't understand the mystery, at first glance it belongs to unknown so. In fact, Bug 2 is the spelling of "romance", which means removing the words left in the border, meaning "boundless romance"! Some people say that removing the border is not "_ 2"? But let's not forget that the traditional spelling of the word "wind" is "wind" Because there is no apostrophe on the worm in Chinese characters, it is passed down from mouth to mouth as "worm II".
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In ancient books, word splitting games are not uncommon. For example, in the Southern Song Dynasty, Hu Zai wrote a famous poem: "The sun and the moon are bright and faint, and the mountain wind rises." The broken stone skin is strong, but the old wood will not die. Where can people come from? If the meaning is a thousand miles. Yan Yong and Yong Huang are ambitious. "
We can find that the first two words of each sentence are the split of the third word, which is lively and interesting to read. And deliberate spelling doesn't feel like deliberate patchwork. The whole poem goes in one go, which not only gives people a sense of beauty in form, but also makes people excited in content, and the charm of reading is endless!
Of course, the earlier spelling can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. For example, the life of Yang Xiu, a famous counselor in the Three Kingdoms period, depended on spelling. He has cracked the spelling meaning in Cao Cao's Kuo, A Box of Crisps and Chicken Ribs, which aroused Cao Cao's suspicion. This is the chop in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and there is no lack of chop in another famous work, A Dream of Red Mansions.