Bark is a knowing word.
It is composed of the character for mouth and the character for dog. Its original meaning is not difficult to understand. It can be seen from the glyph that its original meaning is dog barking. "Shuowen Jiezi" says: "Barking is the sound of dogs." Tao Yuanming, the great poet of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, has this sentence in the first poem of the poem "Returning to the Garden and Living in the Fields": "Dogs bark in the deep alleys, and cocks crow at the top of the mulberry trees." It means that dogs are barking in the deep streets and chickens are croaking on the top of mulberry trees.
Wang Fu, a scholar of the Han Dynasty, said this in his article "On the Difficulties of Qianfu on the Worthy": "The proverb goes: One dog barks in form, and hundreds of dogs bark." The literal meaning of this proverb is, a dog sees Something screamed; although the other dogs saw nothing, they heard the dog's bark and started barking along with it.
Explanation of ancient books:
Kangxi Dictionary "Tang Yun" Fu Feiqie "Ji Yun" "Yun Hui" Fang Feiqie, Yin Qi. "Shuowen" dogs bark and moan. "Guangyun" dog sound. "Poetry·Zhao Nan" No one is allowed to bark. "Warring States Policy" The dog barks at Yao. "Chapter 9 of the Songs of Chu" says that the dogs in the town are barking, and the barking is strange.
The barking of a dog is called "barking". Group words: Sichuan dog barks at the sun, barks wildly. "Mencius, Gongsun Chou, Part 1": When you hear the crow of cocks and the barking of dogs, it reaches the four realms, and all the people are there. Han Wang Fu's "Qian Fu Lun". "Xian Nan": the shape of a dog barking, the sound of hundreds of dogs barking.
Barking dogs, place names. "Qiyu" is dominated by swallows, but they invade the land of firewood and barking dogs. "Note" Yan's two cities. "Ji Yun" may be written as "Yun".