Like "Xiang", it is used to describe the strong fragrance and floating taste of various flowers.
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How the ancients spoke is a very interesting topic and a difficult question to answer. But there are some ways to approach the "final answer". One way is to judge according to the existing historical materials. There are some words that record what the ancients said. Through the earliest Oracle Bone Inscriptions, scholars can get in touch with Chinese 3,000 years ago.
Later, there appeared a unique "pronunciation dictionary" in Chinese, namely rhyme books and rhymes. Such as Qieyun, Jiyun and Guang Yun. There was no phonetic system in ancient Chinese, and they used anti-tangent method to express the pronunciation of Chinese. For example, the word "Dong" can be marked as "Dehongqie", which means that the pronunciation of the word "Dong" is spelled by "De" and "Hong". The ancients also arranged words with the same rhyme together to form "rhyme".
When all the pronunciations of Chinese characters are drawn in a set of tables, it becomes a "rhyme chart", and readers can find the words they need to look up according to the initials and finals. Traditional rhyme and rhyme are very important. Linguists can not only find out the secret of ancient Chinese pronunciation, but also compare today's language with it.
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