The plot of obscure words

The plot of the word "obscure"-the story of Chinese characters in the canteen

"mèi" sound. Jinwen from that day on, never, never. Dark, unknown, unknown. "Day" refers to Asahi. "Withering" refers to the tender branches and leaves on the upper part of trees. "Sun" and "non" together are "treetops in the sun". Basic interpretation: the sky is not bright. (Photo 1) was written by Yang Yisun, a calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty, with a left-right structure. (Figure 2) The Chinese characters written by Maeda, a modern calligrapher, are symmetrical in structure. This word retains the writing style of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and translates the word "Tian" under the word "Wei" to form a symmetrical Chinese character. Laozi, a thinker in the Warring States Period, and Yang Dun, a calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty, both wrote the symmetrical word "ignorance" (the sun is below). It is not uncommon in ancient times to form symmetrical Chinese characters with visual beauty by transforming the upper and lower structures of Chinese characters. Of course, we can also consider writing the "sun" on the tree to form a real tree top map, as shown in Figure 3. Ignorance gives birth to treetops, and birds live after dusk. "

See Art Classics, page 483.