1. Source
Gifts and food gifts. "Emperor Li Zhou is an official cow": "Eat it, shoot it, and * * * shame it." "Xunzi Wang Zhi": "Preface officer: the number of prisons where the Lord knows the guests. "Hold a feast ceremony. "The Reflect of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Weizhi and Chen Shenju": "Recently, the Han family built princes and kings, and the prosperity was dozens of cities. The Covenant was just a ancestral feast. "
2. dinner introduction
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3. The origin of words
The word "Xiang" was originally written as "Xiang", which was found in Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Yin Shang Dynasty. This figure of Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the embryonic form of the later "Xiang", "Qing", "Xiang" and "Xiang", and these four words are all differentiated from this figure. This word is a knowing word, which consists of three parts. The left and right are like two people kneeling relative to each other, and the middle is like a container for food, which means kneeling to eat and dine.
The figures of bronze inscriptions are basically the same as those of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and the components are basically the same. On the basis of Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jinwen, the word "Xiang" in "Biography" has added an element of "food" below, thus forming a ideographic and homophonic word. The physical structure of official script is the same as that of Xiao Zhuan, but the straightness of strokes has changed. The modern word "Xiang" is simplified to "Xiang", and the traditional word "Xiang" is analogized to "Xiang". The original upper and lower structure is changed to the left and right structure to write symmetry.
From the analysis of glyphs, the original meanings of the first three words are eating and dining, "Qing" is later borrowed to represent the name of an official, and "township" represents an administrative unit. Only the word "township" retains the original meaning of "dining". "Dining" means drinking and eating together.
For example, it is recorded in The Book of Songs: "Friends drink and kill lambs." "Dining" here means a feast. The ancients liked to entertain guests. "Dining" includes drinking and eating. No matter who is alive or dead, people can use "entertainment", so offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods is also expressed by "entertainment".