How to write the word "zombie": horizontally, vertically, dot, leave, horizontally, vertically lift, leave, hold down.
1. Overview of mourning
Mourning is a general standard first-level Chinese character (commonly used character) in Chinese. This character first appeared in oracle bone inscriptions in the Shang Dynasty. It is a pictophonetic character. The shape of the ancient character comes from the mouth and the sound of mulberry. The original meaning of mourning is generally considered to be fleeing, which by extension means loss or loss. It is said that the original meaning of mourning is loss, and this meaning is extended to death. Mourning also refers to things related to the death of a person, or to the way of burying the deceased. They are both used as nouns and are pronounced as sāng.
2. The origin of the word "sang"
There is a glyph in the oracle bone inscriptions. The interpretation of this glyph by predecessors is controversial. Some say it is "忿", while others say it is "忿 (noisy)". "", some people say it is the word "mulberry". Nowadays, academic circles mostly associate this type of glyph with the word "mourning". The word "mourning" in the oracle bone inscriptions is composed of the word "mulberry" and a varying number of surrounding characters "口". Due to inconsistent understandings of this glyph, there are also many differences in understanding of the rationale and usage of this glyph.
The element "death" was added to the lower part of the mourning glyph in the bronze inscription stage. Academic circles also have different opinions on whether the component "death" added in the bronze inscription is a sound symbol or a meaning symbol. The pronunciations of mourning and death are similar. "Mourning" already has the sound symbol "mulberry", so there is no need to add the similar sound symbol "sang", so "sang" should actually be the meaning symbol. The addition of the component "death" to the word "mourning" in bronze inscriptions strengthens the meaning of "escape".
There is also a glyph in the bronze inscriptions, which is based on the oracle bone glyph and adds the word "walk". The ancient Chinese character "walk" looks like a person throwing his arms and running, and its original meaning is "to run". Xiaozhuan changed the mulberry with the word "口" into "cry", and retained the component "death". Therefore, "Shuowen Jiezi" said that the word mourning "comes from crying and death, and death also sounds." The expressiveness of the official script glyphs has weakened. Later, the middle part was straightened into "earth".
The modern simplified character "Mourning" simplifies the two "mouths" of the traditional regular script glyph into one point and one short stroke. The rationale for the formation of the modern Chinese character "sang" has further disappeared, which in turn has made it more difficult to understand the ancient character shape of "sang".
3. Tips for writing mourning calligraphy
The upper half is slightly wider and the lower half is slightly narrower. The vertical pen in the upper half is on the vertical center line; the middle point and the left and right points are written on the left and right sides of the vertical center line; the long and horizontal strokes are on the lower side of the horizontal center line. The tip of the lower half of the stroke is lightly connected to the vertical center line; the long stroke of the last stroke is closed on the lower right grid, and the stroke of the stroke extends beyond the upper part. There is no curl on the lower left side of "mourning".