——The world is big in the word, and the sun and the moon are long in the book
The word:
The word means breast. ("Shuowen")
The word means life. ("Guangya")
The ancient "zi" is like a new-born child in a house, which means that a man builds a house, marries a wife, and gives birth to a baby. Therefore, the "word" we see every day is actually very warm.
"Words" run through our lives.
Life is nurtured, and the word "zi" means pregnancy. It is said in "Yi Tun" that "a woman's chastity is not called chastity, and it is her character that lasts ten years." The "word" means that a woman is pregnant.
"Zi" means fertility, "Zi Ru" and "Zi Yu" both have this meaning.
After the baby is born, you still have to raise the child. Therefore, "zi" also means to raise, and "zigu" means to raise orphans.
You need to be given a name when you are born. "When a man is twenty, his name is on his crown." When he reaches the age of twenty, he has grown up, and his friends are not allowed to call him by his name, so he adds a word on top of his crown. "Zi" has the meaning of naming, such as Zhuge Liang, whose courtesy name is Kongming.
The process of growing up requires learning to read and write. "Zi" also means writing and calligraphy.
As the years grow older, it is time for children to get married when they are older, and for girls when they are older. "Zi" has the meaning of a woman getting married. When she is in the boudoir, she is waiting to get married.
In ancient times, transportation was inconvenient and the journey was long, so only swan geese could send letters, so the words took on the meaning of letters.
The cycle of life, love between a man and a woman, getting married and having children, becoming a parent, and here comes pregnancy and childbirth, starting a new cycle.
A "word" is a person's life, and it is also the endless continuation and change of human civilization.
The road ahead is long and the words are full of love. This journey must be lived inch by inch and written word by word.