The poison word at the beginning must be mother. This word has nothing to do with it.
This is also the most common poisonous thing in ancient life, that is, poisonous plants and animals, which threatened people's lives at that time.
The poisonous words in ancient Chinese, and the writing on them.
According to the current writing, it is like this:
In the unearthed Qin bamboo slips, the word poison is written on it, indicating that the following is not mother, but nothing.
If you change it to regular script, it should be like this:
Now the simplified Chinese characters change the following Wu to mother, so there is a poisonous word.
I didn't want to participate in the discussion of this problem. After reading all the articles that answered the Lord, I feel it necessary to say a few different opinions.
Poison, poison also. When everyone is talking about "poison", many people are "poisoned" by Baidu. Some people moved the articles on Baidu word for word here, and some people handled them, but they were still suspected of "operation".
To find out why the word "poison" is the "mother", it must be said that the ancients created the word. As we all know, there are six ways to make the word * * * in ancient times: pictographic, indicating, knowing, pictophonetic, transliteration and borrowing. Pictograph and signifier are two methods of word formation, which have nothing to do with poisonous characters. Turn and borrow are two ways to use words, which have nothing to do with poisonous words. It doesn't take much pen and ink here. The remaining two methods of word formation are knowing and pictophonetic characters.
The way to know is to combine two or more words into a new word according to their meanings, such as "Xie", separate the cow from the horn with a knife, and put the three words together to form a word solution. Obviously, the word "poison" is not a cognitive word.
Then only pictophonetic characters are left. What are pictophonetic characters? It is a word composed of shapes and sounds, such as the word "Sakura" of cherry blossoms. There is a word "wood" next to the shape, which means trees, and a word "baby" next to the sound, which means that this newly created word is pronounced "baby" and has nothing to do with babies.
"Poison" is a pictophonetic character, the oldest seal script. The poison word should be the prefix of grass, with a consonant at the bottom and grass next to it, indicating that it is a kind of grass, and the consonant next to it means reading consonants. Later, the characters evolved into "sheng" on the top and "mother" on the bottom. Note: Poisonous, coarse and harmful weeds often occur. Some people say that the word "Wu" under the new words is also correct, because "Wu" and "mother" were commonly used words in ancient times. Some people say that the word "Wu" was written by Wang Xizhi and the word "Mother" was written by Yan Zhenqing. Actually, it's all one word.
The word "poison" has nothing to do with mother, but the pronunciation.
The biggest mistake of this proposition is that pictophonetic characters are used as cognitive words for everyone to discuss, which leads many people to get into trouble.
The characters we use now have evolved through countless times and are the cultural crystallization handed down by our real ancestors.
As for the word "poison" that everyone sees now, why is it the following initials?
You should refer to the form of Xiao Zhuan, not the most poisonous woman.
The description of "poison" in Biography: above is a "fate", below is a "no" to deny and refuse; Together, they are harmful substances rejected by life.
Later, in the evolution of Xiao Zhuan, "Wu" became "mother", which led to your misunderstanding of "women are the most poisonous".
There is another saying: Xu Shen in the Eastern Han Dynasty mentioned in Shuo Wen Jie Zi: "The poison is thick. Harmful people are always born. " It means poisonous weeds are thick and astringent.
Poison, thick also. Harmful, constant. From me to you. The word "poison" has a good structure from top to bottom, but below it is "poison" instead of "mother". This dislocation will give birth to a lot of unnecessary imagination, so careless spelling will often put the lid on the head of the word (there is the word "Wu (mother)" in the branch system of Kangxi dictionary), and when you see that only the word "mother" has become a word, you will mistake it for "poison".
Poison has nothing to do with women. According to the existing ancient Chinese characters and documents, there is no evidence that "poison" was originally related to women.
Speaking of this problem, we should tell the story of the evolution of Chinese characters.
Before Qin dynasty, people used seal script, which was round and comfortable, free and easy, and very beautiful. But it's also slow to write. As a tyrannical and autocratic dynasty, the Qin Dynasty had harsh penalties and strict laws, and there were many people in prison. In order to complete the task, the recorded person had to write quickly, so in order to write conveniently and quickly, he slowly straightened the place that should be round, and Chinese characters went through the process of "standing", that is, the process of transforming seal script into official script.
Then let's take a look at today's protagonist-"poison".
The small seal script of the word "poison" is written like this:
Its official script is written like this:
Because there are great differences between seal script and official script, it may be difficult for us to distinguish the subtle differences. If we compare the word "poison" written by Wang Xizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty with that written by Yan Zhenqing in the Tang Dynasty, we may find some differences.
We can clearly see that the second half of Wang Xizhi's "poison" is a "Wu", but in Yan Zhenqing's Tang Dynasty, the following "Wu" became two points, that is, the word "mother". In Biography and the book, in fact, the second half of "poison" is the word "Wu". The explanation of "thing" in Shuo Wen Jie Zi Zhu is "forbidden" and "nothing". The original meaning of the word "poison" is a harmful grass.
Therefore, the second half of the word "poison" is actually "no", not "mother". Later, it was written as "mother", which was just a kind of "misinformation" in the evolution and use of Chinese characters.
Until today, except Chinese mainland, the lower part of the word "poison" in other regions is still "no" instead of "mother".
Therefore, there is nothing wrong with a great mother. The word "poison" is followed by "mom", which has nothing to do with her. Don't think too much!
Author: Geng Yu
From the pictures arranged by Mr. Xu Zaiguo, we can see that no matter how the word "mother" changes, the iconic "two points" of mother are more prominent. According to Xu Shen's six word-formation methods, it obviously belongs to pictographs.
Although it looks like the "mother" below now, it is not. This word is the result of regular script deformation. It turns out that the word below is "no", not "mom". Even so, it has nothing to do with the origin of the word "poison", because the word "poison" is the prefix of "Yi", that is, the prefix of "Yi", which is from "Yi" to "Yi" professionally. In other words, poison is a kind of grass or related to it. Read "Yi" (m: i) (you read it correctly, it's "Yi" by Lao Ai). This is another way of word formation: pictophonetic characters.
Yi: It used to mean that men behaved badly. (Chinese dictionary, 10424 page)
"Hey, people are dying. Learning, never. (Shuo Wen)
"Yi" means knowing the word, and "Yes" means running amok. A man, according to Confucius' point of view, should be "self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world." This is a serious matter. You spend all day in the queen mother's bed. You are not the emperor's father. Can you behave yourself?
The upper and lower families are like a family. Together, the grass is a big family with nothing to do. Grass is for animals. You can't be harmful. This is a very serious matter. But if cattle and sheep eat and die, will they do nothing? Therefore, doing nothing in the grass is "poison". You see, how reasonable this statement is! Between people, Lao Ai is the nemesis, between grass and poisonous weeds is the nemesis. (Cang Xie painted by Mr. Xu Beihong)
You see, the "mother" of the mother and the lower part of the "poison" of poisonous weeds look very similar, but they are not related by blood. Cang Xie was not together when he coined ci, but his old man's house was still classified. Don't you think it's hateful to let the calligraphers of the Jin Dynasty make them like family members?
Poison, from birth, from mother, take the word poison apart, it means life above, mother below, and mother refers to women, so some people interpret this word as the most poisonous woman's heart, which is wrong. The second half poison is not the mother used today, but none (wú).
Poison is a knowing word, which means life above and doesn't mean don't below, so together it can be interpreted as, isn't what is rejected in life poison?
And "Shuo Wen Jie Zi":
What (Cm4o), like grass, is frequent and infrequent, which should be understood as ubiquitous here. So the second half of this sentence means that harmful poisonous weeds grow everywhere.
This is the incomplete explanation caused by the ancient people's lack of understanding of nature. The ancients thought that poison grew from grass, so they poisoned it, usually with some highly toxic herbs. Shennong tasted a hundred herbs just to test the poison.
Thick means gathering. For example, we say that the sunshine in summer is vicious, because the sunshine in summer is gathered. Moreover, poison has the meaning of resentment and bitterness, so it is not comprehensive to interpret poison as poison only.
It has nothing to do with mother and maternal love.
Most mothers in the world are great, but a few are not. Sometimes, for the sake of your lover, you will never see your husband or children who eloped with your lover. Such a mother is not great.
When the ancients first created the word "poison", the following was not the word "mother"; This has been handed down, and the word "mother" is written below, which is the result of the official change that began in Qin and Han Dynasties. Therefore, don't blame the ancients for confusing "great mother" with "poison".
Xiao Zhuan's Poison is written like this-Xu Shen's Shuowen Jiezi explains this word: "Houye. Harmful weeds. Changsheng. Cong Wei. " How to understand it? Duan Yucai explained it very well-he said that "chè" is not bad, and many people said that "Chè" is a "bad prefix", which is wrong. Tiling is a state of vegetation growth, and the upper and lower stems connect the left and right branches and leaves. He said that Xu Shen's "poison" is a harmful weed, which is often born, that is, it is vivid and lush. So it was "thick" from the beginning, which is the original intention of "poison". The important words are three times-poisonous words come from scorpions and poisonous weeds flourish; ……; ..... The first half step of the poison word is not radical, nor is the "mother" below radical. There is no "mother" radical in the 540 radicals of Shuowen. "Mother" belongs to the "female" department. Shuowen also contains the ancient word "poison", that is, the word "poison" in Zhuan. Writing-Xu Shen said, "From Xi 'an? . "？ In ancient times, it was the same as poisonous sound. Another way to write it is coarse ancient Chinese characters. So he interpreted the meaning of "poison" as "strong". First, the ancient word "poison" has a heavy meaning; The second is to use the thickness to describe the appearance of lush grass. The word "poison" was commonly used in ancient literature, but it began in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and there was no corresponding word in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. "Shangshu Pan Geng" says: "Only you poison yourself." "Poetry and Clothes" says: "A gentleman can be good at his things, but a villain can poison others." -The word "poison" here means harm. "Poetry. "The Scholars" said: "Human greed is better than poison." -the meaning of pain. Zhou Li. Celestial officer Doctor: "Take poison according to the doctor's advice." "Choosing a doctor": "All treatments are attacked by five poisons." -here refers to poisonous weeds or other drugs. In ancient times, there were fish poison, chicken poison, dog poison and rope poison, all of which were the names of herbs. "Poison" also means hate; The significance of education; The significance of governance; The meaning of poisoning things, and so on. But whatever it means, it has nothing to do with "great mother". (Biography by Chun, Yong, Qin and Tai)
So, how does "poison" put "mother" below? As mentioned above, it is the result of official changes. Chinese characters include two stages: Qin Shihuang unified the characters before the Six Kingdoms with Xiao Zhuan, and the previous Chinese characters, including Xiao Zhuan, belonged to ancient Chinese characters; The Qin dynasty has begun, and it has officially transitioned to the mature Han dynasty. After that, all Chinese characters are called modern Chinese characters, including the modern Chinese characters we use now. Li Bian is a major change and turning point of Chinese characters, including the following aspects: First, the seal script was dissolved and the Song Dynasty was changed to be straight. Li Shu no longer considers whether it is pictographic, but basically decomposes or changes the lines of the ancient word "Suizi" into straight strokes; Repeated lines become broken pens with square folds, forming strokes such as points, horizontal strokes, vertical strokes, pressing strokes, hooks and folds. This is of great benefit to writing. Second, radical differentiation and radical chaos. In official script, the writing of independent characters and radicals is obviously different from that of ancient Chinese characters, and the "mother" under the word "poison" has also changed. At the same time, for the sake of simplicity, Li Shu changed some uncommon radicals or radicals with more strokes into radicals with similar shapes and fewer strokes, and the change of the word "poison" also reflected this principle. Third, the structure is simple. Li Shu often combined two strokes of ancient Chinese characters into one stroke, or combined more than two radicals or components contained in them into a simpler and easier-to-write stroke structure. The change of the word "poison" is obvious. (Written after official reform)
Therefore, after the official change, the original meaning of a word at the beginning of creation is often lost. This is called "stroke potential", that is, "stroke potential" often disappears, and what remains is "stroke meaning" Therefore, to infer the original meaning of a Chinese character, we must go back to before Xiao Zhuan. The so-called "thinking by shape" according to the strokes of Chinese characters after the official reform is nothing more than "seeking fish from the edge of wood"
The second half of the word "poison" was not originally the word "mother". Moreover, the original meaning of the word poison is not harmful substances, but describes bitterness.
Just like Guangya? According to the explanation, the words poison, bitterness and poison were later given the meaning of harmful substances. Originally, it just described the bitter taste.
Later, the literati felt that the mother was breastfeeding her child, which was equivalent to tasting an unspeakable bitterness, so they put the mother word into the poison word.
In addition, the earliest toxic substances discovered by humans came from plants, such as the legendary Shennong. Mother letter is not only used to describe human beings, but also to describe the reproduction and growth of nature. Therefore, the word "poison" also represents a plant with a particularly bad taste, which is naturally propagated and grown.
Therefore, the meaning of the poison word will not affect the positive meaning of the mother word at first, which can be said to explain the greatness of the mother word from another side.
It is only later that people in later generations endowed the poisonous word with the meaning of "harmful substances", but kept the original writing method, which made the poisonous word look so inhuman.
I think under the poison word is mom's mother's initials. If you look closely at Kun's divination in the Book of Changes, you will know that there is a dragon in six inches, which will turn things upside down to some extent. Why do you say that a mother is called a mother (good rather than excellent)? This poison shows that mother is great. Since being a mother has something to do with her children, she must be cruel to better protect them when they are threatened.