There are many ways to write the word "fire" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, all of which are hieroglyphics in the shape of flames, and the dots above depict the splash of Mars. In bronze inscriptions, it is enough to see the flame rising from the radical "fire" (so far, no unique word "fire" has been found in bronze inscriptions). In Xiao zhuan, the shape of the word "fire" still retains a little flame. Regular script fire evolved directly from Xiao Zhuan, and its structure is completely consistent.
The original meaning of the word fire is flame. For example, there is a saying in Wang Chong's Lun Heng: "Fire burns people." It means like burning someone to death. The word "fire" in the above example can be used as a noun or extended to a verb. For example, "The Book of Rites" says, "Insects don't bite, but don't use fire." In other words, the insects haven't hibernated, so don't burn the fields. In Shuo Wen Jie Zi, Xu Shen explained fire from another angle: "Fire goes out.
The trip to the south became inflamed. "Destruction is the traditional word of destruction in China. Liu Xi explained it clearly in "Interpreting the Name and the Heaven": "Fire, transformation, transformation. Some people say that it is destruction, and everything is destroyed when it enters. "This means that fire can burn everything. The ancients said that "fire is said to get angry", which means that when a fire burns, it has the image of emitting light, dissipating heat by astigmatism and rising transpiration, which leads to the meaning of temperature, light, change, movement and rising.