The stroke order of Chinese characters: point, left, horizontal, horizontal, vertical, horizontal, horizontal, left and right.
Mei (pinyin: měi) is a common Chinese character, which first appeared in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. The ancient glyph of beauty is like a person standing in a headdress, which originally means beautiful, beautiful. "Beauty" not only expresses the beauty of concrete things, but also expresses abstract meanings. For example, describing a person's noble character is called "virtue". Beautiful things often give people a pleasant feeling, so "beauty" has a satisfactory meaning, and "beauty" is sometimes used as a verb to praise; Make it beautiful.
According to Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi, beauty is a knowing word. From sheep, from big. Duan Yucai wrote: "The sheep are big and fat." Mutton tastes delicious, so people often divide the word "beauty" into "sheep" and "big" and say that "sheep is a great beauty". In Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the "big" superstructure is not a sheep's head, but a feather-like ornament.
A person's (big) head is decorated with towering curved feathers or similar headdress, which is naturally beautiful, so it is used to create beauty and aesthetic feeling. In Oracle Bone Inscriptions, there is a horizontal part at the lower part of the feather; Feathers changed from four to two, and the upper part became similar to "sheep".
After the Western Zhou Dynasty, this ingredient has been very close to "sheep". The mainstream structure of the Warring States period was almost the same as that of Xiao Zhuan, and at the same time, as the main variant of future generations, the structure from sheep and fire began to appear. It is a "big" mistake to draw the component "fire" as A first and then as B.
The mainstream structure of official script inherits the wrong deformation from sheep to big, and further turns it into the beauty of regular script; Judging from the structure of component fire, another big change is the "big" component. Modern times take "beauty" as the standard font.