A horse in Oracle Bone Inscriptions is shaped like a horse's head, eyes, body, legs, hooves, mane and tail. The vertical profile of a horse shows its characteristics. The original meaning refers to animal horses. The inscriptions on bronze continued the pictographs of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and the inscriptions on bronze in Shang Dynasty were vivid pictures of horses.
The inscriptions on bronze in the Western Zhou Dynasty became abstract and linear. Compared with Oracle Bone Inscriptions's figures, it reduces strokes, but still retains the description of the horse's head, eyes, mane, body, legs and tail, highlighting the characteristics of big eyes, neat tail and long mane.
The shape of Xiao Zhuan changed, the combination of strokes decreased, and the shape was basically unified. After the official script was wrongly corrected, the word "Ma" was changed from the line of ancient Chinese characters to the strokes of modern Chinese characters, and the four legs were wrongly changed to four points, which lost its pictographic meaning.
Regular script inherits the writing method of official script, and the font is more regular and unified. The four points at the bottom of the word "Ma" are sometimes written as horizontal lines, which are inherited by later cursive scripts and continue to simplify the word "Ma".
words explanation
1, horse hair [mznot ng]?
Also known as mane tail, it refers to the long hair on the neck of a horse.
2. Maxima [qi ā n lǐ m ǐ]?
A good horse. Metaphor is a talented person.
3. Monday morning quarterback [mupà o]?
This is a chess term, which often refers to delaying action after something happens.
4. zebra crossing [bā n m m m m x I an]?
The white horizontal line like a zebra crossing is painted with paint.
5. Circus [M Line]?
In the past, it refers to various performances of people riding on horses, but now it refers to acrobatic performances of trained animals, such as bears, horses, monkeys and puppies.
6. Dark horse []?
Metaphor is an unpredictable competitor or unexpected winner.