God’s way of making characters is as follows:
1. There are two theories: one is that God’s way of making characters is Hui Yi, Cong Shi Shen. Among them, "Shen" is the shape of lightning in the sky. The ancients thought that lightning was unpredictable and powerful, so they called it God. Another theory is that God’s method of creating characters is phonetic and phonetic, from the sound of 绻 and shen.
Extended information:
1. Shen (Pinyin: shén) is a first-level universal standard Chinese character (commonly used character) in Chinese. This character first appeared in the Western Zhou Dynasty bronze inscriptions [2]. Its ancient glyph consists of "shi" which means altar and "shen" which means thunder and lightning.
2. The original meaning of the word Shen is God, which generally refers to people’s physical spirits and illusory gods. God is extended from spirit and gods to unusual and incredible, such as speed and magic; and It is extended to focus and energy, such as labor and stress; it is also extended to expression, such as expression and energy.
3. Words with both pictographic and phonetic meaning. The word "神" first appeared in the bronze inscriptions of the Western Zhou Dynasty. During the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, "Shen" was also used as the "god" for immortals. The ancient glyph "Shen" is an image depiction of lightning in the sky. In the early days of human society, due to extremely low productivity, it was impossible for people to provide scientific explanations for many natural and physiological phenomena, and they could not control their own destiny. They could only be at the mercy of nature
4. So In nature, the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, land, and even flowers, plants, and trees have all been personified and become spiritual things. The ancients believed that lightning was unpredictable and powerful, and that it was controlled by the supreme god. Later, "Shen" was borrowed as the ninth position of the earthly branch, so "Shi" was added to form the word "神" to express the meaning of "immortal".
5. The word "show" on the left side of the bronze inscription is an altar or an altar, indicating the shape; the word "shen" on the right side indicates the sound and meaning. The combination of the two means that what is being offered, paid tribute to, and respected is a spiritual thing, a god. When it developed into Xiaozhuan, the distortions increased, and the folded and stretched lightning shape of "Shen" gradually turned into a straight middle vertical line in the character "Shen", and the branches on both sides gradually turned into a "mortar" shape.
6. On the basis of Xiaozhuan, the official script combines the strokes in the shape of "炷", and merges the second and fourth strokes of "SH" into "?". It developed into the character "神" in Han Li and regular script. God is the god of heaven, the creator and ruler of all things in the world; for people, the spirit is also the one who controls their own thoughts and actions, so "god" can be extended to refer to the spirit that controls people's thoughts and actions.
7. Changyu's "form" is relatively speaking, indicating its inherent and decisive characteristics. For example, "Xunzi·Lun Tian": "The form is spiritual, and the likes, dislikes, joys, angers, joys and sorrows are everywhere." Idioms include "bewitched", "relaxed and happy", etc.