As the book Guang Ya Shi said, the word poison, bitter and poisonous was given the meaning of harmful substances later. Originally, it only described the bitter taste. Later, the literati felt that the mother was feeding her children, which was equivalent to tasting an unspeakable bitterness, so they put the mother word into the poison word. In addition, the earliest human discovery of toxic substances came from plants, such as the legendary Shennong. The mother letter is not only used to describe human beings, but also describes the natural breeding and growth. Therefore, the word "poison" also represents a plant with a particularly bad taste that is naturally bred and grown. Therefore, the meaning of the poison word will not affect the positive meaning of the mother word at first, and it can be said that it interprets the greatness of the mother word from another aspect. It was only later that people in later generations gave the meaning of "harmful substances" to the poison word, but kept the original writing, which made the poison word look so inhuman.
Poison, except for babies who are not sensible, or stupid, will try their best to avoid it. Experts in ancient and modern times analyzed the structure of poisonous characters, saying that the upper part is a variant of poisonous characters. The sound of grass is like a plant seedling bud, indicating the meaning of growth. Therefore, the ending of the word poison represents plants. He also said that the lower part is actually a no, which means to refuse. Plants that are rejected by the human body, that is, toxic plants. Such a complicated operation is just to understand the words and tell the reason. It seems that new plants are poisonous. Shuo Wen Jie Zi says: Poison, from thick, from bad, is harmful to people. It seems that most of the grass seen by the ancients is poisonous. However, I am ashamed to express my dissatisfaction again, and I decided to simplify the interpretation of Chinese characters. The most famous poison in ancient times should be counted on the head of the owl. Silver carp was originally a kind of bird, and the medicinal liquor leached from its feathers is said to belong to the genus poison crown, which (at least in ancient times) died after drinking it.
this is a bit strange. The ancients' understanding of poisons should come from life. It can be summarized into three categories: first, eat it out. This is the most common, after all, there must be countless first attempts in the way of taking from nature, which is the greatness of the first crab eater. The second is being attacked. Such as snake bites and mosquito bites. The third is infected by poisonous gas and fog. The discovery of poison should be the first one. What's strange is that what boring person will eat or soak wine with the hair? Therefore, the discovery of poison can be regarded as a trace.
It's meaningless to speculate on the discovery process, but this poison was discovered and used after all. I have never drunk alcohol or seen it, but I know that the first use of this poison is to kill people. There are very few records of ostrich in ancient books, and even the image is not very clear. It is conceivable that this bird was very rare even in ancient times. It is a miracle that such a rare bird feather is found to be poisonous. It is said that silver carp went extinct thousands of years ago. Therefore, people who can kill people with poison are not ordinary people, and people who can be poisoned by poison are not ordinary people. The person who is qualified to make words is not an ordinary person. He can see the poison, and even must have seen a bird. When he wanted to make poison characters, he first thought of ostrich, so he painted the image of ostrich as poison characters. The upper part is the head and neck, and the lower part is the body and legs.