Various ancient writing styles of Zhou Dynasty

1. The ancient writing method of "Zhou"

1. Oracle bone inscriptions

①The original character "Zhou": Zhou, the image of oracle bone inscriptions is like a city full of crops. Pastoral means building ridges to demarcate and enclose land for planting.

② Combined word "zhou": Zhou is both the phonetic and form participle, indicating a circle. Zhouzhou (zhou, meaning a circle) 辵 (辵, "walking on the bottom", walking), the original meaning of the coined word: verb, walking around, walking in a circle.

2. Bronze Inscriptions

The "Zhou" in Bronze Inscriptions adds "口" (circle) to the oracle bone inscriptions, emphasizing the theme of "encircling the land for planting", (enclosing the land for planting) (Encirclement), the boundary of soil and fields that encircles crops. Some bronze inscriptions will be written, leaving out the crops in the fields. ?

3. Seal script

The seal script mistakenly changed the word "field" in the gold glyph to "use", causing it to be completely unrecognizable. ?

4. Official script

Official script follows seal script and squares the font.

2. The modern writing method of "Zhou"

1. Cursive script

2. Running script

3. Regular script

Extended information

Basic definition of "Zhou"

1. Original meaning, noun: a wall built to enclose land and to demarcate boundaries. The original meaning is only found in ancient Chinese?

2. Noun: surrounding, periphery.

Examples: around, around, around, around?

3. Adjectives: tight, without missing parts, all.

Example: Zhou, Mi Ye. ——"Shuowen" (Zhou means close.)

4. Adverbs: exhaustively, thoroughly; comprehensively, universally.

Examples: thoughtful, thoughtful?

5. Original meaning, verb: to go around, to circle around. Zhouxuan Zhouyou Zhouzai Zhouzai?

Example: Zhou Tianxia. ——"Book of Rites? Yue Ling" (Traveling around the world)

6. Noun: a cycle, a reincarnation.

Examples: weekly report, weekly, weekly meeting, anniversary, first year, cycle

7. Quantifiers: wheel, circle. ?

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