Bronze inscriptions inherited the shape of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and the word "moon" after seal script seemed to rotate as a whole. The lines lacking the moon surface and the short vertical line in the middle of the half moon gradually evolved into two horizontal lines, which became a familiar style today after Qin and Han Dynasties.
The explanation of the moon in Shuo Wen Jie Zi is "Queye". The essence of yin. "This means the lack of the moon, because the moon is not as constant as the sun, but the lack of a full moon. The moon, also called the lunar moon, is opposite to the sun.
The definition of "Illustrated Parts of Speech of Dream School in the City" is: "The common name is Mingyue, which is Taiyin. On the 30th and 29th of every month ... when the seal script is like the moon winding up and down, in a shadow. The full moon is like a ball. It goes around the earth and around the sun. It is about 6480 Li in diameter, 72 Wan Li from the ground, 49 times less than the ground. There are mountains on the moon, and the moon uses sunlight as light, so there is light on one side of the sun and no light on the other. "
When it comes to "moon", you have to mention poetry. There are too many poems that have taken the moon for thousands of years.
From the poem "The Book of Songs Chen Feng Yue Chu", "The moon is in the sky ... the moon is in the sky"; As Yang Di Yang Guang's "Moonlit Night on a Spring River" said, "Waves will go to the moon, and tides will bring stars".
Meng Haoran's Sleeping at Jiande: How wide the sky is, how close the trees are, how clear the water is and how close the moon is! ; Then to Zhang Jiuling's "Looking at the Moon and Philip Burkart": The moon is in the sky, and the horizon is * * * at this time.
From Wang Changling's "The Great Wall": Qin Zhiyue closed the Han Dynasty, and people did not return on the Long March; To Li Yu's Young Beauty: There was an easterly wind in Xiaolou last night, so my country couldn't bear to look back on the moon.
From Ouyang Xiu's "Chess Book of Life": willow tips on the moon, people meet after dusk; To Yue Fei's "Man Jiang Hong": Thirty fame, the dust settled, eight thousand miles of clouds and the moon.
From Yang Shen's "Linjiang Xianzi": White-haired fish on the river, used to watch the autumn moon spring breeze; To Nalan Xingde's "Butterfly Loves Flowers": Hard work cherishes the bright moon in the sky. The past is like a ring, and the past has become a sigh.
There are countless stories, or whispering, or inspiring, or like a quiet and clear picture, or like a sad Su Su tune. "Moon" is really an important image in China's poems, bearing countless delicate feelings and profound philosophical thinking of the ancients.
Li Bai still loves the moon, with the loneliness of "until I raise my cup, I ask the moon, bring my shadow and let the three of us", the magnificence of "the moon rises from the mountain of heaven in the infinite haze of the sea of clouds" and the stupidity of "I didn't know the moon when I was a child". Nothing is more deeply rooted in people's hearts than "looking up, I found that it was moonlight, and then sinking, I suddenly remembered home." This feeling is similar to Wang Anshi's sentence "Spring breeze is green in Jiang Nanan, when will the bright moon shine on me?"
There is a saying in Zhang Zhong, "Who saw the moon by the river first? When was the photo taken at the beginning of Jiangyue? " Su Shi has a comment that "people have joys and sorrows, and the moon has ups and downs". China people's questions about life are placed in the clear universe of heaven and earth, and they meet and separate, either sad or happy. The poet understands that life is incomplete after all, but he still draws a broad and romantic background.
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Back to the theme of reading Chinese characters, "month" is extended to a time period in the calendar, and a period of the China lunar calendar changes according to the phase of the moon, that is, the period from the absence of the moon to the absence of the circle is January. In the Song Dynasty, Weng Juan wrote a poem: "In April, there were few idle people in the countryside, and sericulture was planted in the fields." Obviously, the "month" here refers to a month in the lunar calendar.
"Moon" also means moonlight and moonlight. For example, Tao Qian's Return to the Garden: "In the morning, I will treat the waste and take Yuelian home." Let's see an old man in thick clothes, with a hoe and moonlight on his shoulder, walking back to the hut under the fence in southern Shandong.
Shuowen records that all the moons belong to the moon. Let's take a look at the words from the month. For example, the word "Wang Shuo" refers to the first day of each month, while Want Want refers to the day of the full moon around 15 of each month.
Although there are many words beside the word "moon", they have nothing to do with the moon. For example: stomach, feet, fat, etc. This is because the word "Yue" once had a very similar appearance to the word "Rou" when it developed to the stage of Xiao Zhuan, and the word with "Rou" as the radical was written next to the word "Yue". Since the official script, the words "Yue" and "Rou" have been clearly distinguished as independent words, while the radicals have followed the usual style, when it involves too many words.
Regarding the explanation of the word "moon", we have learned here together for the time being, but there are still many contents waiting for us to explore. Finally, we end with a poem, please savor it.
A piece of plum, red lotus root, fragrant residual jade autumn.
Li Qingzhao [Song]
Lotus root is fragrant, and jade is lingering in autumn. Gently untie Luo Shang and go to Lan alone. Who sent the brocade book? The word goose returns, and the moon is full of the west building.
Flowers bloom and fall, and flowing water gurgles. One kind of lovesickness, two places of leisure. There is no way to eliminate this situation, only frown and mind.
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Reference materials and sources
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2. Illustrated Parts of Speech in Cheng Zhimeng School, edited by (Qing), China Literature and History Publishing House, first edition in August, 20 14.
3. Shuo Wen Jie Zi, Xu Shen (Eastern Han Dynasty)
4. Modern Chinese Dictionary (7th edition), edited by Dictionary Editorial Department of Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Commercial Press.
5. oracle calligraphy Dictionary, edited by Fan Zhongyue and Chen Daying, Hubei Fine Arts Publishing House, first edition in April, 20 19.