The stroke order of new characters: apostrophe, horizontal, horizontal, vertical, horizontal.
生, a first-level Chinese character, pronounced as shēng, was first seen in oracle bone inscriptions. The original meaning of life is the sprouting of vegetation. Later it was extended to mean coming from nothing and appearing. From nothing to something, the emergence is extended to the mother's birth and childbirth. Derived from the mother's birth and childbirth, it became the ancient title for young men.
It is derived from the ancient name for young men to mean alive. From alive it is extended to alive, fresh, not dead; alive; human spiritual and physical activities exist.
From the physical and spiritual activities of human beings, existence is extended to the length and number of times a person exists. From alive, fresh and undead, it is extended to immature and unprocessed. It is extended from immature and unprocessed to uncontacted and uninformed; immature and insufficiently qualified.
Knowing words. Characters written in the Shang Dynasty are shaped like grass and trees growing from the ground; a vertical or "·" is added as a decorative pen in the middle. The writing of the Western Zhou Dynasty inherited the writing of the Shang Dynasty, or changed "·" to a short horizontal line, which was adopted by later generations of writing.
This is a pictographic character for birth and growth created by our ancestors. We can see that the lower line of the oracle bone inscriptions (Group B oracle bone inscriptions) represents the ground, and above it is the grass growing, which is very vivid, indicating that this is birth, and the grass is born.
The bronze inscriptions (Group B Bronze Inscriptions) turn the ground into soil, and grass still grows on the soil, which means that grass is born from the soil. The small seal script (small seal script of Group B) is the same as the bronze inscription. It's just that when it comes to regular script, the soil below is still there, but the top doesn't look like grass anymore, but the meaning has not changed.