In addition, it is said that the story of Noah's Ark in the Western Bible has long been reflected in Chinese characters. It is said that the word "boat" on the left is Noah's Ark, and the words "eight" and "mouth" on the right are Noah's family of eight.
Chinese characters are created by our ancestors, which are "looking up at the sky and overlooking the earth", "looking at the hoof tracks of birds and animals from a distance" and "taking things near and taking things far away", which embodies our ancestors' unique way of thinking about everything in the world. Looking at today's Chinese characters, we can get a glimpse of historical humanities from their evolution.
"crouching"-the spirit of breaking through the sky
The "husband" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions vividly shows a gentleman's image. Start with "big" and add a horizontal line to the word "big". "Fu" means an adult, and the horizontal one is a hairpin. In ancient times, boys, that is, underage men's hair was covered with hair. After adulthood, that is, after the age of 20, men hold a coronation ceremony, tie their hair in a bun and tie it on the top of their heads with hairpins. After the hair is crowned, it means that the man has become a "husband", that is, a big man. It can be seen that the original meaning of "husband" is adult man. In fact, "husband" is this man who has matured and grown up. For example, Han Jiayi's "On Accumulation": "The husband does not plow, or suffers from hunger." It means that if an adult man doesn't farm, some people will starve to death.
In ancient times, a man ten feet tall was called "husband", which means big man. However, we should not think that the ancients were taller than modern people, because the ancient system of 1 foot is about 0.6 feet today, which means that the ancient gentleman, even the tallest man, was only 2 meters. Men will engage in all kinds of manual labor when they are adults, so "husband" is extended to people who engage in different manual labor. Like Zuo Zhuan? Yin gongyuan: "for the country, see evil as agriculture." This means that when governors and doctors want to manage their fiefs well, when they see those evil things, they must eradicate them like a farmer sees the evil grass in the field. One of the farmers is a man engaged in agricultural production. There are also fishermen, boatmen and drivers.
Some scholars have put forward different views on the word "husband": "husband" refers to a person who has passed a certain height. Among them, "big" is a positive human image. Add a picture on "big" to show that people who reach this height can be called "husbands". "Zhou Li? According to Village Doctors, the ancient conscription system stipulated that men over seven feet in the countryside (capital city) and men over six feet in the wild (equivalent to today's countryside) could serve, that is, they were within the scope of conscription. From this point of view, the conditions for conscription at that time only looked at height, regardless of age. This is why there are two Mao soldiers in Zuo Zhuan.
The shape of the word "husband" not only represents ordinary men, but also shows people the elegance of people with lofty ideals. Therefore, some scholars believe that "