How to write the month: The upper part is upright, the frame is long and flat, upright, and the width is moderate. Horizontal paintings are evenly arranged.
Knowledge expansion:
The month is a pictographic character, and the ancient Chinese character for month is like a half-moon. Moon generally refers to the earth's natural satellite moon, also known as the moon or lunar moon. At the same time, it often refers to the time unit based on the moon's revolution period around the earth, "month".
Moon is also used as a radical, with words that use moon as a sign. One category is related to the moon, such as: 朔, 王, lang; Image) are derived from cubits, such as elbows and gallbladders; there are also those derived from boats.
"Moon" refers to the celestial body, the moon, which is a star that revolves around the earth. "The Book of Songs·Xiaoya·Tianbao" records: "As constant as the moon, as rising as the sun." The "moon" here is opposite to the "sun", which is the celestial body moon. The moon is opposite to the "sun", so the moon is the representative of night. Like the sun, the moon has long been used by ancient people as a reference celestial body to divide time periods.
The moon’s waxing and waning changes show a cycle, namely New Moon, Midnight, Moon, and Dark. This cycle happens to be more than twenty-nine days and less than thirty days, so the ancients used To record the time of a year, the year is divided into twelve months, with a big month having thirty days, a small month having twenty-nine days, and a leap month added every three years.
In addition, the word "monthly letter" refers specifically to women's menstruation, because this physiological phenomenon occurs every month, and there is a letter like tide.
The moon is opposite to the sun, and the moon is yin, so it is often associated with women. For example, the "moon room" refers specifically to the living room of women; the "moon appearance" always matches the "flower appearance" and describes The woman has a beautiful face. The ancients compared beautiful things with "the flowers are full and the moon is full", while the opposite is "the moon is missing and the flowers are withered" to describe the death of a beautiful woman or the damage of beautiful things.
The oracle bone inscription "Moon" is a pictographic character, which is the pictogram of the moon, in the shape of a sickle, sometimes with a dot inside. "The moon has cloudy, sunny, round and waning phases", but after all, it is less "round" and more "waning", so the ancients used an approximate semicircle to represent the moon. When it comes to official script and regular script, the shape of the "month" character is completely horizontal, and the image characteristics of "moon" are lost.