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The above reply was originally on the second floor.
Originally, no word in Chinese characters can sum up the meaning of "angel", and the landlord hopes to find one, so the closest word is "God", because the word "angel" in ancient China is "God made by God". However, I didn't expect [Shi bika- director level 8] to come up with the word "bird" and plausibly "demonstrate" that my word "god" was inappropriate. In order to prove its fallacy, I will refute it with examples.
The Chinese dictionary of Han Dian. com explains the meaning of angel as follows:
1. refers to the god created by the Emperor of Heaven; The messenger of the gods. Zuo Zhuan's Five Years of Public Service: "The baby angel dreamed of saying:' Sacrifice to, crouch over the girl. "Historical Records Zhao Shijia": "Yu Huotai Mountain is also the messenger of Hou." Kim Gan Bao's Searching for God Volume 4: "I am also an angel. When I went to burn the Donghai family, I felt that I saw the load and talked to each other. " Xie Ming Zhao Zhe's "Five Miscellaneous People Part II": "It is a false policy to ask for gold when you meet an angel."
2. Judaism, Christianity, Islam and other religions all refer to the messengers sent by God. Qing Huang Zunxian's Miscellaneous Poems on Cults: "Buddha is not as expensive as an angel, so I advise Yu to recite more."
In western literature and art, the image of angels is mostly a girl or a child with wings, and is often used to describe a person who is innocent and lovely and brings joy and happiness to people. Hu Yepin's "The light is just around the corner" V: "There is also a little angel with wings on it, full of bows, and dangerously trying to shoot that arrow ..." Chapter 12 of Ba Jin's "Death": "She is obviously an angel of love, how pure and gentle!"
4. Known as the messenger of the son of heaven. Tang Wang Jian's poem "Feeling Old in Huaqing Palace": "When the dust reaches Yuan, angels are anxious, and thousands of officials send six dragons back at night." "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" for the first time: "How can Ann have so much money to flatter angels when food rations are still insufficient?" Qing Li wrote in "Scratching Jade Head by mistake": "The Empress heard his empty words and sent someone to the palace. The daughter vowed not to change the festival and made the angel return empty. "
5. Meteor name. Jin Shu Tian Wenzhizhong: "Meteors, angels are also." Songshi Tianwen Wu Zhi: "There are eight meteors, and one of them is an angel."
6. Buddhist language. Refers to old age, illness and death. The Book of the Beginning: "There are three angels in the world, the so-called old, weak and sick."
According to my verification, all the definitions in the Chinese dictionary are from the Great Chinese Dictionary.
Therefore, the concept of "angel" in ancient China was synonymous with "God", and there were angels in the book "Searching for God" written by Gambao in Jin Dynasty. What is not a god? In the pre-Qin period, the word "angel" refers to "the messenger sent by the Heaven Emperor", and in the concept of ancient China people, it was "God".
The image of "angel" in ancient China was neither a girl nor a child with wings. We can't confuse the angel image in western Shintoism introduced to China at the end of19th with the original angel image in China. The landlord asked if there is a word in Chinese characters that can express the concept of "angel", so naturally we should look for it from the concept of "angel" in China, and there is no closer word except "god". How can we make a "bird" with wings? When our ancient ancestors made Chinese characters, Catholicism in the West was far from being born. China people have known the image of the western "angel" for more than one hundred years, and the history of Chinese characters can be traced back to Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty in 16 BC, more than one thousand years before the birth of Jesus. When China had the word "angel", there was no Jesus in the west! ! !