Chapter 16: The Unity of Chinese Characters
That afternoon, we took the high-speed train back to Shangzhou. On the train, Chunlai asked, "Master, are you studying even when you're watching videos?"
I laughed and said, "Chunlai, in our line of work, reading articles is not an article, watching videos is not a video. Pay attention to everything.
When you see something, keep it in your mind, then distinguish the authenticity and compare it yourself, eliminating the false and retaining the true. Over time, you will understand everything.
So when I watch videos, whether they're funny or about singing, I just skip them all. If I see something useful, I watch it over and over again. Then I study whether it makes sense or not."
Chunlai said: "I remember, pay attention to everything and you will learn."
After returning to Shangzhou, I began to teach him the basics of fortune-telling. Of course, I won't go into detail about this.
It would take a book of several hundred thousand words to explain it clearly. It's not something that can be explained in just a few hundred thousand words.
I plan to teach Chunlai for two or three years, but I can't guarantee that he will graduate.
In addition to teaching him the basics of fortune-telling every day, I mainly taught him how to interpret Chinese characters, which is my strong point after all.
I'm very busy during the day, so I can only teach him at night.
One night, I said to Chun, "Chinese characters are systematic. If you study them slowly, you will be able to understand the relationships among them."
Chunlai nodded.
I wrote down [teeth] and asked, "Does teeth mean one thing or two things?"
Chun said, "It means the same thing."
I shook my head and said, "No. The ones in the front row are called teeth, and the ones in the back row, which are mainly used for chewing food, are called teeth. If not, how can we call it 'grinding teeth'?"
Try it yourself, and see if you bite the back of your teeth. You can't bite the front."
Chunlai tried it and said, "It's true."
I said, "No gnashing, just clenching. Try it."
Chunlai tried it.
I said, "Go look in the mirror."
He looked in the mirror and came back, making a weird face and saying, "It's so ugly."
I laughed and said, "It definitely doesn't look good on a man. This is something etiquette training companies use to train flight attendants and etiquette ladies. It's called a smile."
Chunlai slapped his thigh and said, "Yes, that's true."
I took a sip of tea and said, "So in the past, women were required to smile without showing their teeth. There was no such thing as smiling without showing your teeth."
Chunlai doesn't know why I am talking about this issue.
Only then did I tell him that the ancients first carved words on the back of a tortoise, which was called oracle bone script, and later carved them on bamboo slips, which were called bamboo slips.
In order to save space, we try to keep each word with one meaning. For example, "衣" means "clothes" and "pants", not "衣" as we know it today.
Nowadays, when we write on paper or on computers, the space is endless, so we can write as much as we want without worrying about running out of space. Look at those online novels that often have millions of words; they're all just empty writing. Except, of course, for Bauerri's.
When spring comes, the birds cry of geese, geese, geese, and laugh wildly with their necks bent towards the blue sky.
I said, "Remember, in ancient Chinese, one character often represented one meaning. Sometimes, one character could represent two meanings, which is called a Tongjia character."
Chunlai poured me more tea and said, "It's good to learn from a teacher. He can explain things clearly."
I started teaching him words with the grass radical.
芽 (bud): Grass radical + tooth. What does it mean? Remember, this "bud" is invisible; it's a tiny sprout growing inside the seed.
Meng: Grass + Ming. What does it mean? Only when something protrudes beyond the surface is it called Meng. Grass that can see the sun and moon is called Meng.
壮 (Zhuo): Grass radical + 出 (Chuo). This means the bud has sprouted and is ready to grow stronger, consolidating its foundation. Hence the saying "thriving growth."
Stem: The radical of the character "草" (grass) plus the side of the character "劲" (strength). It means the bud has grown into the main stem, with branches and leaves also growing on the side.
Flower: Grass radical + Hua. This means the bud has changed. Something else has grown out of it.
Rong: Grass radical + Baogai radical + Wood, indicating that the buds have grown into luxuriant branches and leaves.
Ying: Grass radical + Yang. Yang has two meanings: the center and the end. Here, it means the end. Ying means the curtain call, which is called [falling flowers].
Therefore, the word "Ying" should not be used alone to give names, such as Liu Ying, Zhang Ying, Li Ying...
It is okay to use three characters, including English characters.
These characters represent the life cycle of a bud. Although they were not as they are today when the characters were created, a closer look at the oracle bone script and bronze inscriptions reveals even more vivid images. This is because Chinese characters are mostly pictographic.
Then, when you are fortune-telling, you can combine the meaning of the word with the direction you want to predict.
Let me take finding a partner as an example.
For example: If he wants to use the word "bud" to test and ask about marriage, you can say: There are some signs.
If he uses the word "cute" in his test, you can say: We should have met before.
If you get the character "stem," you're saying, "Make an effort to pursue her and deepen the relationship. Take the initiative to get to know her family." The stem character means it's time to grow branches and leaves.
You took the character [壮] and you said: the relationship is deepening.
Take a [flower] test. You said, you must have held hands and kissed.
A prediction for the character [荣]. You said, you should get married soon.
If you test the word [英], you can say, pay attention to this, the other party's thoughts are a little shaken, don't let this bowl of yellow tea get cold.
Of course, what I said is the most basic thing, and you can say a lot based on this meaning.
As soon as the grass radical is mentioned, a lot of problems arise in spring.
He asked, "What does [苗] mean?"
"The grass that grows in the fields."
"What does [萋] mean?"
“A lot of grass.”
He said, “So that’s what it means.”
I asked, "Can you give birth?"
Chunlai shook his head and smiled, "No."
“Only your wife can give birth, and she can give birth to many children, so the radical of grass + wife represents many.
[The clear river reveals the trees of Hanyang, and the fragrant grass covers the Parrot Island] - This means that there is a lot of grass growing on the island.
[I send the prince away again, the grass is full of farewell feelings] - This is about the feeling of parting, there is really [a lot] to say. The grass of longing is growing wildly.
Chunlai nearly fell off his chair, exclaiming in amazement, "My language teachers from junior high school to university couldn't even speak at your level. They just made me memorize the text. I guess they themselves don't even know where the word [萋] came from."
"Well, I don't think you're lying. He doesn't even know that [萋] means a lot because there's a wife underneath.
The Chinese refer to women as the mother of childbearing and reproduction. Only the mother can represent the multitude.
Chunlai asked, "So what does festival mean?"
I said, "The knot is not the end of grass, it is the end of bamboo. Bamboo + that is."
"What does thin mean?"
"That's easy to understand. The grass blades are relatively thin."
I finally summarized it to Chunlai: "Everything related to grass is related to plants and trees."
Chunlai said, "Where is the 'Bodhisattva'?"
"[Bodhi tree]."
"Where is the vast [Cang]?"
"Green is the color of grass."
"Where's the 'Guan' in Dongguan?"
"It refers to a plant similar to water plantain. Dongguan was established as a county in 331 AD and renamed Dongguan in 757 AD, the second year of Emperor Suzong's reign. This is because the area is rich in Guan grass, which can be used to make straw mats."
Chunlai sighed: "Master, how many books do you have to read? You know everything."
I said, “There is also a character next to it called [歹], which means disabled.
For example: die, disabled, reproduce, funeral, disaster, death, special, annihilation... Just one look at it and you will know that the meaning is not good. It represents a person's life and the process of life and death.
Reproduction (reproduction) - injury (injury) - disaster (disaster) - annihilation (elimination) - death, funeral, mo (death) - extinction (extinction).
Someone named his son Cao Shu, hoping that his son would become a special person. I changed his name.
Chunlai smiled and said, "Master, if you teach at a university, you will attract many more fans than Brother Qiang."
I couldn't help but laugh and said, "How can you compare with him? He's so eloquent."
Chunlai suddenly asked, "Why is eloquence called a lotus?"
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