There is no "一" in the word "心" in the word "德" in Quanjude. What allusions are there?

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Analysis:

The word "virtue" on the Quanjude plaque is missing one horizontal line

After Yang Quanren, the founder of Quanjude, opened the Quanjude Roast Duck Shop, he asked a scholar named Qian Zilong to inscribe a plaque. This plaque has gone through many ups and downs and spanned several dynasties. It has been hanging for more than 130 years. But I wonder if you have noticed that the word "virtue" on the Quanjude plaque is missing a horizontal line. why is that? Please take a guess.

Some people guess: Boss Yang invited Qian Zilong over at that time, and the two had a drink. Yang Quanren learned that Qian Zilong’s calligraphy was very good, so he immediately took out paper, ink, pen and inkstone and invited Qian Xiucai. Write a word. Because Qian Xiucai drank two more drinks, he was in a daze and accidentally forgot to write the word "virtue" across the line.

Others said: When Yang Quanren started his business, he hired 13 clerks per day, plus 14 people per day. In order to allow everyone to work with peace of mind and work together as one, Qian Xiucai was asked to write one less horizontal line to express that everyone should not have the same knife in their hearts. After hearing this, you may ask: Wouldn't adding a horizontal line mean that you are single-minded?

Of course these are all speculations and legends. What's the real reason? It turns out that as early as more than a thousand years ago, "virtue" was like a polyphonic character. It was written with multiple characters and could be written in two ways. It could have one horizontal line or no horizontal line. This can be confirmed by the ink marks of famous calligraphers of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. For example, the word "De" in the "University Stele" written by Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, which is now erected in the Confucian Temple of the Imperial College in Beijing, does not have a single horizontal line; another example is the word "De" written by Zheng Banqiao, a Qing Dynasty painter who lived at the same time as Quanjude was founded. Some have a horizontal line, and some do not. This shows that in the past, both ways of writing the word "德" were correct.

In order to maintain the original historical appearance of the Quanjude plaque, the word "德" on the plaque has always been missing one horizontal line.