Photo right or photo right, should we use images or photos?

"Photography" is more common. But "taking pictures" and "taking pictures" can be used universally.

"Phase" refers to the original phase, and "image" refers to imitation. When "photography" first became a word, it was almost exclusively used to take pictures of people. So even taking pictures now should be called "photography", and "camera" should only be used as "photo". Later, some modern literati used the word "portrait", which led to the confusion of the two words. In the main articles of Ci Hai and Modern Chinese Dictionary, only "camera", "camera" and "photography" can be found, but no "photo" can be found. The definition of "taking pictures" in Ci Hai is: "The process of taking a scene image with a camera and developing it to get a positive image."

However, there are two words in Chinese dictionary:

Photography (1) refers to photographs. Lu Xun's Confucius in Modern China: "Confucius didn't leave any photos, so naturally he couldn't understand his true face." Mao Dun's Frosty Leaves as Red as February Flowers VI: "This is a photo taken by his mother forty years ago." 2 take pictures. Han Beiping's Africa Night under the starry sky: "He often urges me to take pictures when he sees that I have a camera."

Taking a photo (1) is the same as "taking a photo". Photos. Ba Jin's Strong Warrior: "He carefully tore the photo from his notebook, folded it carefully and put it in the right pocket of his cotton uniform." ②? Take pictures. Go to the park to take pictures.

Phase, from the wood to the eye, save also. The original meaning of "Xiang" is to look at the province, and it is extended to look at the appearance; The original meaning of "image" is similar in appearance and extended to image. So "taking pictures" and "taking pictures" can be used universally. As for why "phase" is more commonly used, "camera" only uses "phase", which is related to the habit of classical Chinese.

There are many images in Buddhism, such as "I like, human like, all beings like, immortal like"; There are "biological facies, life facies, heterogeneous facies, extinction facies" and so on; In Buddhism, "phase" refers to the meaning of the form or state of matter. The influence of Buddhism also influenced the formation of new words later, so the word "Xiang" is naturally used more now.