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What was the name of writing in the morning in ancient times?

Labeling: traceability

People who believe in Liu Shu's "borrowing" often like to give an example that they think is very convincing: "jujube" is often written as "flea" in ancient Chinese in an attempt to prove the correctness of "borrowing". At first glance, what is the relationship between fleas and early morning? Isn't it because these two words sound the same? But after careful analysis, we will find that the two are actually interlinked in meaning.

Say morning first. This soap, the soap bucket, is actually a rubber shell. The color of the rubber shell is dark red. There are acacia trees in Heluo area, and the pods and thorns on the trees are dark red. It can be seen that the word soap has a dark red meaning.

Let's talk about fleas. Fleas also have dark red skin.

In this way, we can find that it is consistent with what fleas represent in color, both of which are dark red.

Archaeologically unearthed bronze inscriptions of Zhongshan King in the Warring States period have early characters, which are as follows:

There is a Japanese character on it and a traditional jujube character on the bottom. In Chinese characters, words indicating time often add a date, such as time, yesterday, Yu, etc. So the date is an auxiliary expression in this word. The word jujube at the bottom is jujube of jujube tree. The fruit of jujube tree has a dark red peel, and the jujube thorns on the tree are also dark red, which completely conforms to the color of soap and fleas.

In ancient times, this moment in the morning was called ignorance or ignorance. Ignorance means darkness, but it means that the sun is just out of the horizon, which means light. Ignorance means when the weather is about to clear up. Cool means bright, and it is also the time when the weather will be sunny. At this moment, the earth is still shrouded in darkness, but the sun is about to jump out of the horizon, and the sun and dusk blend together, and the whole sky is dark red. The dark red weather scene recorded and broadcast by CCTV news channel before the national flag is raised at six o'clock every day is a true portrayal of "early".

Another example shows that it has something to do with sunrise. Xiang Yu received the message that Liu Bang had the ambition to be king, and said, "In order to break Pei Gong's army, we should use troops every day." Feed the foot soldiers tomorrow morning and defeat Liu Bang's army! "Danri" is morning.

It can be seen that the morning refers to the specific moment when the sun will rise in the east and the sky is still dark, but the sun has been seen, which is characterized by the dark red sky at this time. How to express this moment? It seems difficult, so the ancients used something similar to this color to express it, written as early, written as fleas, and written as dates. This is why writing "early" in the morning as "flea" is nothing more than taking its dark red meaning, and there is no "borrowing" relationship in philology at all! On the contrary, the reason why ancient things and sounds are interlinked is because of righteousness. Because they are all dark red (Yitong), the sound of rubber shells, fleas and jujube trees is the same (voice communication). Therefore, the theory of "borrowing" in Six Books is very doubtful.

In addition, people remember time as a word, not just this moment in the morning. Folks call it "darkness" and "dusk" when the sun goes down into the night, "dawn" and "dawn" when the sun rises into the day, and "day" when the sun goes down, which is called "night". Black, white, bright, bright and dusk all indicate the intensity of light or the brightness of colors. Therefore, it is not surprising that people use dark red to represent this moment in the morning.

By the way, according to Zhang's research, grass leaves are dark red at the beginning of germination. So the words below the cursive script mean dark red.

(See my book "Chinese Characters")

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