What are the five thoughts of a shell character and a centipede?

Five views on centipede with shell characters.

Fu (pinyin: fu) is a first-class standardized Chinese character (commonly used word). This word first appeared in the Western Zhou Dynasty. "Fu" is a pictophonetic character, from north to five tones. The original meaning is tax. It also refers to the collection of taxes. It also means to promulgate and grant.

The bay looks like a shell in the Oracle Bone Inscriptions. In ancient times, shells were used as money, so the words next to shells were mostly related to the meaning of money. Wu and Oracle Bone Inscriptions are composed of ambition and harmony, which means conquest by force.

Fu originally refers to pay, pay for horses and chariots, etc. "Hanshu Shihuozhi" said: "Give it to the battle of chariots and horses, and enrich the use given by the state treasury." It means: it is used to replenish military supplies and enrich the national treasury for reward.

Because Wu is composed of squares, which means half a step in ancient times, it can be used to measure land and collect land tax on this basis. So tax extension refers to land tax, such as land tax. Later, it was generally called taxation, and it was extended to verb taxation. "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" explains: "Fu, Lian also." Collecting taxes is collecting taxes.

Development of Chinese characters

Since ancient times, China has said that "calligraphy and painting are of the same origin", because the earliest source of words is pictures, and calligraphy and painting are brothers, born from the same root, and have many internal relations. The origin of Chinese characters is the original painting, and primitive people express themselves in the form of "painting" in their lives. Slowly changed from the original picture to an ideographic symbol.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions refers to the symbols carved on animal bones-hieroglyphics or graphic characters, which are found in Shandong (Chifeng, Guanzhong and other places) and are the earliest recognizable characters in China. In 2005, Professor Fengjun Liu, a famous archaeologist and director of the Institute of Fine Arts and Archaeology of Shandong University, discovered and named it "Bone Carving", and identified the carving tool as agate and other acute-angle gems.