What kind of thoughts does the evolution of Chinese characters reflect?

The evolution of Chinese characters shows the importance of territory and territory, and embodies the ancient people's love for the country.

First of all, in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the word "country" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions is "or". In the earliest Oracle Bone Inscriptions, there was an "or" instead of a "country", and there was a national character in the early Western Zhou Dynasty. There are six articles in Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "The country is also a nation. From mouth to mouth or ... Ancient confusion. " Volume 12: "Or, Bonye. From mouth to brother, leave one. First, the land is also. Domain, or from the soil. " It means "country" is transformed from "or". The word "or" is a cognitive word, and its shape is shown in the figure. It is for people to defend their country with a weapon "Ge" ("Kou" means court or society), which means "going out to defend their country" and is the original meaning of "Or".

In the late Western Zhou Dynasty, with the improvement of productivity, cities were built around the transition for better protection, so "country" was used to express "or".

After Qin unified the characters, the word "Guo" was basically stereotyped.

In other words, from the written history of our country, we can know that "Guo" was originally written as "or", which is an archaic word for "domain" and originally meant "country" and "fief". There is "earth" in the word, and there is a weapon "Ge" to defend the land in the city. Later, a four-cell "mouth" was added, indicating that it is so important that it needs to be guarded on all sides. At that time, "Guo" was a traditional Chinese character, but in the later Han Dynasty, the simplified word "Huan" appeared, with obvious meaning: "All over the world, is it the land of kings", and the feudal consciousness is very strong. This word was used by the later Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. During the Wei, Jin and Six Dynasties, the word "Yong" appeared again, and the meaning of "country-oriented" not only reflected the idea of "valuing the people but despising the monarch", but also became a strong direct contrast with the word "Yong".

This also shows that the ancients attached importance to the territory and showed their love for the country.