There are several pronunciations.

There are two pronunciations, namely [s] and [yǐ].

"Si" is a first-class word in Chinese, pronounced as "Si" or "yǐ", which was first seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Its original meaning is fetus, or it may be a sacrifice to children. Extension refers to the heir, which can be regarded as the sixth of the twelve branches. It can also mean the "snake" and termination in the zodiac (that is, the so-called "Ye Si" in Shuo Wen Jie Zi).

Example:

1, Tatsumi established his own family, Tatsumi proposed to get married, and he was married for ten years. Tatsumi Chengde shook hands, China's candles were oriental, and Pipa's music was happy.

2, thinking about the West Lake on the Qingming Festival is good, full of eyes. -Ouyang Xiu's "Picking Mulberry Seeds, Thinking about the West Lake on Qingming Day"

3, thinking about the West Lake on the Qingming Festival is good, full of eyes. Who is fighting for the way? Green willows and bamboos push the cart. Tourists will go at dusk and wake up drunk and noisy. The road turned into a dam. Until the city head always flowers.

In fact, there are three festivals in Tomb-Sweeping Day today: Shangsi Festival, Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day, among which Shangsi Festival on the third day of the third lunar month is the most important festival in the ancient "bathing" activities.

According to the ancient books, the activity of "offering sacrifices to think" existed as early as Qin and Han Dynasties. People bathe on the seashore in the first three days of the third month of the lunar calendar and hold sacrificial ceremonies in spring to eliminate evil spirits and plagues, which is an ancient custom of ancient people's health care.

Extended data:

Oracle Bone Inscriptions, also known as "Wen Qi", "Oracle Bone Inscriptions", "Yin Ruins" or "tortoise shell and animal bones", is the earliest mature writing system discovered in China so far, the source of Chinese characters and the root vein of Chinese excellent traditional culture. The remains of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the early Shang Dynasty were mainly found in Zhengzhou Mall, and the Yin Ruins in Anyang were the representative in the late Shang Dynasty.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the most important writing in the late Shang Dynasty. Archaeological findings show that there are a large number of Oracle bones here, with more than100000 pieces. The content is mainly the divination records of the Shang royal family, and it can also be seen that the clan emblems of tribes in many countries are called names.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions has about 4,000 words, which reflects the basic composition of the writing symbol system. Compared with the stereotyped symbol system of ancient Chinese characters established in Shuo Wen Jie Zi, Oracle Bone Inscriptions already has many types of Chinese character configurations, including the "four shapes" in the traditional "Six Books", namely pictographic, ideographic, knowing and pictophonetic characters, which shows that in the late Shang Dynasty, the Chinese characters represented by Oracle Bone Inscriptions have basically established the configuration mode and the configuration system has gradually matured.

It can be seen from the aspects of font composition, symbolic degree, writing form and function. Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the late Shang Dynasty is a character symbol system with long development time, mature structure and complete functions, and it is a systematic and complete character sample that can determine the maturity of Chinese characters.

20 17 10, Oracle Bone Inscriptions was selected into the memory of the world. By June 2022 165438+ 10, about150,000 pieces had been discovered in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, China, and more than 35,000 pieces were excavated by scientific archaeology, with more than 4,000 words.