Cultural Interpretation of Game Meaning

The entertainment function of culturology is largely manifested through word games. Compared with other characters in the world, Chinese characters have unique advantages in this respect, because its box structure is most suitable for word games.

Tracing back to the source, our ancestors planted the gene of "play" when they created words, such as the word "father", which is said to be "holding a staff" in Shuowen, and the word "mother" is "like milk".

Some examples of divination in the Han Dynasty also made use of the separability of Chinese characters. For example, the nursery rhymes quoted in Pei Songzhi's note in the History of the Three Kingdoms: "A thousand miles, He Qingqing; Ten days of divination, still unborn ",is to curse Dong Zhuo by" spelling ". "Senecio" is the word "East" and "Xunbu" is the word "Zhuo". This method of role separation is very common in later games.

In human activities, on the surface, there is obviously no utilitarian activity except art, which seems to be a game; Therefore, it is an important discovery with unique views that Schiller linked the game with art, which is contrary to work ethics, and regarded the game as the origin of art. However, Schiller and Spencer thought that games were the result of excess energy, but they destroyed this theory. In fact, "labor theory" also implies the idea of "surplus", but the surplus in "labor theory" is not the essence.