The original meaning of Oracle Bone Inscriptions's benefit

The original meaning of Oracle Bone Inscriptions's Yi is as follows:

1, Oracle Bone Inscriptions is an ancient Chinese character in China, which mainly appeared from the late Shang Dynasty to the early Western Zhou Dynasty. Oracle Bone Inscriptions, with various glyphs and rich contents, is an important material for studying ancient history, culture, religion and politics.

2. Oracle Bone Inscriptions's word "profit" originally meant "increase" and "gain". In Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the image of the word "Yi" is that a container is full of grain or other items, indicating an increase in quantity. This image intuitively expresses the original meaning of "benefit".

In ancient society, the increase of food and other necessities meant the improvement of people's living standards. Therefore, the word "profit" also has the meaning of "rich" and "rich". At the same time, the word "benefit" also has the meaning of "benefit" and "benefit", which refers to something beneficial to individuals or collectives.

The word "profit" also has the meaning of "beneficial" and "beneficial", which means something that has a positive impact on people or things. For example, the ancients often said that "learning is like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat." Here, "progress" means "benefit", which means that learning can make people progress and is a beneficial behavior.

The characteristics of Oracle Bone Inscriptions are as follows:

1, with a symmetrical and stable pattern and three elements of writing, writing and composition. There are many strokes, thin lines and many folds, and the strokes carved by the knife are delicate, thick and peeling.

2. The most striking feature of Oracle Bone Inscriptions is hieroglyphics. Its glyph form is similar to the image of the real thing and has intuitive image characteristics. For example, commonly used symbols include straight lines, curves, points and crosses. These figures are related to the actual situation.

3. Oracle Bone Inscriptions glyphs have the characteristics of pictographs, signifiers and cognition, that is, pictographs with shapes similar to things, signifiers representing abstract concepts and cognitive characters composed of two or more glyphs. This combination of sound and shape makes Oracle Bone Inscriptions's glyphs more diverse.

4. Oracle Bone Inscriptions's book is carved on tortoise shell bones, which belongs to the records of divination and sacrifice activities in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Therefore, its body structure is simple and beautiful, the size and direction of depiction are scattered, the brush strokes tend to be diverse and unified, the structure and composition are rigorous and meticulous, and the density changes are faithful and eclectic.