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Chapter 238: One word reflects the past and present! (Please give me a monthly ticket!!!)
hard to imagine.

Zhou Yue really can do it!

Moreover, the way he did it seemed so effortless that it was obvious at first glance that he was extremely skilled.

Just like his architecture courses, almost everyone can understand it, and this is even more interesting than architecture.

Architecture courses still require matching brain waves, but this doesn’t require that!

It seems totally unnecessary.

As long as you know the words, you can understand.

Moreover, you can feel the sublime charm of Chinese characters.

It comes from an ancient bloodline inheritance, and it is not built up overnight.

Even Dean Chen exchanged glances with the vice dean of the School of Arts next to him.

"Teacher Zhou is really good at it? And judging from Teacher Zhou's expression, this relaxed and carefree attitude must be due to in-depth research."

"Yes, we all know these things, but Teacher Zhou can always explain them in a different way. I really didn't feel sleepy at all when listening to his class. I even thought that oracle bone script was so interesting."

Yes, it’s fun!

Who would have thought.

Teacher Zhou made this story so interesting.

Apart from anything else, learning ancient characters is like subverting some of the current character structures and logic, telling you that everything you thought of before was wrong.

In other words, everything you think is imperfect.

Based on your cognition, construct a complex text network.

Regeneration.

But it's extremely fun.

It can be expanded from the current text logic.

This is the charm of words.

It is a complex cognition from the bottom up.

Everyone knows what the words "沾" and "浅" mean.

But who can think about the structure of the text here?

The variations of phono-semantic characters, with the shape on top and the sound on the bottom, or the shape on the left and the sound on the right, are indeed endless.

But each has its own fun.

……

"Let's take a slightly more complicated example."

"Pick."

"This word should be familiar to all of us. Qu, which means to take, is composed of the characters for 'ear' and 'you'."

"But why can it be derived into the meaning of taking?"

"And why is it this structure, with the ears in front and in the back?"

"We can analyze it. The word 'ear' is very pictographic. When you see this word, you can imagine the outline of the ear. There is no need to explain it in detail."

"What else? In oracle bone script, this looks like grabbing with hands, which is also very pictographic."

"Okay, let's explain why the structure is like this and why it can be derived into the meaning of 'take'."

"Zheng's commentary on Zhouli says: 'If one captures an animal, take its left ear and use it to calculate his merits.'"

"In ancient times, when people were hunting or fighting, they would cut off the left ears of animals or prisoners of war as a token of military merit."

"It is derived from the meaning of take." "One word can reveal some of the customs and habits of the time."

"Or marrying."

"You can see that there is a female character added below. From the above, we can infer that it means to capture, to capture a woman. Although it sounds a bit inappropriate now, it was the way it was in that era."

"In ancient times, there was a custom of bride kidnapping, or in other words, in an era when barbaric force was respected, women were obtained through violent means."

"The custom of robbing a bride still continues today. When the husband comes to meet the bride, the bride's family closes the door."

"Those who have been married should have experienced this, right? When the groom comes to greet the bride, some of the bride's family members will temporarily close the door and prevent the groom from welcoming the bride smoothly."

Everyone, "..."

They are all students. Although they have seen or participated in it to some extent, they have never experienced it personally.

"Even in the recent ancient times, women were also an important resource for war. When we were at war with each other, we could say how many cattle and sheep we captured, how many women we captured, and even how many young and strong we captured. However, generally young and strong people were not used as resources to obtain after victory in the war because they were difficult to control, so most of them were killed."

"Most wedding customs take place at dusk. We often see couples bowing to each other and entering the bridal chamber together. Naturally, they cannot enter the bridal chamber during the day, so the two words 'marry' and 'get married' should be easy to resolve."

"These two characters are related to the character for wife."

"We can tell from the literal meaning of the word 'wife'."

"It's like a hand holding the woman's hair, or like a trophy."

"Women in ancient times generally did not have a high status."

"So it's marry and wife, these two words have similar meanings."

"The word 'wife' is also the lingering sound of the word 'take'."

Zhou Yue wrote down these words one by one.

Take, marry, marry, wife.

“In fact, it’s similar to the root of English words.”

"It's just that ours is more specific, and it's older, with an orderly inheritance. It's the only civilization that has continued uninterrupted for thousands of years."

"Even when faced with foreign invasion, our civilization will gradually devour and melt other civilizations."

Everyone was feeling a surge of emotion.

From a single word, we can reflect back to ancient times, and reveal many unknown stories and records hidden in history books and ancient classics.

Countless stories can be derived from just the composition of a word.

Moreover, these stories are all interesting. Although some of them are the dregs of the time, or feudal etiquette, it is not difficult to understand some of the problems if you study and discover them.

It's like listening to a story.

An ancient painting can be depicted from a single word.

Using today's stories to reflect the scenery of ancient times is like people today having a conversation with the ancients, full of all kinds of fantasy colors.

Everyone could clearly feel Zhou Yue's love and enthusiasm for words. This was just a lecture, and not a highly professional academic lecture at that. There was nothing profound about it, and he would not even invest a lot of time just for a word.

But it makes people feel the charm that words bring to people.

In addition, Teacher Zhou tells the story in a leisurely manner and can present everything very easily, which is extremely important to them.

It's like telling a story.

It's like a game too.

"Now I finally understand why so many people are following Mr. Zhou's class. He really enjoys these things and treats them as a fun thing to do. He doesn't do these things simply for the sake of learning or academics." Principal Han sighed.

In fact, he had not originally planned to come. After all, he and Teacher Zhou were just colleagues. They didn't even have much communication. Teacher Zhou had always been in charge of the School of Architecture and would just submit the reports.

It was Principal Yang who forced him to come here, but after he came here, he felt that the trip was worthwhile.

(End of this chapter)