2024-02-15 07:37:00
Why is the Chinese character “dragon” written like this: From simple to traditional and then to simple The earliest dragon character originally looked like this
Kuai Technology reported on February 15 that the Lunar New Year is the Year of the Dragon. The character dragon first appeared in oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty. Its ancient character resembles a flying dragon.
From the word “dragon” in oracle bone inscriptions to today’s Chinese character “dragon”, what kind of evolution has this character experienced?
The dragon in the oracle bone inscriptions has a majestic head and horns, and the dragon’s whiskers are flying, as if rising into the sky, which is exactly the image of a flying dragon in people’s imagination. Subsequently, the evolution of the word “dragon” went through the development process of “from simple to complex” and “from complex to simple”, and finally took shape.
The character “dragon” in oracle bone inscriptions has different glyphs in the early and late periods.In its early days, there were two types of oracle bone inscriptions:。The prototypes of the earlier oracle bone inscriptions A and B have not yet been determined, but it is conjectured that they are depictions of the “real” state of the dragon.。
The later oracle bone inscriptions (Figures 1 and 2) have a greatly simplified shape, with the dragon’s body becoming thinner and an ornament with the word “Xin” on its head.
The shapes of bronze inscriptions and oracle bone inscriptions are similar, except that there are more fangs in the shape of the dragon’s mouth.
The Warring States period characters (Pictures 5 and 6) and Xiaozhuan (Picture 7) changed significantly and became more complicated. They were divided into two parts: the left and right parts. The part of oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions that resembled a dragon’s head and mouth was changed to “moon”, that is, “moon”. Meat”, with the added parts on the right. Angle is still represented by the word “Xin”.
The glyphs of Han Li (Figure 8) are based on Xiaozhuan and are made into cubes.，Becomes the traditional Chinese character “dragon”. In the common characters after the Sui Dynasty, “dragon” was written as “娨”, which was modified according to the right radical of the original character. Three strokes can also be written as two strokes.
The “General List of Simplified Characters” further shortens it to one stroke and shortens it to dragon.
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