Friday, June 5th, 2026, 20th day of the fourth lunar month, Mangzhong today

Words.

Three thousand words fell straight in front of me, and my chest was completely devoid of dust.

——Ming Yu Qian's "Reading Books"

Ancestral Creation“character”When,Draw a scene like this——Above isA house that provides shelter from wind and rain(She)，Below isA baby in swaddling clothes(Child)The two parts together vividly depict the scene of giving birth and raising newborns indoors,“character”The original meaning is reproduction and nurturing.

Shuowen Jieziexplain：“Words, milk. Congzi is under the ear.”“milk”isChildbirth, breastfeeding, and nurturing.butWhat Xu Shen saw was not just raising children in the house, but also the nurturing of civilization.

《Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters·narrate"); box-sizing: border-box !important; overflow-wrap: break-word !important;"> How to translate middle：“At the beginning of Cangjie's writing, he wrote books based on pictographic symbols, hence it is called literature. Literature is the foundation of objects. The combination of form and sound is called a character. Words are abundant and diverse.”When Cangjie created characters,“Classified pictograms"); box-sizing: border-box !important; overflow-wrap: break-word !important;">”It is called literature, like the sprouting of plants and trees;“Sound and form benefit each other”The word 'zhi' is like branches, leaves, and vines. Chinese characters are not cold symbols, but rather generationsbreedThe living organism.Using a picture of reproductive nurturing as an analogy to the self reproduction of symbols：one“woman”Word addition“child”become“good”, two“wood”And stand together“Lin”……Every combination is a childbirth, and every extension is a continuation of the bloodline.

“character”It is creation, the courage to grow another life from one life. We are still here today“character”Writing, transmitting, and creating characters, every stroke is a new one“fertility”.

May your life be as“character”Under the eaves of time, it constantly extends and reproduces more new possibilities.