Soul-reading Hun
Soul (pinyin: Hun), a first-class Chinese character (commonly used word) in the general Chinese standard? . According to the existing literature, this word was first included in Shuowen Jiezi, and its generation time was not later than the Warring States Period. The pictophonetic characters are both knowing characters, and the ancient glyph sounds like a ghost cloud, and the "cloud" is also ideographic. The original meaning refers to "soul", which in legends or superstitions refers to the spirit attached to the human body and can exist independently without the body.
it also refers to people's spirit or emotions, such as: shock, loss of soul; The word "soul" refers to the lofty spirit of a country and a nation, such as soul of china, loyal soul and national soul. The word "soul" also refers to the personification spirit of things, such as poetry soul, flower soul and mountain soul.
according to the existing literature, the word "soul" is not found in the inscriptions on inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells. "Soul" is composed of "ghost" and "cloud", and the early glyph is not fixed. The small seal glyph is drawn as 1, making a left "cloud" and a right "ghost"; Some glyphs are right "cloud" and left "ghost", but most of them are the same as Xiao Zhuan. Soul characters are used in the documents of the Warring States period, and there must be soul characters at that time, but they are not found in the inscriptions on bronze and documents of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Their characters should have been produced in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. ?
the word "soul" is a pictophonetic and ideographic word. The glyph is from ghost, and "ghost" is like a kneeling ghost in Oracle Bone Inscriptions to show the spirit of people leaving the body; The sound of clouds, indicating pronunciation, also has ideographic function. Clouds rise like clouds and have the meaning of floating and wandering, indicating that a soul without a trace is floating like clouds. The original meaning of the word "soul" is a kind of spirit or essence attached to the body. When people live, there is a soul, and when they die, the soul rises to the sky. This is just an ancient concept, not an objective object, but this concept came into being very early.
In Shuo Wen Jie Zi, it is said that "ghosts are evil with yin", which means that "ghosts" are evil with yin, while Shuo Wen Jie Zi says that "soul" is "yang". Thus, although "soul" is related to "ghost", it is completely different from "ghost" in nature. According to China's theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements, they exist in different time and space.
China's ancient ancestors believed that "life begins to be called spirit, which means life is born, and yang is called soul." It means that when a person is born, he first becomes "spirit", and the possession of yang is called "soul". Only when the "soul" as "yang" is possessed, can a person live, while the "soul" will die without him. From this point of view, the premise of human life is that the "soul" is attached to the body. ?
Because "soul" is separated from human body, it is a part of people's spiritual consciousness, so "soul" can be extended to mean "spirit and consciousness", such as "…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… In addition, the "soul" is also specially used to express some noble spiritual realm, such as Hongyan soul, Chinese soul, national soul, soul of china and so on.