1, month, with radical "month", four strokes. In Chinese characters, it is usually used as a synonym for time and bright moon. According to the records of ancient books such as Shuo Wen Jie Zi, the history and meaning of the word Yue are very rich. Shuowen Jiezi is a 540-part book compiled by Xu Shen in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which is the basic material for studying Chinese characters.
2. Regarding the "month" department, Xu Shen explained that "the month is also lacking. The essence of lunar yin. Start with two meats. " Here "lunar" refers to the moon, and "Rou Er" refers to the circular outline of the moon, which vividly shows the shape of the moon. The shape of the word "moon" in Shuo Wen Jie Zi is "meat", which was not found in the word books before Han Dynasty.
The original meaning of the word "meat" is the outline of the lung. Because the shape of the moon looks like the outline of the lungs, the symbol of the word "moon" is given the meaning of "meat". The word "moon" also has rich cultural meanings. In the ancient culture of China, the moon was often endowed with many symbolic meanings, among which reunion and missing were the most obvious.
In the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon is regarded as a symbol of reunion. People will watch the bright moon at night and look forward to family reunion. In addition, the moon is also a symbol of missing, and many poets have expressed their feelings of missing relatives and friends far away in their poems. "Moon" is also one of the five elements in China traditional culture, representing the West.
5. In the ancient theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements, among the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, Jin Kemu, wood, earth, earth, water, fire and gold. Therefore, the "Moon" in the five elements corresponds to the West and represents the Lord God of Qiu Qiu.
The origin of the moon
1, split theory. The moon was once a part of the earth. Because the earth rotates too fast, some substances are thrown out to form the moon. But this theory has been widely questioned, because the rotation speed of the earth can't throw such a big object out of the earth.
2. Capture theory. The moon was originally just an asteroid in the solar system, because it ran near the earth, was captured by the gravity of the earth, and became a satellite of the earth. However, this theory has also been questioned. It is believed that a planet as big as the moon (27.25% of the diameter of the earth) can't be captured by the earth.
3. Homologous. Both the earth and the moon are floating nebulae (plasma, dust or elementary particles) in the solar system, which rotate and accrete at the same time to form stars. This statement is currently accepted by most scholars.