Xi, pinyin X:, the word first appeared in Shang Dynasty Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Shang Dynasty inscriptions. Its ancient glyph is like a bird's nest. Its original meaning means that birds live in the nest, and this meaning is later written as "habitat". When the sun goes down, birds return to their nests, so the west is used to indicate the direction of sunset.
It also refers to the west, and it also refers to the content and form belonging to the west. During the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the West refers to the ocean and coastal areas west of the South China Sea in China, and after the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, it refers to the two sides of the Atlantic Ocean, that is, European and American countries.
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The interpretation of the words is:
1, Western Regions: ancient regional names. Since the Han Dynasty, the western regions in a narrow sense refer to Yumenguan, the west of Yangguan, the east of Congling, the east and south of Balkhash Lake and the vast areas of Xinjiang. The western regions in a broad sense refer to all the regions that can be reached in a narrow sense, including Central Asia and West Asia.
2. Western Liaoning: refers to the area west of Liaohe River, western Liaoning Province and north of Shanhaiguan in Hebei Province. There were counties from the Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties to the Southern and Northern Dynasties. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC) (1949), the province was established, and the rest areas merged with Liaodong Province to re-establish Liaoning Province.
3. Western learning: In the late Qing Dynasty, China was called the natural science and social science in Europe and America. The concept of "western learning" is a product of history. It first refers to the theory that originated in the West and spread to China. The so-called "western learning" not only refers to "western learning", but should be understood as "the western learning of China people".
4. Western medicine: compared with traditional Chinese medicine, it refers to drugs used in modern medicine, which are generally made by chemical synthesis or extracted from natural products; Include aspirin, penicillin, painkillers, etc. Western medicine is organic chemicals, inorganic chemicals and biological products. Look at the instructions, there are chemical names and structural formulas, and the dosage is more accurate than that of traditional Chinese medicine, generally in milligrams.
5. West China: broadly speaking, it refers to the western part of China, including northwest, southwest and east, and the western part includes Xinjiang, western Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Tibet, Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan and Guangxi. In a narrow sense, Huaxi refers to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in China and southern Shaanxi.