Meat, a first-degree Chinese character, is pronounced meat (hūn), whose original meaning is the pungent, smelly vegetable of onion and garlic.

Detailed explanation: noun, form-sound. From 丱, 军声. The original meaning of the noun is "onion and garlic" (葱蒜), which is a pungent and stinky vegetable. --Shuowen (说文) Meat, pungent vegetables also. --Cangjie Chuan. Meal meat. --Yi Li, "The Rites of Meeting with the Shi".

Note: "Pungent things, the genus of onions and leeks." Meals in Jun have meat and peach sedges. --Rite of Passage-Yuzao. Note: "Ginger and pungent vegetables also." Then the meat and vegetables and a hundred vegetables to ze amount. -- "Xunzi Fu Guo" (荀子-富国). Only those who do not drink alcohol and do not eat meat for several months. --Zhuang Zi - The World on Earth. Meat and pungent, vegetables with a strong, pungent flavor. It is forbidden in Buddhism.

Meat refers to foods such as chicken, duck, fish and meat. As opposed to "vegetarian", meat and blood (fish and meat and other foods); meat and stink (meat and fishy meat. It is a metaphor for uncleanness); meat and shame (refers to pungent dishes and meat); meat and stink (refers to pungent dishes and beef and mutton).

Ancient Interpretation: Tang Rhyme, Jie Rhyme, Zheng Rhyme? Xu Yun cut, sound smoke. "Rites - Yuzao" meal in the king, there are meat and peach sedges. Note, meat, ginger and pungent vegetables. Rites of Passage - Shi met ritual" night sitting, asked the night meal meat. Note" meat, pungent substances, food to stop lying down. The jade chapter "meat leaves so the evil evil.

Later Han - rituals, the month of midsummer, the gift of Zhu Suo even meat dishes, Mimou Park compulsion bells, peach seal six inches long, three inches square, five-color book text such as the law, in order to apply the door. Xunzi - Duke of Lamentations "Zhi is not in the meat. Note" onions, scallions. "XuHyun said text note" meat, stinking lei, also known as rue Taiwan, tsubaki, leeks onions, garlic, Wei's genus, FangJuJia prohibited, said gas is not clean.

The Development of Chinese Characters

Oracle bone inscriptions were the earliest form of Chinese characters, initially inscribed on tortoise shells and animal bones, and were used to record information for rituals and divination. With the development of society, Chinese characters gradually evolved from oracle bone script to gold script and seal script. Jinwen is the script cast on bronze and Seal Script is the script written on seals, both of which are more simplified and standardized.

In order to facilitate writing and dissemination, the official script was developed during the Qin Dynasty, which was an evolution of the seal script, with more simplified strokes and standardized structure, and became the writing style for official documents. The Regular Script is a formalized form of writing Chinese characters with a standardized structure and balanced vertical and horizontal ratios. Running Script is a variation of Regular Script, with continuous and smooth strokes and rich changes.