The origin of the words cow , sheep , horse .

a) "Cow", "sheep", "horse" are all pictographs. According to the explanation of "Shuowen Jie Zi":

1. Cattle: big animals. Elephant horn head.

Meaning: Cattle are large animals. Like glyphs, like the head of a cow and two horns.

2. Sheep: elephant head, horns, feet and tails. Confucius said: "The zigzag of cattle and sheep is also lifted in the form of a shape." ”

Meaning: sheep is a pictograph, like a sheep's head, horns, feet, and tail. Confucius said, "The characters for ox and sheep are made according to their shapes." ”

3. Horse: like the shape of a horse's head and tail and four legs.

Meaning: Horse is also a hieroglyph, and the shape is made up of the horse's head, mane, tail, and four legs.

2) The origin of "book", "dictionary" and "deletion":

1. Book: Like its notebook, one long and one short, there are two parts.

Meaning: book, pictograph, like many long and short bamboo slips, in the middle of which there are two ropes that weave bamboo pieces together.

2. Classics: The Book of the Five Emperors. The book is on the top, and the pavilion is also.

Meaning: Dian, refers to the canon left by the five emperors of the previous dynasty. The pictographs, like a book made of bamboo slips, are placed on the table, indicating the meaning of resting respectfully on them.

3. Delete: Huiyi word, from the book from the knife, which means to use a knife to cut off some words on the top of the booklet, constituting the deleted "delete" word.

It can be seen from the above that in the six characters "cow", "sheep", "horse", "book", "dictionary" and "delete", the first five characters are pictographs, and the last word "delete" is a huiyi word.

Cow, sheep, and horse are all hieroglyphs.

Explanation of oxen and horses-beasts of burden

The parable of the man who does hard labor explains in detail (1).Cattle and horses. "Zhou Li, Xia Guan, Zhi Fang's Clan" :

Its livestock is suitable for cattle and horses, and its grain is suitable for millet and millet. Tang Dufu's poem "Rain": "The cows and horses are colorless, and the dragons can't open."

2).A metaphor for a person who is in labor or servitude. Qing Pu Songling, "Liao Zhai Zhi Wei Tricks":

If you are not in the same alley, you will be given a hundred gold rewards, and you will not be willing to follow the cattle and horses. Qing Qiujin's "Warning to the Sisters": Tears are often dripping, and life is done in stuttering

A prisoner of a lifetime, a half-life cow and horse. Cao Yu, "Pekingese" Act III: "For the sake of your daughter, I will be a cow and horse again!"

3).It is a metaphor for being enslaved and toiling. Zou Taofen "Ping's Message" 25:

This group of Qingtian people do the work of cattle and horses, and live an inhuman life that is inferior to dogs and horses. ”

Word decomposition Explanation of cow cow ú mammal, with hooves at the end of the toes, a pair of horns on the head, is a ruminant, very powerful, can plough the field and pull a cart, meat and milk are edible, horns, skin, and bones can be used as utensils: the cow knife test (Yu has a great ability, first in the small things to show a rot). Bezoar.

Horns. Star name, Twenty-Eight Residences: Niu Dou (refers to the explanation of the horse horse (horse) ǎ mammal, with a mane on the neck, hair on the tail, strong limbs, good at running, for people to ride or pull things:

Horses. Steed. Horse to success .

The horse's head is to look forward (metaphor follows others to act). Big: Hornet.

Ladle. Surname. Radical : Horse.

In a certain period of ancient writing, the seal script was the mainstay, and the characters of cow, sheep and horse were written in large seals.