In modern Chinese, "book" still retains the meaning of "letter", such as "letter from home".
1, Jane
Before the invention of papermaking, people used long and narrow bamboo pieces as writing materials, which were called Jane. The bamboo pieces used to write letters are called bamboo slips.
2. Ruler letters
The thin and small wood used for writing in ancient times was called bamboo slips. When bamboo slips and slips were written together in the Han Dynasty, the width of imperial edicts was no more than 3 feet, while the width of ordinary letters was only 1 foot, so letters were called slips.
3. Cambodia
Cambodian bamboo slips commonly used in ancient times are letters, business cards and posts, such as invitations, greetings and books.
4. Elements (ruler elements)
In ancient times, white silk was called plain silk. Letters written in white silk (or silk) are called geometry, and later "geometry" became synonymous with letters.
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At first, it was a beautiful bamboo that people used to write poems or draw. General stationery is also called stationery, and later it is synonymous with letters.
6. letter
The envelope of the original letter. In ancient times, letters were sent in wooden boxes, which was called letters. Later, letters were called letters, such as letters, letters and official letters.
7. Ji Rui
In ancient times, it refers to letters and public and private documents. Nineteen and seventeen ancient poems: "Guests come from afar, leave me a letter." Small wooden slips originally used for ancient writing. The word "letter" is still widely used.
8. Hongyan
"It is said that the son of heaven shot Lin Deyan, full of silk, and the word and the martial arts are in a river." (The Biography of Hanshu Su Wu) Later, Hongyan was used instead of letters.
9.carp
Also refers to letters. This allusion comes from "the guest came from afar and left me a pair of carp." Hu Er cooks carp and there is a book in it. " (Han Yuefu's poem "Drinking Horses in Great Wall Cave"). There are several ways for carp to call letters. One is called Pisces. For example, in the Song Dynasty's "Butterfly Loves Flowers", "There is nowhere to ask if the butterfly flies, and the tall buildings are separated by water, and the Pisces are broken." The other is called "double carp". Liu Yuxi's poem "Send Cui out" says: "Acacia looks at the Huaihe River, and double carp should not be rare." Han Yu's poem "Send Lutong" also includes the poem "Send Long Bearded Carp". In Li Shangyin's poem "To Secretary Hu Ling", "Song and Shu have been away from home for a long time, and the two carp are separated by a piece of paper." Some of them are directly called "fish books", and the poem "Recalling Yu Di" by Wei Gao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty: "There is no fish book in the Yangtze River, and it is like a piano to send acacia." Because carp is often used instead of letters, the ancients often made letters into carp shapes. In the poem "Han Yuefu", there is a saying that "the ruler is like a remnant of snow, forming a pair of carp. You should know well and read the books in the curtains. "
10, letters
Letters originally refers to the mailbox of letters. After ancient letters are written, they are usually found in a bamboo tube or wooden tube and then sent out. There is a phrase in Li Bai's poem, "Peach and bamboo calligraphy, elegant writing". Later, the book tube also became synonymous with letters. "But I'm afraid there are no geese in Hengyang, and the bookcases don't disturb people." (Poems by Zhao Fan)
1 1, eight-line script
A synonym for letters. In the past, letters had eight lines per page, so they were called eight-part essays. "The slave of Meng Ling came and gave me a book. I saw the handwriting ... Although the book is two pieces of paper, the paper has eight lines and seven characters." (Biography of Dou Zhangzhuan in the Later Han Dynasty) Wen Tingyun wrote: "Eight-line script, a thousand-mile dream, flying south."
12, reservation
A letter from home is a letter from home, and a personal letter is a personal letter. "Spring Hope" poem: "After three months of war, a letter from home is worth a ton of gold".