They often modify the letters.
I believe that the power of the Great Nature appears in shapes of the things.
You can interpret the "Great Nature" to be "God".
The shape of the trees has deep meaning.
The shape of human organs has its reason to be so to conclude its task.
The shape of the vocal organs is the greatness of the Nature. Sound is just a result of it.
Letters of our language (Chinese and Japanese) are pictograph.
It was created from the forms and shapes of the things.
Today, I'd like to demonstrate how the letter "愛" - LOVE- was formed.
I took "Love" as an example today, because this is the only letter among the Chinese letters that I am convinced to be "correct" even when it is modified in Modern Chinese way.
In modern China, they write "愛" -LOVE-, as follows, please forgive my bad hand writing. After all I am not a calligrapher.
This is how they write love.
Let me explain you about this fascinating world of Chinese letters dividing the letter in three parts.
The original letter for LOVE "愛" has three parts, head, body, and legs.
The modified letter, on the other hand, has only two parts, coalescing the body and legs together.
The letter representing the body and legs of the original letter is a letter "友" stands for "friends".
Let me, first of all explain the contents of the original letter. There you will see what LOVE is for asian people.
Head, Body and Legs for LOVE
<Head>
The Head part of the letter "愛" is this
this was formed from
a person, tuning its head.
Turning head is symbol of "paying attention."
<Body>
The body part of the letter "愛" is this
This is a letter stands for "Heart"
It was formed from the shape of the heart itself.
<Legs>
The leg part of the letter "愛" is letter stands for "Reaching"- "及"
But I need to decompose this letter.
It was formed from 2 things.
A human and a hand.
This is how the letter for human "人" was formed.
It is a standing man looking from side way.
The "Reaching" 及 was formed from the scene that a hand reaching to a human.
LOVE
愛
LOVE
one that you pay attention and your heart reaches.
Friends
Seeing this, the letter for friends "友" is a letter that the letter HEART "心" and the letter REACHING "及" put together.
Originally the letter friend "友" was formed from 2 hands side by side.
But it could be also said, seeing the fact it was used as a shortened form for "Heart" and "Reaching",
Friends are the people that their heart reach to each other.
The letter LOVE as
reaches my heart more, because it shows the idea that Love contains Friendship.
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