{"id":6976,"date":"2021-04-05T11:06:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T03:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/?p=6976"},"modified":"2022-05-23T22:36:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T14:36:15","slug":"chinese-poem-illustration-%e5%94%90%e9%a3%8e-%e6%a4%92%e8%81%8a-%e4%bd%9a%e5%90%8d-pepper-means-fertility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/?p=6976","title":{"rendered":"Chinese poem illustration\/\u5510\u98ce \u6912\u804a\/\u4f5a\u540d  Pepper means fertility?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Chinese poem illustration: \u5510\u98ce \u6912\u804a\/ Tang Wind &#8211; Burning Pepper by Anonymous<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chinese poem illustration\/\u5510\u98ce \u6912\u804a\/\u4f5a\u540d  Pepper means fertility?\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z7ScL5T--bc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>\u5510\u98ce \u6912\u804a<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Full video also available at Bilibili: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bilibili.com\/video\/BV1N64y1S71E\/\">\u5510\u98ce \u6912\u804a<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pic.imgdb.cn\/item\/606a7f4f8322e6675c30fc93.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"170\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This influencial poem connected the Sichuan pepper(\u82b1\u6912) with fertility which was valued by Chinese through the history. While the connection with fertility only appeared since Han dynasty which is some 800-1000 years after this poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By digging into the characters \u804a, \u5347 and \u4e14(ju1), a new interpretation is developed: another condolence poem about a grand ceremony to ancestors, burning pepper is one of the sacrifice. After this video, I also found out the original form of character \u8543 is not with the grass radical, but rather a up flow of air radical, which means burning meat or pepper to let the smell and smoke going up, its descendant character might be \u71d4. The original writing is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdic.net\/hans\/%E8%95%83\">https:\/\/www.zdic.net\/hans\/%E8%95%83<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May 2022 note: \u6912\u804a is a phonetic loan word of \u6912\u71ce which means burning the pepper, a special ritual to ancestors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>\u5510\u98ce \u6912\u804a<br \/>\u4f5a\u540d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>\u6912\u804a\u4e4b\u5b9e\uff0c\u8543\u884d\u76c8\u5347\u3002<br \/>\u5f7c\u5176\u4e4b\u5b50\uff0c\u7855\u5927\u65e0\u670b\u3002<br \/>\u6912\u804a\u4e14\uff0c\u8fdc\u6761\u4e14\u3002<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>\u6912\u804a\u4e4b\u5b9e\uff0c\u8543\u884d\u76c8\u530a\u3002<br \/>\u5f7c\u5176\u4e4b\u5b50\uff0c\u7855\u5927\u4e14\u7b03\u3002<br \/>\u6912\u804a\u4e14\uff0c\u8fdc\u6761\u4e14\u3002<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese poem illustration: \u5510\u98ce \u6912\u804a\/ Tang Wind &#8211; Burning Pepper by Anonymous Full video also available at Bilibili: \u5510\u98ce \u6912\u804a This influencial poem connected the Sichuan pepper(\u82b1\u6912) with fertility which was valued<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/?p=6976\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4691,705,558,973],"tags":[3931,3925,3934,3930,3929,1020,3933,3923,3924,3846,3926,3928,3932,3927],"class_list":["post-6976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-songs","category-705","category-history-2","category-973","tag-3931","tag-3925","tag-3934","tag-3930","tag-3929","tag-fanmandarin","tag-jiao-liao","tag-pepper","tag-sichuan-pepper","tag-tang-wind","tag-3926","tag-3928","tag-3932","tag-3927"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6976"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8450,"href":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976\/revisions\/8450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}