Mooring Guazhou is a famous lyric Chinese poetry. Its author is Wang Anshi (王安石) in Song Dynasty. Wang Anshi (1021 – 1086) is famous politician, thinker, writer and poet in Northern Song Dynasty.
This poem expresses the emotion that poet misses hometown. The first two sentences narrates poet was on the way to his post, but [...]

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The Chinese characters 贱 meaning is cheap; mean; worthless.
Two spears: 戈 shattering and destroying the value of shells: 貝, once used as money, conveys the idea of cheap, worthless, mean or humble. Man applied this word to anything of little value, uttering the proverbial saying: “Cheap things are of little value; valuable things are not [...]

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The Chinese characters 贝 meaning is shells; valuables.
This Chinese character is a pictograph of the precious cowrie shell. Used in early feudal times as money, it came to mean also “valuables”. The regular form 貝 shows a live shell with feelers; but today, like the money it once represented, the shell reveals its hollowness in [...]

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The Chinese characters 姓 meaning is surname.
The Chinese character 姓, comprising 女 (woman) and 生 (born), literally means: “born of woman”. It suggests that in some remote, forgotten era man, born of woman, got his name from the mother. Hence: 姓: “surname”. We introduce here Mama Li’s (李) family from the remote past, but we’ve [...]

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The Chinese characters 生 meaning is produce; bear; grow.
The earth (土), producing a plant, lays the groundwork for growth. Hence the modified form: 生, meaning to produce, bear or grow. Man, born imperfect, grows in different ways and directions. Pictured here are examples from three generations.

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The Chinese characters 出 meaning is go out; issue; produce.
Originally, Chinese character 出 represented a stalk thrusting itself out of its receptacle - the ground - and bursting out in full bloom. This verbal Chinese character places emphasis on the action “out”. Translating this action visually, our picture shows “out” being expressed, not only in [...]

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The Chinese characters 坐 meaning is to sit; a seat.
坐, the ideogram for “sit”, depicts two men talking face-to-face, sitting on the ground (土) but not quite down-to-earth. Although the radical 土 (earth) provides the base for the men (人) to “sit” on, it can prove to be the root of unproductive activity, as illustrated.

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The Chinese characters 土 meaning is earth; soil; ground.
Man has always been dependent on the ground for subsistence. To him, earth (土) is represented by its two layers (二) — the topsoil and subsoil — from which growing plants sprout (丨). Therefore, 土: the good earth that produces all things for man. Pictured here are [...]

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The Chinese characters 走 meaning is walk; run; hasten; depart.
In the original seal form, the upper part represents a man bending his head forward to walk rapidly. The lower part means “to stop.” This combination of bending and stopping indicates walking. The movement is also suggested by the bending of the toes or foot in [...]

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The Chinese characters 是 meaning is right; yes; am, are, is.
This ideograph locates the sun: 日 over the Chinese character for right or correct: 正. It depicts the sun exactly on the meridian. The sun is here taken as the standard for correctness. Therefore, the idea of “right; yes; am, are, is”

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