This is a video about the story of the oracle bone script and Chinese characters. This series of videos can enable you to understand the history of the formation of Chinese characters and the related stories behind them.
Today, let's take a look at the first Chinese character - "巳". During the oracle bone script period， this character was depicted as a creature with only a head but no limbs. In China， there is a custom for newborn babies - to wrap their limbs with cloth. Therefore， when you see this character， you can only see the baby's head and the body without hands or feet. So， the meaning of this character gradually transformed into "baby".
The meanings of the Chinese characters such as “包、妃、祀、起” are all to some extent related to "infants".
In ancient China, a day was divided into 12 periods. "巳时" was one of them. Can you guess what time it is now when Ji Shi comes? Ji Shi refers to the period from 9 to 11 a.m. in the present time. This might be the best time to feed babies.
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