Radical of sacrificial words

The root of an animal is a cow. The combination of animals includes animals, domestic animals and animals.

1. Livestock: refers to livestock used for farming, transportation and traction, such as cattle, sheep, horses and mules. These animals have been used for long-term reproduction and domestication by human beings and become an important source of human life and agricultural production.

2. Livestock: generally refers to livestock used as food and production tools. Similar to the word "livestock", but the literal meaning is wider, including cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, mules and so on.

3. Sacrifice: refers to cattle, sheep, tapirs, etc. Slaughtered during ancient sacrifices. In ancient times, Eid al-Adha was a religious ceremony to sacrifice livestock and was regarded as a blessing to the gods. Sacrifice is an important part of it, which generally refers to the highest sacrifice (such as offering sacrifices to heaven) or some special rituals (such as amenorrhea).

The original meaning of "sacrifice" is "whole cow for sacrifice" and "life" beside the sound. Because the shapes of animals and animals in Oracle Bone Inscriptions are often interchangeable, the earliest glyph comes from "sheep"; After the bronze inscription, it was fixed as "cow". In ancient times, it was used to refer to all kinds of livestock, and later it was used to refer to all kinds of sacrificial and edible livestock.

The origin of sacrifice

The original meaning of the word "sacrifice" is cattle and sheep slaughtered in ancient times. According to Shuo Wen Jie Zi, sacrifice, also called "grazing" or "sacrifice", was a sacrifice that the ancients had to slaughter when offering sacrifices to the gods of heaven and earth.