What are the names of letters in China?

1. Books:

A home letter is a home letter, and a handwritten letter is a personal letter.

Source: Spring Hope: "after the war-fires of three months, one message from home is worth a ton of gold".

Author: Du Fu

Dynasty: Tang Dynasty

Vernacular interpretation: The continuous war has lasted for more than half a year, and letters from home are rare, and one letter is worth ten thousand taels of gold.

second, letters:

a big letter is an important letter, and a gift letter is a gift letter.

Source: Nineteen Ancient Poems: "The guest came from afar and left me a letter".

Author: Anonymous

Dynasty: Han Dynasty

Vernacular interpretation: A guest came from far away and brought me a letter.

3. Letters:

Even if a memo is a letter, an official letter is an official letter, and correspondence means teaching by letter.

fourth, the size element:

that is, the silk book, write a letter with a foot-long white silk.

source: the poem "drinking horses in the Great Wall Cave" says: "Huer cooks carp, and there is a book in it." .

Author: Anonymous

Dynasty: Han Dynasty

Vernacular interpretation: Call the boy servant to open the wooden box, which contains a long letter written in plain silk with a ruler.

V. Hongyan:

The source of Hanshu: "The son of heaven shot the geese in the forest, which is full of silk scripts, and the words and martial arts are in a certain river."

Author: Ban Gu

Dynasty: Han Dynasty

Vernacular interpretation: The son of heaven shot a wild goose in Shanglin Garden, and it said that Su Wu and others were in Beihai.