“ Listen ! That’s the sound of thunder
and lightning ! “
In its ancient form the character雷 léi makes you think of a bolt of lightning
together with thunder. The four wheels symbolise the noise made by the thunder.
In older times people thought the noise was made by the chariots of the
divinities rolling along the roads in the sky and making lots of noise. With
time, the present form was created with just one wheel and the character was
added to the radical雨Yǔ
rain since we usually
get thunder when it rains.
The character雷 léi means thunder. When we get thunder we
say 打雷Dǎléi.
The
goddess of lightening. They were gods of justice because they were thought to punish bad people.
It was said善有善報,惡有惡報
shàn yǒu shàn bào , è yǒu è bào “Good
acts lead to good things and bad acts lead to bad things“, like the expression “he who lives by the sword dies by the
sword” The result of your acts will one day have an influence on your life. All
this implies the presence of a universal law of nature which ancient people
feared and respected.
沒有留言:
張貼留言