The Meaning of Food in Chinese
Sep 6th, 2011 by Giselle
The ancient Chinese developed their writing systems from drawings symbolising certain meanings. From these drawings, words were formulated by combining them to create new more complicated words. Find out how the word ‘food’ was derived 5,000 years ago.
Video on the Meaning of Food
This is a video on the meaning of food according to the ancient Chinese 5,000 years ago; it testimony that ancient wisdom is often surprisingly timeless.


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my comment didn’t show up. Grrrr… well I’m not writing
all that over again. Anyhow, just wanted to say superb blog!