晨起危坐读书,看到清人王有光《吴下谚联卷三》有“上任”一条,这样写道:“士人赴官谓之上任。将‘任’字作‘官’字解释,谬矣。任者,担也,盖将担子上在身上。” 早在一期甲骨文中即有任字:一人身旁竖着一条大扁担。左旁的“壬”就是由这条大扁担演变而来的。可见,称“赴官谓之上任”,正是道出了居官作长的第一要义,象形字的“任”字确象一个随时待命的挑夫之形,即为官即为挑夫。 提到挑夫,我们脑子里就会自 At the beginning of the morning sitting at risk reading, see the Qing Wang Youguang, “Wu under the proverbial coherence” has “take office” one, wrote: “Scholars go to the official that the office of the” Ren “as” official “word explanation, absurd Carry on any one, burden, cover the burden on the body. ”As early as a period of inscriptions in Oracle: a person next to a large pole mounted vertically. The left side of the “Wang” is from this big pole evolved. It can be seen that the “official appointment of office officials” is precisely the first sign of the long-term growth of residence officers. The “Ren” character of the pictograph is indeed the shape of a beloved husband who stands ready to serve. When it comes to porters, we think in ourselves