Amazing Chinese Characters (730) Ancestor - 祖

The bronze script of character Ancestor is

The left is character Display (Post 329), the right is character Moreover. The ancient Chinese worship male genital, which indicates ancestor.

According to Mr. Wu Zheng, the character 且 is ancient hoe, which I partially agree. Therefore, we may say that our ancestor was people who used hoe, implying that they were farmers.

The big seal script of character Ancestor is

Similar to shell bone script except the left part has a dot on the top.

The small seal script of character Ancestor is

Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character 

Left is the Radical Display, the right is character Moreover.

The Pinyin of the character is Zu3.