In ancient Chinese, "interest-bearing" is actually a joint phrase composed of two synonyms, not a word, because in ancient Chinese, except for people's names, place names and a few monosyllabic words like "grape and prostrate", almost all of them are monosyllabic words-that is, a word is a word. Knowing this, it is not difficult to understand the meaning of "living" and even "recuperating".

The word "interest-bearing" is two synonyms, because in ancient times, when "life" and "interest" were put together, they all meant "multiply and live". Among them, "life" has many meanings, but here it means "growth, growth and fertility"; "Rest" here also means "growth and reproduction". For example, in ancient myths and legends, Yu's father Gun stole "rest land" from the Emperor of Heaven to stop the flood. "Rest soil" is the soil that can grow endlessly.

Similarly, "rest" must be broken down into four words to be accurately understood: rest, rest; Raising and breastfeeding; Birth, childbirth; Rest and multiply. It is absolutely wrong for modern people to understand "living" as "living and resting".

By analogy, the words "housing, gathering, teaching and training" in Gou Jian's "Ten Years of Gathering, Ten Years of Classes" also mean "breeding population, collecting materials and educating and training" respectively.

The above is the correct explanation of the word "interest bearing" which is most likely to cause ambiguity. As for its other meaning, such as life, loan interest, etc. One is extended meaning and the other is easy to understand, so I won't go into details here.