Chinese characters are creatures.
Chinese characters have their origin, evolution and lifestyle, and cannot be changed at will. From Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, official script to regular script, China's characters have experienced a long life and become the easiest to write and recognize.
For example, the word "horse" originally appeared in the form of pictograms, but it is impossible to draw the appearance of "horse" every time you write it. However, the ancients tried their best to convey the meaning of words. After thousands of years of simplification, the characters have naturally become stereotyped and become a style with profound meaning. This is like a living individual, absorbing the essence of ancient culture and evolving into a universal appearance.
Someone once compared traditional Chinese characters with simplified Chinese characters, and found that although traditional Chinese characters have many strokes and are difficult to write, they are highly recognizable and can understand the meaning from a distance. Although simplified Chinese characters have few strokes, it is not easy to understand the meaning of words after entering the eye. On the contrary, it takes more time to interpret them, which has caused obstacles and inconveniences, and it is just the old saying that "haste makes waste".
Because hieroglyphics are not like pinyin, they will lose their pronunciation and pronunciation because of the evolution of the times, resulting in the problem that ancient and modern texts and meanings are unreasonable; Therefore, Chinese characters are endowed with unique advantages, and their meanings can be preserved for thousands of years. Among the three ancient Chinese characters in the world, Babylonian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphics (sacred characters) once shone brilliantly on the historical stage, but now they have entered museums one after another and can only be mourned by future generations. Only the Chinese characters of the Chinese nation, after more than 3,000 years of wind and rain, are now striding towards the world stage with the majestic posture of being old and strong!
Chinese characters are handed down from God.
China people, more or less, have the traditional feeling of "only reading is high". Such a profound cultural admiration is not born out of thin air.
Just like Prometheus falling from the sky and stealing fire in Greek mythology, there are also records in ancient times that "Cang Jie made words, it rained millet, and ghosts cried at night". Legend has it that Cang Xie was a historian of the Yellow Emperor. He has four eyes and seems to see different levels and deeper meanings of things. He is a demigod. It is said that writing was brought to the world from heaven by Cang Xie. Cang Xie sent a message on earth, and God was happy and blessed, and millet was dropped to show the celebration of the world; The evil monster knows that human beings have words and wisdom, and can no longer fool and manipulate human beings. They were jealous and sad, and cried all night! Words inspire wisdom, can the devil not be afraid?
Despite these myths, Chinese characters do have profound and magical connotations. For example, the word "person", the word "person" in regular script, and Oracle Bone Inscriptions three thousand years ago are all simple two paintings, and there is no change. It's just that Oracle Bone Inscriptions looks like a real person: hands hanging over his chest, bent over. This shows China's "philosophy of life".
People are the most complicated, and even painters will lament that it is easier to draw ghosts than people. Everything in the world is really complicated, but is life really that complicated? Two simple paintings, isn't life? No matter how complicated the problem is, isn't it easier to bend over and give gifts? From these two simple paintings, we may be able to realize and understand more hidden truths, but what can we see from "people"? I'm afraid I can't see anything with an electron microscope!
Extensive and profound Chinese characters.
He and Lin Shanben's speech on Chinese characters explained the preciousness and significance of Chinese characters in a simple way with vivid and interesting stories and examples. Chinese characters are the only ideographic characters nowadays, and each painting contains rich information, which integrates the social development, economic activities and cultural trends of thought at that time into the meaning of fonts. No wonder researchers have the sigh that "Chinese characters are museums"!
China's Chinese characters are a bridge between China culture and exquisite artworks. As a native of Taiwan Province Province, how lucky I am to inherit the traditional writing form of Chinese characters in China. Such a precious cultural treasure, we look forward to the participation of people with lofty ideals who care about culture and education, and jointly understand the beauty of Chinese characters. Walking into Chinese characters is like walking into a museum of China culture, which is enough to make people admire and linger! /bbs/showthread.asp？ postid= 1578
There is a legend about the origin of Chinese characters. China ancient books all say that Chinese characters were created by Cang Xie. It is said that Cang Xie saw a strange-looking god, and the cave looked like a painted picture. Cang Xie painted his own image and created words. Some ancient books say that after Cang Xie created the characters, he let the cat out of the bag, the sky fell, and ghosts and gods cried every night. There is also a legend that Cang Xie observed the footprints of birds and animals printed on the mud, which aroused his paranormal feeling of reading ci. This rumor is not reliable. Writing is the need of the broad masses of people to live realistically, and it has been gradually enriched and developed after a long period of social practice.
1autumn of 954 to1summer of 957, ancient laborers in China excavated Banpo site (now north of banpo village, the eastern suburb of Xi city) for many times, and found that as early as 6,000 years ago, people in the left and right Banpo created illegal symbols, paintings, sculptures and decorations with literary nature in their long-term life and production practice. The carved symbols of Banpo people are mostly left on painted pottery, which can be regarded as original Chinese characters.
In recent years, a number of tombs and tombs (more than 4,500 years ago) have been found in a site in the late Dawenkou culture of Lingyang River in Juxian County, Shandong Province, and a large number of cultural relics have been unearthed. Some ceramic statues are each engraved with a graphic character, and more than one single character 10 has been found. These characters are drawn according to the shape of objects, so they are called "hieroglyphics". The structure of characters is similar to hieroglyphics in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, but it predates Oracle Bone Inscriptions by 1000 years. So "Pictograph" is the earliest written language in China, which has the characteristics of written language.
There are three forms of Chinese characters:
method of images
This is the earliest way to form Chinese characters, creating the most primitive characters, such as "day", "month", "water" and "cow". After gradual evolution, these hieroglyphics all changed the form of the original characters and later became regular characters. Some strokes have been reduced, and some strokes have been added, from irregular characters to regular characters.
Default method
Compared with hieroglyphics, pictographs are easier to see the principle of word-making, but they cannot express the idea of drawing. The ancients created another word-formation method-the method of knowing meaning. It is to use different symbols or "hieroglyphics" plus some symbols to express the idea of drawing an image. Example: Write the word "bright", which means that "day" and "month" bring light and brightness. The word "Dan" is written as (meaning that the sun rises on the horizon.
Shape-sound method
Both pictographic characters and cognitive characters can see the meaning of words from their shapes, but they can't read the sound. Therefore, the pictophonetic method was created to create Chinese characters. Match sounds representing sounds with meanings representing shapes to form many new words. Example: the word "dad" is a combination of the phonetic word "ba" and the phenotypic word "father"; The word "Ba" is a combination of "Ba" and "++". There are more and more such figures. On the whole, pictophonetic characters account for 90% of Chinese characters. The formation and development of Chinese characters have become an important tool for people to think about each other and meet the needs of human society.
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Chinese is the most populous language in the world, but it is not the most widely used language in the world. There are many reasons, one of which is the difficulty in learning Chinese, which is also related to China's comprehensive national strength. With the continuous improvement of China's international status, many people are very curious about China's long-standing culture and want to know about it. But as soon as they set foot on the threshold of Chinese, they began to stagger.
Is Chinese so difficult? The answer is yes. The tone of Chinese alone makes beginners make a lot of jokes and embarrassing things. The tones of Chinese characters are full of melody. The four words "Tong, Tong, Tong and Pain" have the same pronunciation except the tone, so they are melodious to read. But if the pronunciation is not correct, it is wrong. There is a story: a foreigner came to study in China. Because it was very cold, he went to the store and bought a quilt. He went to the shop and asked the waiter, "Do you sell cups (quilts) here?" So the waiter took a cup and asked him, "Is this ok?" Knowing that the waiter heard me wrong, he said, "I want a cup (quilt), not a cup." The waiter looked at him doubtfully, and only after shaking did he know that he wanted a quilt. Foreigners know that the waiter heard wrong. He told the waiter again that he didn't know that his pronunciation was not accurate. This story tells us that the tone of Chinese is not only melodious, but also the pronunciation should be standardized when learning, otherwise it will bring misunderstanding to others and inconvenience to life.
Chinese characters have a long history and most of them are square. Each square character has its own parts, and the written characters are different with different parts. This requires us to be serious when writing Chinese characters.
There is a young man who likes the girl who lives opposite his house very much. He watches the girl's every move from the balcony every day. Finally one day, he got up the courage to write a love letter to the girl. The beginning of the letter reads, "Because of this, you have a desire that I can't get or enjoy." The young man took "Yin Zhi" as "Yin Zhi". Although they are similar in shape and easily confused, their meanings are different. "Qi" means quiet and steady, and "Qi" means fierce and cruel. Although these two words are similar in form, their contexts and meanings are completely different. So when writing Chinese characters, you can write them accurately, quickly and beautifully according to the rules of stroke order.
Chinese characters have different meanings in different environments, which will make sentences have two understandings. During the reign of Qianlong, Qianlong visited a town in the south and saw a couplet, "2345,6789", which was marked as "East, West, North and South" respectively. He immediately sent someone to deliver food and clothes to the family. Why did Gan Long give this family something after reading the couplets? It turns out that one and ten couplets are missing. It means lack of clothes and food, and it is lack of these things. Things also have the meaning of direction and object, but the "thing" in this couplet can only be an object. Therefore, this is also a headache for foreigners. Why does a word change its meaning in different contexts, but not in English? This is also the reason why Chinese characters can express artistic conception more clearly.
China has a profound culture and a long history. In the final analysis, it is the credit of the Chinese. Let Chinese become a bridge to communicate with people all over the world, and let it exert its charming charm in life.
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