Who knows the origin of Chinese characters, who knows the origin of Chinese characters?

Exploring the mystery of the origin and origin of Chinese characters.

Chinese characters have a long history, they were created about 4,000 years ago. There are many kinds of Chinese characters, such as: oracle bone script, golden script, small seal, cursive script, line script, regular script and other ......In addition, Chinese characters are used in the world, and they are considered to be the world's most common characters.

I see, Japan, South Korea and many other countries have learned some Chinese characters from our country to invent them. However, more and more people are learning kanji. Chinese characters are so famous, let alone Chinese calligraphy works.

For example, Wang Xizhi's calligraphy work "Orchid Pavilion Preface" and Liu Gongquan's "Mysterious Tower Tablet" are both internationally famous!!

I think, you may ask, how did Chinese characters come from? Hehe, let me tell you!! It turned out to be a character made by Cangjie, because there were many people at that time, and they had to fight often, so it was difficult to deal with the method of using knotted ropes to record things and carving wood as the number.

One night there was a heavy snowfall, Cangjie got up early in the morning and went to the mountains to hunt, only to see that the mountains were covered with snow, and the mountains and rivers and trees were all covered with heavy snow. Cangjie turned a mountain, but did not see a single prey. Just as he was about to go down the mountain, two pheasants suddenly came out of the woods and foraged for food in the snow.

After the pheasant walked by, it left two long rows of paw prints on the snow. Then, two more fawns also ran out of the woods, and when they found the man, they ran away, leaving their hoof prints on the snow. Cangjie could see that he had forgotten all about hunting.

He compared the paw prints of the pheasant with the hoof prints of the fawn and found that the shape was different. So he thought that if he drew the chicken paw print, he would call it a chicken, and if he drew the deer hoof print, he would call it a deer. Anything in the world, as long as it is drawn in pictograms, doesn't it become a word!

Since then, Cangjie has looked up at the sun, moon and stars every day, looked down on birds, beasts, mountains and rivers, and created hieroglyphs. Soon, the words man, hand, sun, moon, star, ox, sheep, horse, rooster, and dog were created.

Cangjie was inspired to invent Chinese characters when he saw the footprints of birds.

The origin of Chinese characters.

From the ancient legend of Cangjie to the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions more than 100 years ago, generations of Chinese scholars have been working to unravel the mystery of the origin of Chinese characters.

Regarding the origin of Chinese characters, there are various sayings in ancient Chinese literature, such as "knotted rope", "gossip", "pictures", "book deeds", etc., and the legend of the Yellow Emperor's historian Cangjie making characters is also widely recorded in ancient books. Modern scholars believe that a systematic writing tool cannot be created entirely by a single person, and that Cangjie, if there is one, should be the compiler or promulgator of the text.

With language, human beings can accumulate knowledge and form culture. With writing, it is possible to record language and communicate information. Language distinguishes people from animals, and writing distinguishes the primitive stage of human society from the stage of civilization.

Writing breaks the limitations of language in time and space, transmits language to distant places, and expands the communicative function of language.

The earliest surviving Chinese character oracle bone inscription was produced in the Yin Shang period, which has a history of about 3,400 years. It is already a kind of script with a relatively strict system. The Yinxu culture of Xiaotun can be determined to be a highly developed civilization only from its fairly developed smelting technology and artistic ornaments on copperware, pottery and jade.

We can completely speculate that the era of oracle bone inscriptions may not be at the crossroads of the Chinese nation from ignorance to civilization.

Chinese characters must have had a long way to go before they entered the oracle bone inscriptions. However, further along the oracle bone inscriptions, we can see that the earliest documentary record of the origin of Chinese characters comes from the Zhou and Qin dynasties'Classics, and most of them are legends, and some are also mythical. Although myths and legends have the historical background and roots of their origin, they are a refracted reflection of certain historical realities.

However, these legends are not an exhaustive depiction of the historical aspects of the origin of Chinese characters, and they can only infer the situation before and after the origin of Chinese characters and the general time of the origin of Chinese characters. The cultural relics and documents that can confirm the historical appearance of Chinese characters are not systematic and sufficient, so the origin of Chinese characters can only be based on incoherent historical evidence and speculation according to the logic of development, and establish scientific hypotheses.

Chinese characters originated from the ancient oracle bone inscription and gold script, and are the unique writing system of the Chinese nation.

The origin and development of Chinese characters

Chinese characters first originated from the pre-era oracle bone inscription, also known as bone inscription. These characters are carved on turtle bones and animal bones, and are mainly used for divination or to record sacrifices and historical events.

With the development of society, the Qin State introduced a simplified script, the small seal, after the unification of China. The small seal is the product of simplification and standardization of bone inscriptions, and after more than 1,000 years of evolution, it has formed two forms of writing, traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters used today.

Features and advantages of Chinese characters

Chinese characters are a type of pinyin script that has many unique features and advantages over other writing systems. First of all, Chinese characters are rich and colorful, and can express delicate emotions and artistic conceptions; Secondly, Chinese characters are easy to inherit and memorize, and have high stability and readability. Finally, Chinese characters are unique in the world and have become a part of Chinese culture and one of the cultural soft powers of the Chinese nation.

The current status and future of the development of Chinese characters

With the development of science and technology, modern people's demand for input and output of Chinese characters is also increasing. At present, with the popularization of electronic devices and smart phones, some new input methods and fonts have also emerged, and people's learning and use of Chinese characters will be more convenient and fast.

The ways and methods of learning Chinese characters are also constantly innovating and improving. While the traditional way of learning Chinese characters focuses on calligraphy and dictation, in modern times, people can learn Chinese characters through a variety of means, such as electronic devices and the Internet.

Some smartphones are equipped with corresponding fonts and input methods, which are convenient for users to use at any time. In addition, with the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning, researchers have also begun to explore how to use computers to simulate the process of human brain literacy to achieve more efficient and convenient paperless input of Chinese characters.

In the future, Chinese characters will continue to promote the spread of Chinese culture and go to the world. In areas such as tourism and cultural exchange, Chinese characters have become a global tool and medium. At the same time, with the increasing emphasis on the Chinese language and culture around the world, there is no reason to doubt that Chinese characters will continue to flourish in the future.

The origin of Chinese characters began with the ancient knotted rope chronicles, and slowly evolved into the carving of marks on wood or bamboo chips, and then to the eight trigrams. However, there was only a limit to what could be expressed through yin and yang, so people used various shapes to express meaning by observing things between heaven and earth, and oracle bone inscriptions were created. In the pre-Qin period, the oracle bone script evolved into a seal script, which greatly increased the amount of characters, but the writing was too complicated, and in the Qin Dynasty, it gradually evolved into a lishu and became the familiar Chinese characters today.

Chinese characters, also known as Chinese, Chinese characters, also known as square characters, are record symbols of the Chinese language, which belong to the morpheme syllabic script of ideograms. One of the oldest written languages in the world, more than 6,000 years old. In terms of form, it gradually changes from a figure to a stroke, a pictogram to a symbol, and a complex to simple; In the principle of word making, from the form, ideogram to shape and sound.

With the exception of a very few Chinese characters (e.g. 瓩, 兛, 兣, 呎, 嗧, etc.), all of them are one syllable per Chinese character [1] . It should be noted that Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam and other countries have been deeply influenced by Han culture in history, and even their languages have borrowed Chinese language and writing.

Chinese characters began with ancient knotted rope records, and slowly evolved into carving marks on wood or bamboo chips, and then to gossip. Since there are very few things that can be expressed through yin and yang, people used various shapes to express meaning by observing things between heaven and earth, and thus gave rise to oracle bone inscriptions. In the pre-Qin period, the oracle bone script evolved into seal script, which greatly increased the amount of characters, but the writing was too complicated, and in the Qin Dynasty, it gradually evolved into official script, and then evolved into today's Chinese characters.

Chinese characters are one of the world's longest-used, most widely used and most popular scripts, and the creation and application of Chinese characters have not only promoted the development of Chinese culture, but also had a profound impact on the development of world culture. About 6,000 years ago in the Banpo ruins and other places, there have been carved symbols, a total of more than 50 kinds.

The Chinese character originated from the "knotted rope chronicle". Knotting rope is a method used by human beings to help remember things before there is no writing, and when it comes to big things, small knots, and some also paint different colors on the rope as an auxiliary, and the knotted rope can also be used for counting.

From the "knotted rope memorization" to the use of words, people gradually created words through profound observation of natural phenomena and life phenomena.

There is also a myth and legend about the origin of Chinese characters, that is, Cangjie made characters. Cangjie, called Cangjie, surname Hou Gang, name Shi Huang, Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor historian, once circulated in the ancestors of the words to collect, sort out and use, played an important role in the process of the creation of Chinese characters, he studied Chinese characters according to the footprints of beasts, and made immortal contributions to the reproduction and prosperity of the Chinese nation.

I know that Chinese characters were created by Cangjie, and some Chinese characters are from the footprints of animals, and the evolution process of Chinese characters is like this; 'Oracle bone inscriptions, golden inscriptions, small seals, cursive scripts, line scripts, regular scripts, in the textbooks I have studied, say; 'Cangjie is a legend, I don't know if it's true or not! ’