How were the Chinese characters that we commonly use in our lives created? What are the rules for us

First of all, let's talk about how Chinese characters were created.

The Chinese characters commonly used in our lives are said to have been first created by a historian of the Yellow Emperor, a man named Cangjie. Cangjie is said to have four eyes, and when he saw the hoof prints of animals and claws of birds on the ground, he was inspired to create words.

Legend has it that after Cangjie succeeded in making words, there was a strange phenomenon of "rain in the sky, ghosts crying at night". It means that on the day when Cangjie succeeded in creating characters, it rained like rain during the day, and I heard ghosts crying and howling at night. Why is it raining like corn?

Because Cangjie created words, which can be used to convey thoughts and record things, it is naturally worth celebrating. But why do ghosts cry? Some people say that it is because of the writing that the wisdom of the people is opening day by day, and the people's morality is departing day by day, and deception and cunning, fighting for and killing are born from this, and there will never be peace in the world, and even ghosts will not be at peaceThis legend gives the text the role of witchcraft.

The legend of Cangjie making characters did not exist until the end of the Warring States period. In fact, we should know that words are constantly evolving, and it is impossible to say that it is the creation of one person, and that words should be a kind of collective wisdom.

On this issue, I agree with Mr. Zhu Ziqing's statement in "Classic Conversations". Mr. Zhu believes that Cangjie's theory of character creation cannot be fully believed, and that words cannot be created by one person, but are the result of continuous development and evolution. Of course, Cangjie did not create characters out of thin air, this legend appeared at the end of the Warring States Period, probably to meet the needs of the text flow at that time.

Secondly, what are the rules for the use of Chinese characters?

Literacy is the first step in education, so many people try to write a good dictionary. Until the Eastern Han Dynasty and the emperor's time, a person named Xu Shen wrote a "Shuowen Jie Zi". It is an epoch-making character book that contains more than 9,000 characters, and there are explanations for each word.

He also analyzed the radicals, determined the radicals, and divided the more than 9,000 characters into 540 radicals, a practice that has been used to this day.

In "Shuowen Jie Zi", Xu Shen summarized the six regulations on the use of words, called the "Six Books":

One is "pictograms"., such as "day", "month" and other words;

The second is "pointing to things"., such as "up", "down", etc.;

The third is "understanding"., usually two or more words are combined into one word, such as "zhige" for "wu", "people" for "letter";

The fourth is "shape and sound".It is also a combination of two words, one is the shape and the other is the sound, such as "river", water is the shape, and the word "gongke" is the sound, and the shape and sound word is the most convenient and widely used in making words;

Fifth, "transfer"., which is a deformation of a word, such as "test" and "old";

Sixth, "pretending".For example, the original meaning of "order" is to issue a number, and it is borrowed as the "order" of the county magistrate and so on.

Xu Shen used these "six books" as regulations to give the rules for the use of Chinese characters, and also used these rules to govern the text of the whole book.

Six Ancient Ways to Make Words:

1. Pictograms: Among the pictographs, there are also some pictographs that are not directly used to represent specific objects, but are used to represent concepts related to physical objects.

2. Signifier: It is the word-making method that uses symbolic symbols or indicative symbols to add indicative symbols to the graphics to express meaning.

3. Knowing the meaning method: it is a word-making method that combines two or more words to represent a new meaning according to the meaning.

4. Shape and sound method: It is a word-making method formed by burying orange next to the sound and next to the sound. Because the shape and sound of the word is produced on the basis of pictograms, signifiers, and meanings.

5. Transcription method: There are many sayings in the past, and the more popular ones are a word-making method adopted to adapt to the development of dialect divergence and phonetics.

6. Fake borrowing method: It is a method of borrowing homophones to express new meanings ("fake" is also the meaning of borrowing), such as "Ru" is originally the name of water, borrowed as a second-person pronoun.

The following is Xu Shen's explanation of the "Six Books" in "Shuo Wen Jie Zi Shu":

The pictographer is painted as its object, and the sun and the moon are also;

Those who point to things can be seen and recognized, and the wind can be observed, and the top and bottom are Zhaotan;

Those who know, compare and match, to see the finger, Wu times is also;

Those who form and sound, in the name of things, take each other as examples, and rivers are also;

The transferor, the construction of a class, the same as the other, the test is also;

The pretend, there is no word, according to the voice of the matter, the order is also;

Most scholars have different opinions on the "six books", believing that it should be the four-body two-use family of liqueur, that is, the first four books belong to the word-making method, and the last two books can only be regarded as the use of words, especially the pretense of borrowing, and does not produce new words, but only borrows existing words.

The most famous way of saying exactly how Chinese characters were created is, of courseCangjie made words, so the old legend, the Yellow Emperor ordered Cangjie to make words, the text is completed, "the sky rains, the ghost cries at night". In this way, there is this legend, which is the origin of the word.

Chinese characters, the oldest writing in the world, have a history of more than 6,000 yearsIn the principle of word making, follow the shape, meaning, sound, in the use, in addition to the original meaning of the word, there are also transfers, borrowingIt can be said that the creation and evolution of Chinese characters are rich and brilliant, and at the same time beautiful and logical.

Chinese culture is broad and profound, and we need to spend more and more energy to study it. It is also constantly influencing every country, language, so to speak, the soul of every country. Man, endlessly!

At first, Chinese characters were all pictographs, and in order to remember something, people drew it directly and recorded it on wood or bone, and later for the sake of simplicity, it evolved into the current Chinese characters, and when people want to look up something, they will turn out the recorded words.

One of the most famous theories is that the emperor asked Cangjie to make characters, summarized them according to the structure and appearance of the characters, summarized the rules, and then consciously made characters according to these rules.

Chinese characters evolved step by step from oracle bone inscriptions, and it took thousands of years for them to become the script we use today.

One of the most famous theories about the creation of Chinese characters is that Cangjie made charactersIt is said that when the emperor ordered Cangjie to make words, the words created at that time were not the Chinese characters we use now, but after inheriting them from ancient times to the present, our Chinese characters have become what they are now, at the beginning of people's convenience in life, so they will use some very simple patterns to mark some things, to record the things needed in life, and slowly through the accumulation of time, the use of these patterns has been summarized, and a certain law has been mastered. Eventually, it evolved into writing, and at the beginning, several fonts were developed based on how they were used and structured.

Chinese characters can be said to be a very, very old type of writingIt has a history of 6,000 years now, and at the beginning it was the shape of the word, that is to say, according to some graphics to record things, and gradually according to the shape of the sound, as well as the meaning of the representation of the creation, slowly created the Chinese characters we use, about the evolution of Chinese characters, it can be said that it has gone through a long time, which contains a lot of rich content, but Chinese characters are a very ancient language, and the culture of our Chinese nation has been inherited for thousands of years. Chinese characters have a very, very important influence on our descendants of Yan and Huang.

The evolution of Chinese characters can be said to have taken a long timeFrom the oracle bone script we are familiar with to simplified characters, I found that your words, and then to the vocabulary of our current Chinese characters, can be said to have gone through 3000 years of evolution, but in ancient times, people often used traditional characters, so we have changed the simplified characters now It is very convenient for us to write in modern times.

Chinese characters have undergone a process of continuous evolution, not only in the way of writing has changed to a certain extent, but also in the pronunciation of the changes have been added, but Chinese characters have a deep impact on our descendants of Yan and Huang, carrying the glory and disgrace of our nation, and also bringing us the glory of the Chinese nation.

The Chinese characters were created by Cangjie during the Yellow Emperor period. He observed the mountains, rivers, birds, and beasts, and created hieroglyphs, which were used for divination in ancient times.

Chinese characters were created by an ancient man named Cangjie. In ancient times, people knotted ropes to make characters, and carved them on tortoise shells according to the shape and characteristics of things.

Through the structure and use of existing patterns, people summarize them and summarize the rules; After the laws are proposed and recognized, people consciously make characters according to these laws. According to its physical structure and usage methods, people have summed up the "six books", that is, the six rules of Chinese characters: pictogram, signifier, huiyi, shape and sound, transfer, and pretend.

The statement of the Six Books was first found in the Zhou Li. So people slowly have a lot of Chinese characters according to these points, and they have fake characters.

Chinese characters are vast and profound, evolving step by step from oracle bone inscriptions to modern simplified Chinese characters in our historical period, which can not only express our ideas, but also help us communicate.

Chinese characters are the oldest writing in the world, has a history of more than 6,000 years, in the form, from the graphic to the stroke, in the principle of word making, follow the shape, meaning, sound, in the use, in addition to the original meaning of the word, there is also a transfer, borrowing, it can be said that the creation and evolution of Chinese characters, is rich and brilliant, at the same time is beautiful and logical.

How are Chinese characters created? There is a famous saying that flies created Chinese characters. According to ancient legends, the Yellow Emperor ordered flies to create Chinese characters.

When the characters were created, it was raining in the sky and ghosts were crying in the night. In this way, there is an origin of legends and character creation. Although the origin of writing is uncertain, we can basically determine the laws of its creation:

Writing is the product of a long life of primitive humans, and at first it may have been just a few simple patterns.

Whether it is pictographic, morphophonic, or ideological, the word itself is a combination of 0 and 1.

As the saying goes, those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black, and they will be affected by the environment after a long time in a certain environment. If you live with someone who is learned, you will become studious, and if you are with someone who swears for a long time, you will become dirty.

And the influence of Chinese characters is the same, every day I see the words with strong positive energy, people's righteousness will become stronger and stronger, look at problems, solve problems will become more positive, and life will be smoother and smoother over time.

Therefore, do not ignore the energy of Chinese characters, as Chinese, we must not only pay attention to Chinese characters, but also learn and carry forward Chinese traditional culture.