The origin of the two Chinese characters, what is the origin of Chinese characters

Fuxi is divided into four regions, and he lives in the first place, so later in Chinese culture, he took the best as the greatest, so he put his own country in China.

The full name of China is the People's Republic of China.

In ancient times, China was also called China, Kyushu, and the Central Plains, and was renamed the People's Republic of China when it was founded.

The abbreviation of the People's Republic of China, that is, China.

According to legend, Chinese characters were created by a man named Cangjie during the Yellow Emperor period.

There is a man named Cangjie in Shaanxi Guanzhong in my country, he has four eyes, and his eyes are always full of eye feces, but these two misty eyes always radiate a strange light, and he observes things very clearly. He wore long hair and beard, and wore animal skins, and sat on the skin of a ferocious beast, often holding an earthen pen in his hand, and conversed with the man sitting opposite him.

He often rode a donkey and traveled around on the Loess Plateau in Shaanxi, trekking through mountains and rivers, crossing states and counties, to understand folk customs and collect popular folk language symbols. At that time, there was no paper, so he wrote down the collected information on the leaves of the reeds, put it in his pocket, and let the donkey carry it. He collected a lot of them, packed many bags, and the donkey died of exhaustion when he walked to what is now Qishan County, Shaanxi Province.

Cangjie took this batch of information, and he couldn't walk anymore without a donkey, so he simply found a grass hut to live in. Cangjie constantly observed the celestial phenomena, looked up to carefully see the changes in the moon's roundness and bending, and also observed the phenomenon of the evolution of mountains and rivers, wind and rain, identified all kinds of footprints of birds and beasts, or the traces left by wild beasts and vehicles after passing by, distinguished and distinguished the similarities and differences of various textures, and began to create words.

Chinese characters are mainly divided into three categories: pictographs, huiyi characters and morphophonetic characters.

1. Hieroglyphs: such as "sun, moon, mountain, river", etc., all depict the shape of things. These are pictographs in the narrow sense.

Second, the meaning of the word: such as two "wood" to form a "forest" word, two "fire" to form a "fire" word. Refers to a word that is created by the method of understanding.

3. Morphophonetic characters: It is formed on the basis of pictographs, signifiers, and ideographs, and is usually a composite of two characters, which is composed of a combination of the form (symbols) that represent the meaning category and the sound (phonetic notes) that represent the sound category. The shape side is generally played by pictographs or signifiers, and the sound side can be played by pictographs, signifiers, and ideographs.

Morphophonetic characters are the most productive form of word-making.

Chinese characters were created by the ancestors of our Han nationality in long-term social practice due to the needs of life and communication. It is generally believed that the oldest Chinese characters are oracle bone inscriptions from the Shang dynasty between the 13th and 11th centuries BC. Regarding the origin of Chinese characters, various schools have always had different opinions, among which the more influential ones are:

Knotted rope theory, gossip theory, carved deed theory, Cangjie word making theory, carving theory and picture theory.

Chinese characters were created by the ancestors of our Han nationality in long-term social practice due to the needs of life and communication. It is generally believed that the oldest Chinese characters are oracle bone inscriptions from the Shang dynasty between the 13th and 11th centuries BC. However, before the oracle bone inscription, we learned some historical theories about the origin of Chinese characters based on documentary materials, some of which were also mythical; These old claims are not all nonsense.

Regarding the origin of Chinese characters, there have always been different opinions, among which the more influential theories are: knotted rope theory, gossip theory, carved deed theory, Cangjie character creation theory, carving theory and picture theory. From the ancient legend of Cangjie characters to the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions more than 1,000 years BC, generations of Chinese scholars have been working to unravel the mystery of the origin of Chinese characters.

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.

Modern Chinese characters refer to the regular block shape of Chinese characters after italization, including traditional and simplified characters. Modern Chinese characters have evolved from oracle bone scripts, golden scripts, large seals (籀文), small seals, to official scripts, cursive scripts, regular scripts, and line scripts. Chinese characters were invented, created and improved by the ancestors of the Han nationality, and are an indispensable link to maintain the dialect areas of the Han nationality.

The earliest surviving Chinese characters are the oracle bone inscription of the Yin Shang dynasty in about 1300 BC and the later Jin inscription, which evolved into the Zhou script in the Western Zhou Dynasty, then to the small seal and official script of the Qin Dynasty, to the prevalence of the official script of the Han and Wei dynasties, and to the end of the Han Dynasty. Regular script prevailed in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and is still in use.

"China", the abbreviation of the People's Republic of China, we often say, we are the descendants of Yan Huang, we are the descendants of the dragon, we are Chinese, then do you know the origin of the word "China"?

The word "China" was first collected in the treasure of the Shaanxi Baoji Bronze Museum.

He Zun", unearthed in 1963 in Jiacun Town, Baoji County, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province (now Chencang District, Baoji City). It is a bronze wine vessel in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, and it was made by the nobleman "He" in the fifth year of King Cheng of Zhou. Its shape is solemn and heavy, the ornamentation is exquisite, and there are 12 lines of 122 words of inscription cast on the inner bottom of the statue (this kind of inscription is mostly cast on the bronze bell or tripod, so it is also called "Zhong Dingwen" or "Jinwen"), wherein".Zhaizi China"(to the effect that I want to live in the ** region of the world) for".ChinaThe earliest written record of the word.

In the 21st century BC, the establishment of the Xia Dynasty marked the birth of a unified form of state power in China, and it was then that the concept of "China" took on political connotations. "Shangshu" notes the clouds: ".The crown dress is said to be Hua, and the big country is called Xia".Huaxia is also called China

From the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, the Huaxia region, centered on the Yellow River Valley, began to be calledChina

The word "middle" in the golden text resembles a flagpole, with streamers up and down, and the flagpole is erected in the middle. The original meaning is center, center, and refers to the position in the middle of a certain range. The early "country" character in the Jin text is "or", which is composed of the city and the gange, which means "".Fight to defend the community

One of the symbols of civilization is writing, and one of the symbols of a country is the army.

The reason why Jin Wen "or (country)" is not added is "because Zhou Tianzi thinks".The whole world is not the king's landTherefore, there is no need to add "or (country)" and "later on this basis" to think that the boundaries and scope of the country belong to the natural evolution of words. For example, during the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty expanded his territory and set up a capital in the Western Regions, and the territory of the Han Dynasty was expanded to the extreme during the period of Emperor Xuan of the Han DynastyWhere the sun and the moon shine and the rivers go, they are all Han land”。This "Dinghu Tablet" has become the national boundary of the Han nation, so the word "country" in the Han Dynasty has "".

In 1982, China issued the first set of special commemorative stamps for cultural relics.

In addition, the logo of China Post Group"Medium"The design of the word is also ** in He Zun.

Since its birth, the word "China" has always been closely related to our culture.

Origin of the word China:

The word "China" first appeared in the "Book of Songs" of the Zhou Dynasty, such as "Daya Minlao" "Hui this China". However, this kind of "China" in the "Book of Songs" is actually "in the country", and it does not really refer to the country. The word "China" that refers to the state is not uncommon in the Warring States Zhuzi books.

For example, "Mencius Teng Wen Gongshang" cloud: "Chen Liang origin, Yue Zhou Gongzhongni's way, north learning in China", and "the way of beast's hoofs and bird tracks, handed over to China"; "Zhuangzi Tianzi Fang": "The gentleman of China, who knows the courtesy and righteousness and knows the hearts of the people", ......These all illustrate:

The so-called "China" in ancient times refers to the "Central Plains" in later generations. However, the area is not as wide as the Central Plains in later generations, and is equivalent to the area of Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, and Hebei today.

The frequent use of the term "China" is mainly after the Zhou Dynasty. "The Book of Rites: The Royal System" has a cloud: "China Yirong, the people of the five directions, all have sex and ......."China, barbarian, Yi, Rong, and Di all have peace.

It is very obvious that the word "China" at this time was used in opposition to the barbarians, Yi, Rong, and Di. "Zuo Chuan: The Thirty-first Year of Zhuang Gong" has "Where the princes have the merits of the four yi, they will be dedicated to the king, and the king will be warned." China is no", it can be seen that in the Spring and Autumn Period, the word "China" was already opposed to the barbarians, Yi, Rong, and Di.

The Legend of the Ram: The Four Years of Xi Gong said: "Nanyi and Beidi are intertwined, and China is endless. Duke Huan saved China and killed Jing, taking this as the king's business.

Qi Huan Gong's rescue of Xing, Wei and other countries was called "saving China", and "China" at this time had been expanded to countries that were considered "Zhuxia".

Chinese characters originated more than 1,000 years ago in oracle bone inscriptions, and then went through various dynasties and generations to change and optimize, and finally spread to the Chinese characters used today. 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.

Archaeology confirms that in the early Shang Dynasty, Chinese civilization had developed to a fairly high level, and one of its main features was the appearance of oracle bone inscriptions. Oracle bone inscriptions are ancient scripts carved on tortoise shells and animal bones. In the Shang Dynasty, kings had to do divination before doing anything, and oracle bones were the tools used for divination.

Oracle bones are processed before they can be used. First, the flesh from the oracle bones is removed, and then it is sharpened and smoothed. Then, the inside of the nail or the reverse side of the animal bone is drilled with a knife.

The arrangement of these concaves is orderly.

In Chinese characters, the various fonts formed in various historical periods have their own distinctive artistic characteristics. For example, the seal script is simple and elegant, the official script is still moving, rich in decoration, the cursive script is galloping, the structure is compact, the regular script is neat and beautiful, the line is easy to read and easy to write, the practicality is strong, and the style is diverse, and the personality is different. However, before the unification of the Qin script, Chinese characters, both in terms of font and application, were still chaotic.

Broadly speaking, ancient texts include the pre-small seals including the big seal; In a narrow sense, it refers to the writing before the Great Seal in the history of Chinese writing.

The evolution of Chinese characters is a process of gradual standardization and stabilization of Chinese character glyphs and fonts. The small seal fixes the number of strokes for each character; Lishu formed a new pen-shaped system, and the glyphs gradually became flat squares; After the birth of regular script, the glyph font of Chinese characters was stabilized, and the basic strokes of "horizontal, vertical, apostrophe, point, pinch, pick, and fold" were determined, and the shape of the strokes was further standardized, and the number of strokes and stroke order of each character were also fixed. For more than a thousand years, regular script has been the standard character for Chinese characters.