We all know that Chinese characters are broad and profound, can you give an example?

As we all know, Chinese characters are the longest used characters on the planet, and they are the only ones that have been passed down to this day in the major writing systems of antiquity. There were many peoples in the world who went from slash-and-burn barbarians to civilized societies with written languages. For example, ancient Babylon was to cuneiform, Egyptians were to hieroglyphs, Maya was to graphic writing, etc., and the Chinese also invented hieroglyphs.

Today, however, several other ancient writing systems have long since died out. Only Chinese characters have been passed down and carried forward. There are as many as 1.5 billion people in the world who speak Chinese.

Chinese characters are vast and profound, with profound meanings and a history of thousands of years. Ancient legend Cangjie made words, "The sky is the rain, the ghost is crying for the night, and the dragon is hidden." Although it is a myth and legend, it can be seen that the significance of Chinese characters to Chinese culture, in addition to the way of expression and preservation of language, also contains great Chinese philosophical thoughts.

Tao - the top is a "head", and the bottom is walking. The Tao is to walk more, see more, and think more with your head.

Yi - the top is a "day", the bottom is actually a "month", the sun and the moon are easy, and easy actually refers to the change of the sun and the moon. Change is easy. Ming - "day" and "month" are bright.

The sun is yang and the moon is yin. If you want to understand a thing, you must first see both yin and yang, positive and negative, and then you can understand it. With the development of science and technology, the popularization of computers, people can use more advanced tools to query the words they do not know anytime and anywhere, for literacy, people are less and less concerned, but Chinese characters as the culture of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, can not be well inherited, which has to introduce our attention!

Morphophonetic characters are composed of two parts: the form that represents the meaning and the sound that represents the pronunciation. For example, "dove";The second is "combined with the meaning of the word", such as "not right is crooked, not good is bad". The characteristic of this type of character is that the meaning of the word on the side of the meeting is to express the meaning of the whole combined character.

The symbols of the Chinese nation that record the world, each of which has gone through the bird and insect script, the oracle bone inscription, various seal scripts, official scripts, chapter grass, regular script and Xingcao various bodies, as well as the printing style that appeared after the Song style, and now, there are all kinds of digital deformations;For thousands of years, with the evolution of time and the times, they have been constantly changing and evolving, accompanied by the constantly updated level of civilization, political system, and people's hearts, their glyphs are changing, their usage is changing, and their reading is changing, but their fundamental meaning has never changed.

Idioms are a shining pearl in Chinese culture, which is also absolutely absent in foreign languages. For example, the idiom "twilight clouds and spring trees", evening clouds, spring trees, how beautiful. It is from Du Fu's "Spring with Li Bai".

The meaning of this idiom refers to the beautiful scenery that evokes people's memories, and it is a metaphor for missing a distant confidant.

Chinese is an ideogram, a highly developed writing system with a long history of 3,000 years, starting from the oracle bone script. English, French, Russian, Arabic, etc., are all phonetic scripts. We all know that there are many idioms in Chinese characters, and the ** of idioms is a summary of the predecessors' experience of beauty, the experience of life, wisdom quotes, ideological philosophies, etc., and the phrases that have become popular and have a high degree of generalization and enlightenment.

From the perspective of the structure of the text itself, the text is a writing system composed of ideographic, phonetic deviations, and marks that are neither ideographic nor phonetic. Words originated from pictures. In the early stages of writing, the glyph of a pictogram is directly related to the meaning of the morpheme it represents.

There are two types of characters, one is a single character and the other is a combined character. The difference between the two is that the single character is a pure mark character, and the combined character is a combination of the individual characters, and the combined character is divided into three types.

The earliest Chinese writing should be counted from the Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscription, which has a history of 3,000 years. The oracle bone script itself is a fairly mature writing system. The development of Chinese characters can be divided into two major stages, from oracle bone inscription to small seal; From the Qin and Han dynasties, it is another stage.

The former belongs to the category of ancient scripts, while the latter belongs to the category of modern scripts.

There is nothing but obscurity, and there are no other examples.

Bilie said: To change the way the word month is written, put the half bracket on the left first to become the month.

The breadth and profundity of Chinese characters are reflected in the following aspects:

1. Chinese characters are the miracle of life.

Chinese characters have a history of more than 3,000 years from the Yin Shang oracle bone inscription. Chinese characters are ideographic and morphological characters, and they are also characters that focus on aesthetic images. The amount of information in Chinese characters is incomparable to certain uncertainties and controversies.

Chinese characters have made great contributions to the integration and cohesion of the Chinese nation, in safeguarding the dignity and identity of the Chinese nation, and in extricating themselves from difficulties through long-standing, consistent and changeable ways.

2. Chinese characters are inseparable from Chinese culture.

Every nation has its own unique culture, and the best medium for the inheritance and development of these cultures is writing. Chinese characters are not only a record of language, but also carry the survival and honor of the Chinese nation, as well as the blood, tears and joy of the people. Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam are deeply influenced by Chinese culture because of their use of Chinese characters.

3. A Chinese character, a history, a story.

Pinyin characters are a combination of letters to express the sound of the language, and the meaning of the word comes from the sound. If the sound of the language changes, the meaning of the word changes, so the letter itself has no independent meaning.

But a Chinese character can have different pronunciations, Shandong people have Shandong people's pronunciation, Hakka people have Hakka pronunciation, Taiwanese people have Taiwanese pronunciation, but the meaning is the same. Chinese characters have such characteristics, so they can unite different languages and different races to form Chinese culture.

Pinyin characters are just a symbol, and the meaning changes with the sound and environment. Whereas, Chinese characters are a picture, and every part of the picture is meaningful. The meaning of interpretation varies from era to era.

But basically, the meaning of the strokes of Chinese characters is stable and does not change with changes in sound and environment. More importantly, from these strokes, we can see the social conditions, economic activities, cultural trends and so on in the era of character creation, so a Chinese character is a piece of history and a story.

The Nine Principles of Chinese Writing.

1. Retain the outline of the original word: such as turtle (turtle) and worry (consideration).

2. Retain some of the features of the original character and omit others: such as sound (sound) and medicine (medicine).

3. Change the side of the simpler strokes: such as hugging (supporting) and fighting (war).

4. The shape and sound of the word is changed to a simple sound note: such as surprise (surprise), protection (protection).

5. Merging of common words: If "li" and "裏" are connected, the simpler "li" is the merged word. "Yu" and "Yu" are connected, and the combined word is "Yu".

6. Cursive Kaihua: such as special (specialized), east (east), car (car), turn **).

7. The use of ancient pictograms, instructions, and ideograms: such as three people into the "crowd" (public), two people for the "from" (from), net (net). These ancient characters are both simple and in line with the principles of word making. Originally, these ancient characters may have been multiplied for the sake of beauty.

8. Replace complex sides with simple symbols: such as chicken (chicken), huan (huan), and difficult (difficult) left side change.

9. Use ancient characters: such as holy (sacred), li (li), no (none), dust (dust) and other words.

Chinese characters are broad and profound. "One" can be said to be the simplest word. The word "one" was first seen in the Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscription and the Shang Dynasty Jin inscription, since ancient times, the glyph of the word "one" has never changed, it is a simple horizontal.

At the same time, "一" is also the most abundant character in Chinese characters. "One" can symbolize creation, "one life two, two give birth to three, three give birth to all things", a durable idea, a move, the first step taken bravely, the colorful world comes from the simple beginning;

"One" can symbolize unity, "all people are united" and "one call is a hundred responses", countless individuals gather into a pile of fire because of the same belief, twisted into a rope; "In a fight" can also symbolize strength, "although thousands of people have gone to me", this "indomitable" body or shadow shows the strength and firm ...... of the heart

The pronunciation of "standing like a pine, sitting like a bell, walking like the wind, lying like a bow" is as follows: zhàn rú sōng , zuò rú zhōng , xíng rú fēng , wò rú gōng. The initials are:

zh、r、s、z、r、zh、x、r、f、w、r、g；The finals are: an, u, ong, uo, u, ong, ing, u, eng, o, u, ong; The tones are: four tones, two tones, one voice, four tones, two tones, one voice, two tones, two tones, two tones, one voice, four tones, two tones, and one voice.

The explanation of this sentence is that the sitting posture is like the table clock placed on the table in the old days, and it is flat and stable. When standing, it stands as tall as a pine tree. Walk as fast as the wind. Sleep with a straight body like a bow.

Chinese characters mainly originated from pictographic drawings of memorization, and pictographs are the basis for the formation and development of the Chinese character system. The later evolution has gone through a long process of thousands of years, through the stages of oracle bone inscription, golden script, seal script, official script, regular script, cursive script, line script, etc., and the regular script is widely used today, but it is still not completely finalized.

The Chinese archaeological community has released a series of excavated materials related to the origin of writing earlier than the Yinxu oracle bone inscriptions. The Jiahu inscription has been physically determined by carbon 14 and is about 7762 years (128 years) old; 7,000 years ago Shuangdun inscriptions, 6,000 years ago Banpo pottery symbols, more than 5,000 years ago Qingdun ruins inscriptions, ligatures into sentences of Zhuangqiao tomb site text, Dawenkou pottery symbols, Yaoshun era Tao temple site Zhu Wen.

The early carved symbols and bone inscriptions are rich writing systems, and the later ones belong to the initial mature stage. These archaeological discoveries may be important clues to the origin of Chinese characters, or they may be different sources of the development of various scripts.

About 6,000 years ago, the outer wall of the pottery of Yangshao cultural sites such as the Banpo site has appeared carved symbols, a total of more than 50 kinds. They are neatly planned and have a certain regularity, with the characteristics of simple characters, which may be the germ of Chinese characters.

In the early 80s of the 20th century, more complete writing was found on the pottery excavated at the Dengfeng Xia Cultural Site in Henan. At that time, scholars confirmed that it was the earliest written language of the exact age in Japan.

Cangjie makes words.

In the early days of human beings, there were no Chinese characters, and this time passed for a long, long time. In order to adapt to the needs of life, to help, express, exchange, remember, the ancients used the "knotted rope chronicle.""。They used strings of different lengths and colors to tie different forms of knots at unequal intervals as needed, and then tied them to a thicker lord in turn, which recorded a wide range of contents, ranging from historical events to small quarrels.

Chroniclers often twist knots by hand to reminisce and tell the story to pass on to future generations.

There are also people who have used the word of things, which is to use a specific thing to represent a fixed meaning. For example, some use siha (small persimmon leaves) to indicate that I am depressed, some use fire to say that I want to find you, and some are also tools for communicating thoughts and emotions, but they are very difficult to use, and the development of human society has been hindered.

Legend has it that Cangjie created words. Cangjie saw the footprints of birds in the mud in the wild, and they had only oblique and crossed. It's varied, and every line is so even, so beautiful.

So he imitated the footprints of birds to create the strokes of the characters, and this was the beginning of the creation of words! Later, he created words based on the shape or movement of turtle patterns, insects, snakes, millet grass, mountains, rivers, and plants.

When Cangjie wrote the words to people, everyone was very happy and talked about it!

In this way, one of the earliest human writings——— Chinese characters was born!