The legend of the creation of Chinese characters, the legend of who created Chinese characters

Cangjie made it, assisted by his wife.

Legend has it that the Chinese character was created by Cangjie.

According to legend, Cangjie was a historian during the Yellow Emperor period and the creator of Chinese characters. The Yellow Emperor was the leader of the tribal alliance in the ancient Central Plains, because the society entered the stage of large-scale tribal alliances, and the diplomatic affairs and filial piety between the alliances became more and more frequent, so it was urgent to establish a set of communicative symbols shared by the alliances, so the work of collecting and sorting out the shared words was handed over to the historian Cangjie.

Cangjie, called Cangjie, the surname Hou Gang, the name of the Emperor, the historian of the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, once circulated in the ancestors of the words to collect, sort out and use, in the process of the creation of Chinese characters played an important role, he studied the Chinese characters according to the footprints of the beast, for the reproduction and prosperity of the Chinese nation made immortal achievements, and was respected by later generations as "the saint of word making".

Cangjie's contribution

1. To improve the text, the so-called "Cangjie (Cangjie) book" does not mean that Cangjie completely invented and created the text, but that Cangjie collected the existing folk pictures and characters extensively, and carefully sorted them out, so as to create a set of systematic and standardized hieroglyphs.

2. The Book of Luo, Hetu and Luo Shu record in detail the rise and fall of ancient emperors, as well as the Taoism of governing the people and the country. Only the emperor appointed by heaven can get it, Cangjie ascended the throne as the emperor, patrolled his territory to the south, climbed Yangxu Mountain, and followed the Luohe River to the east to Luoshui and the Yellow River confluence of Luoxi, and found that the spirit turtle was carrying a mysterious pattern and dedicated to Cangjie. Bagua is the evolution of Luo Shu from Zhizao, and later "Zhou Yi"**.

Legend has it that Cangjie was the historian of the Yellow Emperor, the Yellow Emperor was the leader of the tribal alliance in the ancient Central Plains, because the society entered the stage of large-scale tribal alliance, and the diplomatic affairs between the alliances became more and more frequent, so it was urgent to establish a set of communicative symbols shared by the alliances, so the work of collecting and sorting out the shared text was handed over to the historian Cangjie.

"Cangjie characters" was popular during the Warring States period. "Lü's Spring and Autumn Junshou" said: "Cangjie writes books, and Houji makes crops."

In the Qin and Han dynasties, this legend became even more prevalent. Xu Shen's "Saying Wen Interpreting Words: Narrative": Cangjie wrote a book at the beginning, and the cover was like a pictogram.

Chinese characters, also known as Chinese characters, Chinese characters, and square characters, belong to the morpheme syllabic script of ideograms. Chinese characters are the written characters of Chinese, and are also borrowed to write Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and other languages, and are a kind of script widely used in the Chinese character cultural circle, and it is also the only highly developed script in the world that is still widely used.

In a broad sense, Chinese characters refer to characters ranging from oracle bone scripts, large seals, golden scripts, Zhou scripts, and small seals to official scripts, cursive scripts, regular scripts (and derivative line scripts), and in a narrow sense, Chinese characters that are written in regular letters as the standard, which are also commonly used in modern Chinese characters today.

Chinese characters were invented and improved by the Han ancestors in ancient times, and the exact history can be traced back to the oracle bone inscriptions, Zhou scripts, and Jin inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty in about 1300 BC. Then to the small seal of the Qin Dynasty, to the Han Dynasty, to the Tang Dynasty, to the Tang Dynasty Kaihua into today's handwritten font standard - block letters.

Chinese characters are by far the longest continuously used script, and they are the only one of the major writing systems in antiquity that has been passed down to the present day, and Chinese characters have been used as the main official script in all Chinese dynasties.

Before the 20th century, it was the official written standard script of Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, the Ryukyus, and other countries, and all East Asian countries created their own Chinese characters to a certain extent.

Legend has it that Cangjie was an official under the Yellow Emperor. The Yellow Emperor assigned him to manage the number of animals in the pen and the amount of food in the tun. But slowly, the storage of livestock and food is gradually increasing and changing, and it is impossible to remember it with my head alone. Cangjie is in trouble.

On this day, he participated in a group hunt, and when he came to a fork in the road, several old men argued about which way to go. An old man insisted on going east, saying that there were antelopes; An old man wanted to go north, saying that he could catch up with the deer not far ahead; An old man wanted to go west, saying that there were two tigers, and if he didn't kill them in time, he would miss the opportunity. Cangjie asked, it turned out that they all looked at the footprints of the underground beasts before they decided.

Cangjie suddenly rejoiced in his heart: since a footprint represents a beast, why can't I use a symbol to represent what I manage? He happily ran home and began to create symbols to represent things.

Sure enough, managing things is the right thing to do.

When the Yellow Emperor found out, he praised it and ordered Cangjie to go to various tribes to teach this method. Gradually, the use of these symbols became popular. And just like that, the text was formed.

1. In the era of Cangjie and the Yellow Emperor 5,000 years ago, civilization gradually progressed, communication surged, and there were many affairs, and the mark of knotted rope was far from meeting the needs of people's lives. Therefore, sharp tools were used to carve various shapes as symbols on woodblocks or bamboo chips. And this symbol is in the form of a picture.

However, this kind of symbol is still difficult to meet people's communication needs. There is an imminent need to create formal writing.

2. Cangjie came to the south and saw a big turtle in Luoshui at the foot of Yangxu Mountain. The red turtle has many cyan patterns on its back. Cangjie felt very strange, so he took the turtle to study.

One day, he suddenly realized: What kind of pattern is this, it is clearly a meaningful text! From then on, there was a strong desire to create words.

3. Cangjie made words, on the one hand, combined with the symbols engraved on the bamboo and wood in the past, on the other hand, from a variety of objects to observe, he looked up at the stars, sun and moon in the sky, looked down on the mountains and rivers on the ground, and checked the shape of the birds, beasts, fish and insects, plants and trees around him, "absorbing all the beauty, combined into words".

4. After Cangjie made words, everything in the world has a symbol, a name, and a clear text basis. It greatly advanced the chaotic primitive civilization. Legend has it that the heavens celebrated this and gave "rain millet" to the world.

It's rain like rice falling from the sky. The gods and demons were unable to carry out their tricks, so they wept bitterly.

5. Ancient people believed that writing had a mysterious influence on natural phenomena and wild beasts. Just as after any great change in society, there are people who celebrate it, and there are people who mourn it. The legendary grace of God and the sorrowful weeping of gods and ghosts actually represent the two ideological understandings of Cangjie's character creation.

6. The characters created by Cangjie are different from Egyptian, Deed, and Sanskrit. Less is a stroke, more than dozens of strokes, few strokes are not empty, many strokes are not crowded, how many people at home and abroad in ancient and modern times admire: Chinese characters are great creations, and Cangjie is also famous through the ages.

There are three main legends about the origin of Chinese characters in the history of our country: the knotted rope theory, the gossip theory, and the Cangjie character creation theory. The ancients believed that our country was ruled by knotting ropes in ancient times, such as "Zhou Yi?

"Explain the words? Preface" and so on. In modern times, some scholars associate the knotted rope as a way of remembering with writing, believing that it is the source of writing.

In fact, words and knotted ropes are two different things after all, and knotted ropes are not words. However, it is possible that our ancestors borrowed ancient knotted ropes when making characters.

From ancient times to the present, there are many people who advocate that words are used in gossip. In fact, gossip is not a text, and it is impossible to evolve thousands of words. However, it is undeniable that some of the configurations of Chinese characters have some cultural connection to Bagua.

According to ancient Chinese legends, Cangjie, a historian at the time of the Yellow Emperor, created Chinese characters. The systematic Chinese characters are the crystallization of the collective wisdom of the ancient people, and cannot be created by one person. However, it cannot be ruled out that there are some outstanding historians who have made special contributions to the collation of Chinese characters.

A total of 2 points are awarded for answering three origins, and 1 point for each of the three evaluations.

The origin of Chinese characters is mainly described as follows:

1.Knotted rope said; The work of words, the beginning of the knot. (Late Qing Dynasty:

Zhu Zonglai) 2Gossip says; About the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes, it is the ancestor of writing. (Song:.)

Zheng Qiao) 3The deed of writing (engraved deed); The inscription symbol is one of the sources of Chinese characters. (Guo Moruo) 4

Cangjie said; During the Warring States and Han dynasties, there were many writings and were widely circulated.

5.Picture said. Words are based on pictures, and the first words are pictures that can be read (Tang Lan), I hope it will be helpful to you.

A long time ago, Cangjie was an official under the Yellow Emperor, and was responsible for counting the amount of livestock and grain in the village. Although he was very intelligent and very industrious, there were more and more livestock and food. You can't remember so much with your brain.

At first, he tied knots in ropes, using different shapes to represent different animals and grains, but there were more and more animals and grains. More and more knots are tied up. Not only is it troublesome, but it can also be wrong.

As a result, Cangjie used different symbols to represent different things, and the earliest Chinese characters were produced.

Cangjie has created many men, not only to remember things clearly, but also very fast. When the Yellow Emperor found out, he was very happy and asked him to go to various places to teach the people to learn these symbols. These symbols have undergone numerous reforms and have become the Chinese characters they are today.

Well, the man