The importance of letters in ancient communication

An epistle is a kind of applied document that conveys information and communicates thoughts and feelings to a specific object.

Our country has a long history and culture, and is a well-known country of etiquette. People's social interactions and ideological and emotional exchanges are mostly carried out through certain forms of etiquette and certain cultural activities.

In real life, everyone often uses a series of application texts, such as traditional letters, business cards, Cambodian stickers, notices, inscriptions, couplets, etc., and modern ones such as telegrams, faxes, express mail, e-mail, etc. These applied writings contain rich etiquette content and have a strong cultural color of the Chinese nation.

Letters are one of the tools for people to exchange ideas, express opinions, transmit information, and communicate information in their daily lives, as early as the pre-Qin period, there are records of letters in historical books, which have a history of more than 2,000 years.

Letters are a tool for exchanging emotions and thoughts between people who are far away and who do not see each other for a while. Therefore, the importance of letters is self-evident, especially in ancient times, when transportation was inconvenient, so that relatives and friends who were far away could exchange news. Letters have a long history and are used by people all over the world, so letters have played an important role in the history of human exchange and communication since ancient times.

From ancient times to the end, information is the most valuable, and now everyone carries mobile phones in their hands, and letters are slowly being replaced. If you suddenly go back to antiquity now, you will find the important role of letters.

The earliest appearance of the epistle is probably after the appearance of writing. In the period of paper, people used knives to engrave words on bamboo pieces and pass them on fast horses, and the official so-called post station appeared. In this regard, reference can be made to the development of paper.

Because it appears in the Epistles"Eight hundred miles expedited""Courier"and other nouns. The importance of this can only be overstated"It is the top priority of people's daily military society".Otherwise, Bill Gates would not have become the richest man in the world.

In ancient times, due to the limitations of science and technology, it was impossible to have many ways of communication as now, only one way of correspondence, and in ancient times, the importance of family letters, family members were in contact with each other through letters, and some important information should also be transmitted through letters, and oral transmission will be distorted.

There are many characteristics of letters, and correspondence is commonplace, and they are analyzed from the perspective of communication, including: There is a specific reader. Generally, the target audience of letters is a specific person, and the recipients of letters are of various kinds, including superiors and subordinates, elders, juniors, family members, relatives and friends, comrades, and even enemies.

The true outpouring of the inner world. Letters are a tool for communicating thoughts and feelings with a specific reader, and they are expressed in written words, which can unreservedly reveal the author's innermost thoughts and feelings. The writing style is flexible and free.

Due to the different audiences of the letter and the wide range of applications, it is written in a very free way, and it can be argumentative, lyrical, descriptive, and explanatory.

There is a fixed format. A general letter consists of a salutation, greeting, body, ending, name, date, envelope, etc., and each part has a fixed writing format.

There are three main characteristics in writing: 1. Take true feelings as the core;

2. Take the analysis of wishes as the content;

3. Lyricism and argumentation as the form of expression.

There are mainly bird biography (flying pigeon biography, Hongyan biography, flying geese biography), post biography, beacon fire, wolf smoke, flags, lights and so on.

1.Asuka Story: A letter is tied to the pigeon's foot and then passed on to the person to be delivered. In ancient times, the communication was inconvenient, the pigeon could fly and fly relatively fast, and it could identify the direction, and many other advantages, the pigeon was domesticated to improve the speed of sending letters.

2.In ancient times, the organizational system for the reception of correspondence and the transmission of documents was carried out, as well as the system of conscription for this purpose. It started with Yin Shang.

Oracle has"Knights"、"car"、"Post Den"and so on. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was a post post, "Mencius, Gongsun Choushang":"Confucius said:

The popularity of Lourdes is faster than the mail and the fate'。"After the unification of Qin, post roads were built widely, and post posts developed rapidly. Han Cheng Qin system, on the road every 30 miles to place a post for stay; Houses are set up in various places for resting and lodging.

The Tang Dynasty was divided into cars, horses, and ships, and there were three kinds of water posts, land posts, and water and land stations, which were under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War. Song Yichuan was under the control of the army, set up a military post office, and set up a courier shop that traveled day and night to deliver military documents. In the Yuan Dynasty, there were Mongolian stations in Chi (transliteration of post transmission) and post stations in Han land.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were land posts, water posts, post stations, delivery stations, express shops, horse clippers, etc. In the Qing Dynasty, there were post stations, ponds, platforms, offices, shops, etc. In ancient times, post stations were generally equipped with husbands, chariots and horses, and instructed to handle gifts and rations for the transmission of documents and transit.

During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, it was gradually abolished with the establishment of a new type of postal service.

3.Fireworks of the ancient border alarm.

4.The smoke rising from burning wolf dung during the ancient border guards.

5.It was a major means of communication in ancient times and is now the common language of navies around the world. Different flags, different groups of flags express different meanings.

6.Cover and let go of the lights to send a message by turning it on and off.

Hello, the characteristics of the Epistle? The characteristics of the epistle are: 1. To write in the first person, I am the one who writes to someone.

2. The language is natural, you can use your own words, you don't need to chew the words, as long as you can express the meaning you want to express. 3. The language can be casual, not all written language, it can be oral language, which will not delay communication and will be more cordial. The most important feature of letters is their privacy, and many things that are inconvenient to say in public and those who are specific to them can be solved through letters.

1.On the whole, it is still the most formal letter. If it involves more formal communication such as business or meetings, it is extremely difficult to leave traces and evidence, but the letter is written in black and white by the other party, so it is difficult to deny.

2.Feel kind to the handwriting of acquaintances, and you can feel the sincerity of the other person to the greatest extent. Think email.

Bar, typos will exist, line breaks forgot to change, no payment, wrong numbers, etc., and letters are written very carefully and carefully, the possibility of mistakes is small, and it feels the most sincere. The above two reasons are also the fundamental reasons why IT technology is developing so fast, and traditional letters still have their living space and cannot be completely replaced.

Hello! In ancient times, the letters exchanged between the two countries were called rulers or letters. Ruler, letter ceremony.

Books are letters, and the letters of the ancients are also called "rulers" or "letters", which is an applied literary style. However, China's applied literary style has never excluded the aesthetic literary attributes, especially the integration of letters, more memorization and expression, ancient Chinese lyrical prose began with letters, and the combination of practicality and aesthetics of letters is perfect. The rulers of the Han and Wei dynasties focused on practicality, and most literati had no intention of writing them as aesthetic works.

Ancient ways of acquiring and transmitting information:

In ancient China, before the invention of paper, the common "letter" was written on a thin wooden board with lacquer, which was called a wooden slip. Because the wooden slab is generally one foot long, it is also called "ruler". Later, some people wrote letters on silk and called them "rulers".

Zhang Jiuling in the Tang Dynasty poems: "It is difficult to pass on the turmoil of the commission." The ruler means "faith."

"Carp" can also refer to letters, and the allusion comes from the poem of Han Yuefu: "The guest came from afar, leaving me with two carps." Hu'er cooks carp, and there is a ruler book.

Letterhead Letterhead refers to stationery. "Flower note" is a small piece of letterhead made of precious paper and decorated with patterns. In ancient times, there were many famous flower notes, including five-color notes, brocade notes, hundred-rhyme notes, phoenix tail notes, etc.

Or out of Wu, or out of Bashu. The most famous is the Xue Tao note in the Shu note.

Envelopes The earliest envelopes in our country were made of wooden boards. During the Qin and Han dynasties, most of the public and private letters were written on bamboo slips or wooden notes, and then two wooden boards carved into the shape of a carp were used as a bottom and a cover, and the notes were sandwiched in the middle. This plank is the earliest envelope in history.

In the Tang Dynasty, since the beginning of Zhenguan, the envelope was made of thick cocoon paper in North Korea, shaped like a carp, with scales painted on both sides, and books could be stored in the abdomen, which was called "carp letter".

Messenger In ancient times, messengers were called "letters" or "messengers", and they were combined as messengers. For example, Sima Xiangru "Yu Ba Shu Xuan": "Therefore, send messengers to tell the people about the death."

According to legend, Ge Xuan, a Wu man of the Three Kingdoms, exchanged letters with Hebo, making the carp a messenger. Legend has it that the wild goose also passed on the book, so the messenger was also called "the wild goose". Wang Changling, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem:

Holding a double carp in his hand, he watched the geese for thousands of miles. ”

Modern ways of information transfer and acquisition:

From the perspective of human communication history, the evolution of human communication methods presents the following context: visual culture, auditory culture (intuitive feeling, "the spirit of seeing"), conceptual culture ("the spirit of reading"), and a new culture of sight and hearing ("the new spirit of seeing").

Therefore, we have absolutely reason to believe that one day in the future, image information will occupy the mainstream, and literature will retreat to an extremely marginal position, replaced by a kind of multi-art that can be heard, seen and even touched and smelled. However, words will not be completely replaced by images like some people, because words are the main means of accumulating knowledge, an indispensable link for human beings to acquire abstract thinking, and an indispensable medium for human communication.

Cable communication transmission, such as **, fax, telegram, television, etc.

Wireless communication transmission, such as walkie-talkies, BP machines (obsolete), mobile**, radios.

Digital communication transmission, the most familiar, networked computers, digital television.

Paper communication transmission, such as letters, newspapers, etc.