1autumn of 954 to1summer of 957, ancient laborers in China excavated Banpo site (now north of banpo village, the eastern suburb of Xi city) for many times, and found that as early as 6,000 years ago, people in the left and right Banpo created illegal symbols, paintings, sculptures and decorations with literary nature in their long-term life and production practice. The carved symbols of Banpo people are mostly left on painted pottery, which can be regarded as original Chinese characters.
In recent years, a number of tombs and tombs (more than 4,500 years ago) have been found in a site in the late Dawenkou culture of Lingyang River in Juxian County, Shandong Province, and a large number of cultural relics have been unearthed. On some pottery statues, a word like a picture is engraved, and more than one word 10 has been published. These characters are drawn according to the shape of objects, so they are called "hieroglyphics". The structure of characters is similar to hieroglyphics in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, but it predates Oracle Bone Inscriptions by 1000 years. So "Pictograph" is the earliest written language in China, which has the characteristics of written language.
There are three forms of Chinese characters:
method of images
This is the earliest way to form Chinese characters, creating the most primitive characters, such as "day", "month", "water" and "cow". After gradual evolution, these hieroglyphics all changed the form of the original characters and later became regular characters. Some strokes have been reduced, and some strokes have been added, from irregular characters to regular characters.
Default method
Compared with pictographic characters, pictographic characters are easier to see the principle of word-making, but they can't express the idea of drawing. The ancients created another word-formation method-the method of knowing meaning. It is to use different symbols or "hieroglyphics" plus some symbols to express the idea of drawing an image. Example: Write the word "bright", which means that "day" and "month" bring light and brightness. The word "Dan" is written as (meaning that the sun rises on the horizon.
Shape-sound method
Both pictographic characters and cognitive characters can see the meaning of words from their shapes, but they can't read the sound. Therefore, the pictophonetic method was created to create Chinese characters. Match sounds representing sounds with meanings representing shapes to form many new words. Example: the word "dad" is a combination of the phonetic word "ba" and the phenotypic word "father"; The word "Ba" is a combination of "Ba" and "++". There are more and more such figures. On the whole, pictophonetic characters account for 90% of Chinese characters. The formation and development of Chinese characters have become an important tool for people to think about each other and meet the needs of human society.
Development history of Chinese characters
[Author: anonymous]
Chinese characters are unique to our Chinese nation and a symbol of Chinese civilization. In our daily life, we can see it anytime and anywhere. It can be said that where there are China people, there are Chinese characters. However, do you know how Chinese characters developed? Here, I will introduce the history of Chinese characters.
There is a legend that in the period of the Yellow Emperor a long time ago, the Yellow Emperor ordered his courtier Cang Xie to create characters. Cang Xie is a strange man with eight eyes. He observed all directions with his eight eyes and saw all kinds of things. He simplified the shapes of these things and carved them on tortoise shells and animal bones, which became the earliest writing. This myth is of course absurd, but it also shows the fact that Chinese characters evolved from hieroglyphics.
In the primitive times tens of thousands of years ago, the ancients learned to express themselves in words, and later learned to use gestures, but some things are difficult to express in words and gestures, so someone came up with a method of marking, but there are too many marks and it is easy to forget. Later, they used graphics to express their meaning, such as "the sun" was painted as a circle and "the tree" was painted as a tree shape. This is how the earliest hieroglyphs were produced.
With the passage of time, mankind entered the slave society. At this time, there are more things that need to be recorded in words, and it is too cumbersome to express them with some graphic symbols. So people simplified some pictographs and combined some pictographs into a new text, making it easier for people to understand. For example, combining "man" and "wood" into the word "Hugh" means a person sleeping against a tree. In this way, many Chinese characters have been created, and a new type of Chinese characters-knowing characters has been formed.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, many vassal states appeared on the land of China, and the characters of these vassal states were different, so there was a situation of polysemy, which brought difficulties to cultural exchanges between countries. After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he ordered the unified use of a script-Xiao Zhuan. This kind of writing is much simpler than the previous writing, but it is still a bit cumbersome, so an emergency folk style-official script has gradually emerged. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhong You of Wei created a simpler and more beautiful script-regular script. From then on, Chinese characters established its square shape and began to have a shelf structure. Since then, people have created cursive script, running script and other fonts, and world-famous calligraphers such as Zhong, Wang, Yan, Liu, Su, Huang, Mi and Cai have also appeared. The development of Chinese characters has gradually entered a higher level.
With the development of Chinese characters, the number of Chinese characters is increasing, so there are tools for people to find Chinese characters, such as Shuo Wen Jie Zi, Kangxi Dictionary and so on.
After 1949, with the establishment of New China, Chinese characters ushered in the spring of its development. In the early 1950s, the central government issued a series of notices on the reform of Chinese characters, boldly simplifying some Chinese characters with complicated strokes, so that everyone can read and use Chinese characters, which is undoubtedly a great innovation in the history of Chinese character development.
In modern society, with the rapid development of science, some new changes have taken place in Chinese characters. For example, Chinese characters represent chemical elements and some new things, and many Chinese characters have been given some new meanings. With the emergence of computer technology, how to input Chinese characters into computers has become a new topic. Since 1980s, China has developed a series of Chinese character input methods, such as Pinyin, Wu Bi font, ideographic code and natural code. In order to adapt to the changes of the times, Chinese characters are constantly improving themselves and making great contributions to the development and spread of Chinese culture: 7A686964616FE4893E5B19E3133234303662.
In recent years, some people think that Chinese characters are too complicated, and put forward the plan of "Latinization of Chinese characters", thinking that Chinese characters should take the road of pinyin. But I don't think so, because Chinese characters have stood the test of history for thousands of years and have become the symbol of the Chinese nation and China people. We should not abandon Chinese characters, but develop and improve them, so that they can continue in the 2 1 century. There is a legend about the origin of Chinese characters. Ancient books in China say that Chinese characters were created by Cang Xie. It is said that Cang Xie saw a strange-looking god, and the cave looked like a painted picture. Cang Xie painted his own image and created words. Some ancient books say that after Cang Xie created the characters, he let the cat out of the bag, the sky fell, and ghosts and gods cried every night. There is also a legend that Cang Xie observed the footprints of birds and animals printed on the mud, which aroused his paranormal feeling of reading ci. This rumor is not reliable. Writing is the need of the broad masses of people to live realistically, and it has been gradually enriched and developed after a long period of social practice.
1autumn of 954 to1summer of 957, ancient laborers in China excavated Banpo site (now north of banpo village, the eastern suburb of Xi city) for many times, and found that as early as 6,000 years ago, people in the left and right Banpo created illegal symbols, paintings, sculptures and decorations with literary nature in their long-term life and production practice. The carved symbols of Banpo people are mostly left on painted pottery, which can be regarded as original Chinese characters.
In recent years, a number of tombs and tombs (more than 4,500 years ago) have been found in a site in the late Dawenkou culture of Lingyang River in Juxian County, Shandong Province, and a large number of cultural relics have been unearthed. On some pottery statues, a word like a picture is engraved, and more than one word 10 has been published. These characters are drawn according to the shape of objects, so they are called "hieroglyphics". The structure of characters is similar to hieroglyphics in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, but it predates Oracle Bone Inscriptions by 1000 years. So "Pictograph" is the earliest written language in China, which has the characteristics of written language.
There are three forms of Chinese characters:
method of images
This is the earliest way to form Chinese characters, creating the most primitive characters, such as "day", "month", "water" and "cow". After gradual evolution, these hieroglyphics all changed the form of the original characters and later became regular characters. Some strokes have been reduced, and some strokes have been added, from irregular characters to regular characters.
Default method
Compared with pictographic characters, pictographic characters are easier to see the principle of word-making, but they can't express the idea of drawing. The ancients created another word-formation method-the method of knowing meaning. It is to use different symbols or "hieroglyphics" plus some symbols to express the idea of drawing an image. Example: Write the word "bright", which means that "day" and "month" bring light and brightness. The word "Dan" is written as (meaning that the sun rises on the horizon.
Shape-sound method
Both pictographic characters and cognitive characters can see the meaning of words from their shapes, but they can't read the sound. Therefore, the pictophonetic method was created to create Chinese characters. Match sounds representing sounds with meanings representing shapes to form many new words. Example: the word "dad" is a combination of the phonetic word "ba" and the phenotypic word "father"; The word "Ba" is a combination of "Ba" and "++". There are more and more such figures. On the whole, pictophonetic characters account for 90% of Chinese characters. The formation and development of Chinese characters have become an important tool for people to think about each other and meet the needs of human society.
Development history of Chinese characters
[Author: anonymous]
Chinese characters are unique to our Chinese nation and a symbol of Chinese civilization. In our daily life, we can see it anytime and anywhere. It can be said that where there are China people, there are Chinese characters. However, do you know how Chinese characters developed? Here, I will introduce the history of Chinese characters.
There is a legend that in the period of the Yellow Emperor a long time ago, the Yellow Emperor ordered his courtier Cang Xie to create characters. Cang Xie is a strange man with eight eyes. He observed all directions with his eight eyes and saw all kinds of things. He simplified the shapes of these things and carved them on tortoise shells and animal bones, which became the earliest writing. This myth is of course absurd, but it also shows the fact that Chinese characters evolved from hieroglyphics.
In the primitive times tens of thousands of years ago, the ancients learned to express themselves in words, and later learned to use gestures, but some things are difficult to express in words and gestures, so someone came up with a method of marking, but there are too many marks and it is easy to forget. Later, they used graphics to express their meaning, such as "the sun" was painted as a circle and "the tree" was painted as a tree shape. This is how the earliest hieroglyphs were produced.
With the passage of time, mankind entered the slave society. At this time, there are more things that need to be recorded in words, and it is too cumbersome to express them with some graphic symbols. So people simplified some pictographs and combined some pictographs into a new text, making it easier for people to understand. For example, combining "man" and "wood" into the word "Hugh" means a person sleeping against a tree. In this way, many Chinese characters have been created, and a new type of Chinese characters-knowing characters has been formed.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, many vassal states appeared on the land of China, and the characters of these vassal states were different, so there was a situation of polysemy, which brought difficulties to cultural exchanges between countries. After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he ordered the unified use of a script-Xiao Zhuan. This kind of writing is much simpler than the previous writing, but it is still a bit cumbersome, so an emergency folk style-official script has gradually emerged. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhong You of Wei created a simpler and more beautiful script-regular script. From then on, Chinese characters established its square shape and began to have a shelf structure. Since then, people have created cursive script, running script and other fonts, and world-famous calligraphers such as Zhong, Wang, Yan, Liu, Su, Huang, Mi and Cai have also appeared. The development of Chinese characters has gradually entered a higher level.
With the development of Chinese characters, the number of Chinese characters is increasing, so there are tools for people to find Chinese characters, such as Shuo Wen Jie Zi, Kangxi Dictionary and so on.
After 1949, with the establishment of New China, Chinese characters ushered in the spring of its development. In the early 1950s, the central government issued a series of notices on the reform of Chinese characters, boldly simplifying some Chinese characters with complicated strokes, so that everyone can read and use Chinese characters, which is undoubtedly a great innovation in the history of Chinese character development.
In modern society, with the rapid development of science, some new changes have taken place in Chinese characters. For example, Chinese characters represent chemical elements and some new things, and many Chinese characters have been given some new meanings. With the emergence of computer technology, how to input Chinese characters into computers has become a new topic. Since 1980s, China has developed a series of Chinese character input methods, such as Pinyin, Wu Bi font, ideographic code and natural code. In order to adapt to the changes of the times, Chinese characters are constantly improving themselves and making great contributions to the development and spread of Chinese culture: 7A686964616FE4893E5B19E3133234303662.
In recent years, some people think that Chinese characters are too complicated, and put forward the plan of "Latinization of Chinese characters", thinking that Chinese characters should take the road of pinyin. But I don't think so, because Chinese characters have stood the test of history for thousands of years and have become the symbol of the Chinese nation and China people. We should not abandon Chinese characters, but develop and improve them, so that they can continue in the 2 1 century. There is a legend about the origin of Chinese characters. Ancient books in China say that Chinese characters were created by Cang Xie. It is said that Cang Xie saw a strange-looking god, and the cave looked like a painted picture. Cang Xie painted his own image and created words. Some ancient books say that after Cang Xie created the characters, he let the cat out of the bag, the sky fell, and ghosts and gods cried every night. There is also a legend that Cang Xie observed the footprints of birds and animals printed on the mud, which aroused his paranormal feeling of reading ci. This rumor is not reliable. Writing is the need of the broad masses of people to live realistically, and it has been gradually enriched and developed after a long period of social practice.
1autumn of 954 to1summer of 957, ancient laborers in China excavated Banpo site (now north of banpo village, the eastern suburb of Xi city) for many times, and found that as early as 6,000 years ago, people in the left and right Banpo created illegal symbols, paintings, sculptures and decorations with literary nature in their long-term life and production practice. The carved symbols of Banpo people are mostly left on painted pottery, which can be regarded as original Chinese characters.
In recent years, a number of tombs and tombs (more than 4,500 years ago) have been found in a site in the late Dawenkou culture of Lingyang River in Juxian County, Shandong Province, and a large number of cultural relics have been unearthed. On some pottery statues, a word like a picture is engraved, and more than one word 10 has been published. These characters are drawn according to the shape of objects, so they are called "hieroglyphics". The structure of characters is similar to hieroglyphics in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, but it predates Oracle Bone Inscriptions by 1000 years. So "Pictograph" is the earliest written language in China, which has the characteristics of written language.
There are three forms of Chinese characters:
method of images
This is the earliest way to form Chinese characters, creating the most primitive characters, such as "day", "month", "water" and "cow". After gradual evolution, these hieroglyphics all changed the form of the original characters and later became regular characters. Some strokes have been reduced, and some strokes have been added, from irregular characters to regular characters.
Default method
Compared with pictographic characters, pictographic characters are easier to see the principle of word-making, but they can't express the idea of drawing. The ancients created another word-formation method-the method of knowing meaning. It is to use different symbols or "hieroglyphics" plus some symbols to express the idea of drawing an image. Example: Write the word "bright", which means that "day" and "month" bring light and brightness. The word "Dan" is written as (meaning that the sun rises on the horizon.
Shape-sound method
Both pictographic characters and cognitive characters can see the meaning of words from their shapes, but they can't read the sound. Therefore, the pictophonetic method was created to create Chinese characters. Match sounds representing sounds with meanings representing shapes to form many new words. Example: the word "dad" is a combination of the phonetic word "ba" and the phenotypic word "father"; The word "Ba" is a combination of "Ba" and "++". There are more and more such figures. On the whole, pictophonetic characters account for 90% of Chinese characters. The formation and development of Chinese characters have become an important tool for people to think about each other and meet the needs of human society.
Development history of Chinese characters
[Author: anonymous]
Chinese characters are unique to our Chinese nation and a symbol of Chinese civilization. In our daily life, we can see it anytime and anywhere. It can be said that where there are China people, there are Chinese characters. However, do you know how Chinese characters developed? Here, I will introduce the history of Chinese characters.
There is a legend that in the period of the Yellow Emperor a long time ago, the Yellow Emperor ordered his courtier Cang Xie to create characters. Cang Xie is a strange man with eight eyes. He observed all directions with his eight eyes and saw all kinds of things. He simplified the shapes of these things and carved them on tortoise shells and animal bones, which became the earliest writing. This myth is of course absurd, but it also shows the fact that Chinese characters evolved from hieroglyphics.
In the primitive times tens of thousands of years ago, the ancients learned to express themselves in words, and later learned to use gestures, but some things are difficult to express in words and gestures, so someone came up with a method of marking, but there are too many marks and it is easy to forget. Later, they used graphics to express their meaning, such as "the sun" was painted as a circle and "the tree" was painted as a tree. This is how the earliest hieroglyphs were produced.
With the passage of time, mankind entered the slave society. At this time, there are more things that need to be recorded in words, and it is too cumbersome to express them with some graphic symbols. So people simplified some pictographs and combined some pictographs into a new text, making it easier for people to understand. For example, combining "man" and "wood" into the word "Hugh" means a person sleeping against a tree. In this way, many Chinese characters have been created, and a new type of Chinese characters-knowing characters has been formed.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, many vassal states appeared on the land of China, and the characters of these vassal states were different, so there was a situation of polysemy, which brought difficulties to cultural exchanges between countries. After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he ordered the unified use of a script-Xiao Zhuan. This kind of writing is much simpler than the previous writing, but it is still a bit cumbersome, so an emergency folk style-official script has gradually emerged. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhong You of Wei created a simpler and more beautiful script-regular script. From then on, Chinese characters established its square shape and began to have a shelf structure. Since then, people have created cursive script, running script and other fonts, and world-famous calligraphers such as Zhong, Wang, Yan, Liu, Su, Huang, Mi and Cai have also appeared. The development of Chinese characters has gradually entered a higher level.
With the development of Chinese characters, the number of Chinese characters is increasing, so there are tools for people to find Chinese characters, such as Shuo Wen Jie Zi, Kangxi Dictionary and so on.
After 1949, with the establishment of New China, Chinese characters ushered in the spring of its development. In the early 1950s, the central government issued a series of notices on the reform of Chinese characters, boldly simplifying some Chinese characters with complicated strokes, so that everyone can read and use Chinese characters, which is undoubtedly a great innovation in the history of Chinese character development.
In modern society, with the rapid development of science, some new changes have taken place in Chinese characters. For example, Chinese characters represent chemical elements and some new things, and many Chinese characters have been given some new meanings. With the emergence of computer technology, how to input Chinese characters into computers has become a new topic. Since 1980s, China has developed a series of Chinese character input methods, such as Pinyin, Wu Bi font, ideographic code and natural code. In order to adapt to the changes of the times, Chinese characters are constantly improving themselves and making great contributions to the development and spread of Chinese culture: 7A686964616FE4893E5B19E3133234303662.
In recent years, some people think that Chinese characters are too complicated, and put forward the plan of "Latinization of Chinese characters", thinking that Chinese characters should take the road of pinyin. But I don't think so, because Chinese characters have stood the test of history for thousands of years and have become the symbol of the Chinese nation and China people. We should not abandon Chinese characters, but develop and improve them so that they will continue to exist in the 2 1 century.
The origin of Chinese characters
From the ancient legend of Cangjie's word-making to the discovery of Oracle Bone Inscriptions more than 65,438,000 years ago, China scholars have been trying to uncover the mystery of the origin of Chinese characters.
There are various opinions about the origin of Chinese characters in China ancient literature, such as "knot rope theory", "eight diagrams theory", "picture theory" and "calligraphy contract theory". In ancient books, there is also a general record of the legend of Cang Xie, the historian of the Yellow Emperor. Modern scholars believe that systematic writing tools cannot be completely created by one person. If Cang Xie really exists, he should be the organizer or publisher of writing knowledge.
The earliest carved symbols were more than 8000 years ago.
In recent decades, Chinese archaeologists have published a series of unearthed materials about the origin of Chinese characters earlier than Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins. These materials mainly refer to the carved paintings or painted symbols that appeared on pottery in the late primitive society and early historical society, and also include a few symbols engraved on Oracle Bone Inscriptions, jade and stone tools. It can be said that they provide a new basis for explaining the origin of Chinese characters.