2. Historically, Chinese characters have been borrowed by neighboring countries and nationalities to record different languages.
3. Chinese characters have played an extremely important historical role in safeguarding Chinese national unity, creating and prospering national economy and culture, consolidating and developing national unity and spreading Chinese traditional civilization to the outside world.
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The Origin and Evolution of Chinese Characters
Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "Cangjie creates characters".
Cang Xie is very clever. Since he tied the rope, he has been studying more complicated ways to remember things. Then, the image notes are studied, and hieroglyphs are gradually produced. As for the legend of Cang Xie, it is cultural knowledge descended from heaven to improve the life skills of primitive people. In order to be accepted by people at that time, hieroglyphics were first used, and then gradually evolved into modern characters.
The origin of Chinese characters is an abstract square symbol, represented by the carved symbols on painted pottery at Dadiwan site in Gansu Province. The other is the hieroglyphic symbol of the zodiac represented by Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the site of Jiahu, Henan. The former evolved into a series of carved symbols on Jiangzhai Village in Lintong, Xi 'an Banpo, while the latter developed into images on Dawenkou pottery.
Chinese characters are gradually accumulated by scattered and individual characters, and then manually standardized after reaching a certain number, becoming a writing system. According to research, the original Chinese characters came into being in the middle of Neolithic Age, and it took about 2600 years to develop into a preliminary writing system.
The written history of China can be traced back to 6000 years ago. After 6000 years' history, the evolution of Chinese characters in China can be simply summarized into five parts: sound, shape, image, number and reason, and the evolution process is: Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscription, seal script, official script, regular script, running script and cursive script.
As the language of the Chinese nation, Chinese characters contain thousands of years of cultural connotations and reflect the national spirit of our country.