1. Explanation of the Anyang Character Museum
Explanation of the "History of the Development of Chinese Characters" Exhibition Explanation Dear audience friends, hello everyone! Welcome to the Museum of Chinese Characters and visit our basic display - the history of the development of Chinese characters.
Writing is a symbol that records language and is the carrier of the inheritance of human civilization. Among the languages ????of various countries in the world, Chinese characters are unique with their trinity symbol system of form, sound and meaning. It has a long history and has been uninterrupted since ancient times. This is unmatched by any other characters.
Beautiful Chinese characters show the great wisdom and creativity of the Chinese nation and are a symbol of the broad and profound Chinese culture. Chinese characters not only promote the development of Chinese national culture, but also make an indelible contribution to world civilization.
Here, you will embark on a luxurious journey of Chinese characters. In the vast history, you will witness the entire process of the occurrence, development and evolution of Chinese characters, and appreciate the unique charm of Chinese characters. At the same time, you can also Appreciate the characters of many ethnic minorities in the Chinese nation, which are an important part of Chinese characters. Finally, you can also see the vitality of ancient Chinese characters in the information age.
I believe that your trip will be worthwhile and you will gain spiritual enjoyment while gaining knowledge. What we are entering now is the prologue hall. The first thing that catches your eyes is the altar, the holy fire and the holy light. It symbolizes the blazing holy fire of Chinese characters and ignites the light of ancient Chinese civilization. Under its guidance, the Chinese nation continues to explore , creating a glorious Chinese civilization.
On the east wall, you can see the development of Chinese characters, including carved symbols, oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, seal script, official script, regular script, etc., as well as the characters of ethnic minorities, ***Same It forms a hundred gardens of Chinese characters. On the opposite wall to the west are characters from other civilizations around the world, which complement the Chinese characters.
On the ground, you can also enjoy the flying and flowing Chinese characters. The prologue hall is like a gorgeous prologue to a drama, giving people a sense of shock. When its curtain slowly falls, a visual feast awaits you.
Now we will enter the first part: the origin of Chinese characters from ancient times to the present. Regarding the origin of Chinese characters, the most widely circulated theory in ancient China is the creation of characters by Cangjie (jie). This is a statue of Cangjie from the Ming Dynasty. Cangjie lived in the era of the Yellow Emperor. The Yellow Emperor was one of the Five Emperors in ancient my country. In fact, he should have been a tribal alliance leader in the Central Plains four or five thousand years ago. He united with the Yandi tribe,* Together they defeated the Jiuli tribe who invaded the Central Plains, making the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River the birthplace of Chinese civilization.
Cangjie was the historian of the Yellow Emperor. It is said that he created Chinese characters on the orders of the Yellow Emperor. The traces of the hoof (hang) show the difference between the different principles and the first creation of writing deeds." This means that Cangjie was inspired by the different footprints of birds and animals to create writing.
Cangjie is regarded as the god who created Chinese characters and is honored as the "ancestral character". Its image is also very strange, with four eyes.
The people worshiped him very much. There was more than one tomb in Cangjie alone, and an ancestral temple was built for him. This is a photo of the Cangjie Tomb in Kaifeng, Henan and the Cangjie Tomb and Temple in Baishui, Shaanxi.
In fact, Cangjie is just a legendary figure. There is also debate in the academic circles as to whether he exists. Chinese characters cannot be created by him alone, because writing is social and is established by convention. If there really was Cangjie, he Man, his only achievement is to make the words neat and uniform. So, how did Chinese characters come into being? In recent years, it has become more and more common knowledge that Chinese characters originated from pictures.
In order to record daily activities and events, ancient ancestors used pictures to express them. For example, they drew fish nets and fish when fishing, and drew seedlings when planting. This kind of graphic writing has also appeared in other ancient civilizations, such as cuneiform writing in West Asia and hieroglyphics in Egypt. They are all companions of early human civilization.
With the vigorous development of archeology, in recent decades, most of the carved or painted symbols on pottery have been found in Neolithic sites across the north and south of my country, including a small number of inscriptions on oracle bones. , symbols on jade and stone tools. These symbols include both vivid pictures and abstract note-taking elements, as well as a large number of symbols representing numbers. Their discovery provides an important basis for explaining the origin of Chinese characters.
Our display lists the engraved symbols unearthed from various places that represent different cultures. The culture mentioned here is archaeological culture. In archeology, archaeological materials from different regions but with the same era and cultural characteristics are classified into one cultural type and named after the place where it was first discovered. For example, the Yangshao Culture was the first to be discovered. It was represented by painted pottery in Mianchi Village, Yangshao, Henan. Later, painted pottery from Shaanxi, Gansu and other places during the same period were successively discovered, collectively known as the Yangshao culture.
The earliest engraved symbols discovered in our country were unearthed at the Jiahu site in Wuyang, Henan Province. They belong to the early Peiligan culture, about 9,000 to 7,500 years ago. Symbols are engraved on tortoise shells, bone tools, stone tools and pottery. They all have certain expressive functions and should be regarded as the ancestor of Chinese characters.
The engraved symbols of the Yangshao Culture period in Banpo, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, discovered in 1953, date from 7,000 to 6,000 years ago. There are 27 types, and they are the earliest batch of engraved symbols discovered in the archeology of New China. . The engraved symbols on the pottery of the Dawenkou Culture in Shandong Province 5,000 years ago are mostly images. The more famous ones include "sun", "moon", "mountain", etc. Some of them are often painted with red or added small characters after the engraving. Circles, in order to highlight the function of symbols, may reflect some special social meaning.
In 1992, a fragment of a pottery basin with symbols engraved on it from the Longshan Culture period was unearthed in Zouping, Shandong. It was about 4100-4200 years ago. The symbols were inscribed on the pottery after it was fired. The strokes The slender flow is quite similar to the later cursive script, which is obviously different from the symbols of Yangshao and Dawenkou cultures. A fragment of a flat pottery pot belonging to the late Longshan Culture was discovered in Taosi, Shanxi. The symbol on it was interpreted by writing experts as the character "文", and the circle next to it is the phonetic sound of the modern "元" and "元".
Coincidentally, a piece of pottery from the Xia Dynasty unearthed from the Wangchenggang site in Dengfeng, Henan, is also engraved with symbols similar to ancient Chinese characters. This is the left and right hands making an arching shape, which is one of the ancient Chinese characters. A basic configuration, experts classify it as the word "***". Although there are not many such examples, it is an important signal for the invention of Chinese characters and the arrival of civilized society.
This is an inscription symbol found in Neolithic sites in the Yangtze River Basin, such as Daxi and Qujialing Culture in Hubei. 2. Famous quotes from museums
Motto on the wall of the Children’s Museum in Washington: “I hear and I forget.I see and I remeber.I do and I understand.”
“I hear and I forget. When I arrived, I forgot; when I saw it, I remembered it; when I did it, I understood it.”
Actually, I think we should also add, I think and I can.
What you hear are sounds (simple auditory stimulation), what you see are scenes or graphics (visual and auditory stimulation), and what you do is experience (stimulations of multiple senses such as visual, auditory, and tactile stimulation). Form the experience of success or failure), what has been thought about is the imprint (integrated and internalized with prior knowledge and experience, the more you think about it, the deeper the imprint and the higher the degree of internalization). Psychological research shows: “We can remember 10% of the information we read; we can remember 15% of the information we hear; but we can remember more than 80% of the things we have personally experienced.
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In today’s society, information is like a fleeting smoke. It is really difficult to leave something in the brain, so simply listening can only serve as a temporary memory. Over time, you will inevitably forget it. ; and seeing, by stimulating the image thinking area of ??the right brain, people can remember more information; if it is done once, by mobilizing various organs and senses of the body (not just hearing and vision) ) and the thinking of the brain, what leaves people with memories is not only information, but also experience, whether the experience is successful or failed; if you think, summarize and summarize during the process and later, you can fully Mobilizing the neurons of the brain not only allows information and experience to become a long-term memory, but also can be integrated with the prior knowledge and experience in the brain and internalized into its own knowledge, abilities and character, so that it can be integrated and flexibly responded to External changes. This is the purpose of education. As the famous American psychologist B.F. Skinner said, "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." After the second purification, the last thing left is the essence of education)
Xunzi, an important representative of ancient Chinese Confucianism, also has words with similar meaning in his "Xunzi·Ruxiao":
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Not hearing is worse than seeing, seeing is not as good as knowing, and knowing is not as good as practicing. If you only learn to practice, you will become a sage. Also, benevolence and righteousness should be right and wrong, and words and deeds should be consistent without losing an inch. There is no other way, it is just practice. Therefore, if you hear it but don’t see it, you will be wrong even if you know it; if you see it but don’t know it, even if you know it, you will be wrong; No, even if you are honest, you will be trapped. If you don't hear or see, it is not benevolent, and the way will lead to hundreds of mistakes. - "Xunzi·Ruxiao" 3. Help write a paragraph about the Hubei Provincial Museum
Our Chinese nation has a history of 5,000 years. As the saying goes, "Only Chu has talents." Hubei is the former Chu country and must have a long history and culture. On Labor Day, our whole family came to the Hubei Provincial Museum. Visit the ancient cultural relics and have a deeper understanding of them.
When I arrived at the museum, I was surprised by the sight in front of me. The densely paved blue tile roof and the gray-white walls made the museum look stunning. The architecture of the museum has strong national characteristics. The museum is divided into a main hall, a left hall and a right hall. Each large exhibition hall has 3 to 8 small exhibition halls. It can be seen that its scale is very grand. My mother told me: "Here, you can touch." to the context of history. ”
The first thing we visited was the left hall. A finely crafted sword attracted me. After a closer look, it turned out to be the famous Yue King Goujian Sword. This sword is 55.7 centimeters long and has four swords. The surface is exquisitely decorated, and its blade is extremely sharp. It is still shining brightly today more than 2,000 years ago. This is the Yue King Goujian Sword, known as the "No. 1 Sword in the World". I just saw this extremely gorgeous sword, and there is a quote on the right. The eye-catching camel lamp made me feel how smart and great our ancestors were. The camel lamp is a bronze man riding on a copper camel with a lamp on his head. People can put candles on the lamp for lighting. . This lamp is small and exquisite, cleverly designed and lifelike. It is difficult to create such exquisite handicrafts even now. How did our ancestors do it? Although this bronze lamp has rusted, it is a symbol of our ancestors. The lantern of a man riding a camel is an unforgettable cultural relic for me.
After visiting the left hall, we went to the main hall and the right hall to visit, including Zeng Houji’s chimes, Yunxian human skulls, Famous national treasures such as the Yuan blue and white Four Loves Plum Vase, as well as other ceramics, bronzes, lacquerware, bamboo slips, weapons, ancient musical instruments, gold and jade, ancient calligraphy and painting, ancient coins, etc...
After visiting the museum, I learned a lot of knowledge and came back with a full load! As a modern "Chu person", I feel extremely proud and proud. I believe that we can also create a more brilliant Chu culture and Chinese culture. tomorrow.
4. A 50-word essay introducing the Anyang Museum
The Chinese Characters Museum is located in Anyang City, Henan Province, one of the eight ancient capitals in China and a famous historical and cultural city.
At 8:30 in the morning, we drove to the Writing Museum. From a distance, he looks like a giant, standing in Anyang.
Walking forward, we came to the front of the museum. What was in front of us was a tall and magnificent building. There are 8 large columns and 12 small columns in the front.
The shape of the museum is taken from the hieroglyphic character - Yong. The embossed golden roof with the Taotie pattern and Panxi pattern of the Yin and Shang Dynasties is used in charge of the building. It is a group of buildings with the flavor of the times.
Walking into the museum, you can see the shining golden characters - Museum of Chinese Characters. When I came to the preface hall, I saw four large reliefs. They were carefully painted and the characters were lifelike.
Walk into the No. 1 exhibition hall - a piece of oracle bones that shocks the world. Oracle bone inscriptions have a long history, and I gradually realized the long history of Chinese writing.
Finally, I felt the taste of the ancients in the interactive hall on the second floor. I held a brush in my hand and wrote on rice paper, as if I was a great calligrapher. Among ancient texts, Chinese characters have been passed down to this day and have been carried forward.
The Museum of Chinese Characters is a palace built for Chinese characters by the descendants of the birthplace of Oracle! From then on, Chinese characters had a home of their own.