The Japanese have always been conceited, but they are particularly humble in front of Chinese literature. Not only did they strive to absorb the essence of Chinese characters in their own national writings, but they also held friendly cultural exchanges between China and Japan time and time again - the protagonists of which were calligraphy works with Chinese characters. It is said that the Japanese people once held a beauty pageant for Han'an, and the winner was " The word "dream" is used as the word "dream", and the selected beauties also have the word "xue, rou" and so on. The Japanese’s fanatical obsession with Chinese characters can be seen in general. The sounds, shapes and meanings of Chinese characters all have unique charm, which is enough to make everyone who comes close to her feel relaxed and happy and forget themselves.
Her pronunciation is unpredictable and extremely musical. The four tones plus soft tones, changes of tone, etc. are already complex enough. We also need to pay attention to lightness, weight, slowness, speed, suppression, elevation, pause, and frustration. The knowledge here is profound! For the same article, some people read it sonorously and powerfully, some people read it plainly, some people read it pleasantly and smoothly, and some people read it vaguely. If you want the listener to hear the beauty of Chinese characters from your mouth, you really need to put in a lot of effort.
I once listened to a famous drama actor reading "Rain Alley" by Dai Wangshu. It was definitely a heart-warming experience; the gentle tone led to the hazy alley with dim lights. The slightly melancholy hoarseness is the remembrance of Ruyan's past events that are constantly cut and confused, and the vague sobs bring back the dust-laden past events deep in the hearts of many lovers. After reading the poem, the listener can't help but burst into tears. Ripple...
The beauty of Chinese characters is equally irresistible. The outstanding calligraphers of the past dynasties are as brilliant as stars, each with his or her own style. Wang Xizhi is elegant and handsome; Yan Zhenqing is rough and bold; Liu Gongquan is gorgeous and deft... If the famous mountains and rivers are missing the inscriptions of calligraphers, the world will lose a bit of admiration; if the small bridges and flowing water are offended by the "calligraphy treasures" of famous calligraphers, they will become famous. Spread far and wide. No wonder every tourist attraction forgets to write sentences such as "In XX years, the great calligrapher XXX saw this beautiful scene and became so excited that he splashed ink and wrote the characters XXX". There is an unknown hill in Xuyi, my hometown. Thanks to the inscription "No. 1 Mountain" by Nanning calligrapher Mi Di, in recent years many tourists from other places have come here, making the small county quite proud.
All kinds of artistic characters add fuel to the beauty of Chinese characters. Singer Jiang Tao's MTV work "Creation" uses a computer to design lyrics and fonts that are unique and very personal. These characters are either flat or round, both solemn and harmonious, suitable for movement and stillness, well-proportioned, ever-changing and wonderful. The ancient Chinese characters are coated with the brilliance of modern technology, making them even more charming.
The shapes and meanings of Chinese characters are inextricably linked, enough to make people with a little imagination develop endless reveries: the word "laugh" means lively and cute; the word "cry" means frowning; the word "lofty" means a sad face. ", the height of the mountain suddenly appeared in front of me; "charming", the girl's beauty sneaked into my heart. No wonder the Chinese love to connect "calligraphy and painting" together. Chinese characters can be incorporated into paintings.
Different cultural levels and different life experiences lead to different understandings of the meanings of Chinese characters. My experience watching "Dream of Red Mansions" is definitely different from that of writers watching "Dream of Red Mansions". This is why some people highly praise the same literary work and others treat it like dirt. Ordinary words, such as "You are a big bad guy!" may be the childish talk of a child, or the intimate teasing of a couple; it may be the sharp rebuke of a passerby, or it may be the deep self-blame of someone's conscience after discovering it. . If you look carefully, you will find that the meanings and mysteries of Chinese characters are endless.
The beauty of Chinese characters lies in the fact that she only lifts her mysterious veil to those who truly love her and understand her. You see, tens of thousands of Chinese characters are like tens of thousands of little magic blocks. Under the "insight" of the language master, they suddenly become a shocking and immortal masterpiece, sometimes they become a fresh and meaningful article, and sometimes they become a low-pitched song. , sometimes there are strong winds and showers, sometimes there are flowing clouds and flowing water, and sometimes we are about to say goodbye... And it is precisely because we are deeply attracted by these little magic blocks that we "sleep without knowing the way back" and that we "disappear for Yi". "People are haggard"!
In the dead of night, I burn the lamp and read at night. Where you understand, you smile unconsciously.
Chinese characters are a type of writing unique to our Chinese nation and a symbol of Chinese civilization. In our daily life, we can see it everywhere. It can be said that wherever there are Chinese people, there must be Chinese characters.
However, do you know how Chinese characters developed? Here, I will introduce the history of Chinese characters.
There is such a legend that during the Yellow Emperor's period a long time ago, the Yellow Emperor ordered his minister Cangjie to create writing. Cangjie was a weirdo with eight eyes. He used his eight eyes to observe all directions and saw He simplified the shapes of various things and carved them on turtle shells and animal bones, which became the earliest writing. This myth is of course absurd, but it also illustrates the fact that Chinese characters evolved from pictographs.
In the primitive era tens of thousands of years ago, ancient people learned to use language to express their meaning, and later learned to use gestures. However, some things were difficult to express using language and gestures, so someone came up with the idea The method of making marks is easy to forget if there are too many marks. Later, graphics were used to express meanings. For example, "sun" was drawn in the shape of a circle, and "tree" was drawn in the shape of a tree. This is how the earliest hieroglyphs were produced. .
As time went by, humans entered a slave society. At this time, there are more things that need to be recorded in words, and it seems too cumbersome to just use some graphic symbols to represent them. So people simplified some pictographic characters and combined some pictographic characters to form a new type of writing, which was easier for people to understand. For example, by combining "人" and "木", it becomes the word "xiu", which means a person sleeping against a tree. In this way, many characters were created, forming a new type of Chinese characters - ideographic characters.
In 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 where one word had multiple meanings and many words had one meaning. This has brought difficulties to cultural exchanges between countries. After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he ordered the unified use of one script - Xiaozhuan - across the country. This kind of writing is much simpler than the previous writing, but it is still a bit cumbersome, so an emergency popular style - official script - gradually emerged among the people. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhong Yao of Wei State created a simpler and more beautiful writing style - regular script. From then on, Chinese characters established their square shape and began to have a shelf structure. Later, people successively created various fonts such as cursive script and running script, and world-famous calligraphers such as "Zhong Wang", "Yan Liu", "Su Huang, Mi Cai" emerged. The development of Chinese characters has gradually entered a higher level.
With the development of Chinese characters, the number of Chinese characters is also increasing, so a tool has emerged to facilitate people to find Chinese characters, such as "Shuowen Jiezi", "Kangxi Dictionary", etc. wait.
After 1949, with the establishment of New China, Chinese characters ushered in the spring of its development. In the early 1950s, the central government promulgated a series of notices on character reform, boldly simplifying some Chinese characters with too complicated strokes, so that everyone can read and use Chinese characters, which is undoubtedly a great initiative in the history of the development of Chinese characters. .
In modern society, with the rapid development of science, Chinese characters have also undergone some new changes. For example, Chinese characters representing chemical elements and Chinese characters representing some new things are constantly appearing, and many Chinese characters have also been given some new meanings. With the emergence of computer technology, how to input Chinese characters into computers has become a new topic. After the 1980s, my country developed a series of Chinese character input methods, such as Pinyin, Wubi font, graphic code, natural code, etc. In order to adapt to the changes of the times, Chinese characters are constantly improving and perfecting themselves, making great contributions to the development and spread of Chinese culture.
In recent years, some people believe that Chinese characters are too complex and have proposed the "Latinization of characters" plan, believing that Chinese characters should follow the path of pinyinization. But I don’t think so, because Chinese characters have gone through thousands of years of historical testing and have become a symbol of the Chinese nation and a sign of the Chinese people. We should not abandon Chinese characters, but should develop Chinese characters and improve them. , let Chinese characters continue to exist in the 21st century.