Stories are generally closely related to the production and life of primitive humans. They are eager to know nature, so they take themselves as the basis and imagine that everything in the world has life and will like people. The following is a story about the origin of Chinese characters that I have compiled for your reference, hoping to help friends in need.
the origin of Chinese characters
China people probably noticed the origin of their own characters during the Warring States Period. Some people think that tying knots is the origin of Chinese characters. However, many people disagree that knotting rope is a method used to keep notes in ancient times, and almost all primitive peoples have used it. Even if it is a note, it is not a word after all. Some people think that China's literary origin began with gossip. In addition, there is still a saying that "the river map and Luo Shu evolved into words". The most popular saying in ancient China is that Cang Xie created characters, which has been circulated among scholars at least in the late Warring States period. Generally speaking, the development of characters has a process from multi-head to single-head, from simple to complex to simple, from ideographic to phonological. Therefore, many people have suggested that China's writing was created collectively by the working people, sorted out and developed through "witchcraft" and "history". As for "witch" and "history", who are they? There are different speculations.
At present, there is a common saying in China historians that the source of China's characters began in the Yin and Shang Dynasties. However, there are many people who have a little disagreement. According to some people, Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the Shang Dynasty was very mature. And everything always has a mature process from occurrence to development. Therefore, the beginning year of China characters can be pushed forward. As for how many years? Some advocate pushing for at least a thousand years; Some advocate pushing it to the end of summer; Others argue that before pushing Zhixia, they have their own opinions.
among archaeologists, there is disagreement about the origin of China's writing. Among them, Guo Moruo is the most outstanding one. He pointed out in the article "Dialectical Development of Ancient Chinese Characters": "When did the origin of Chinese characters begin? I think this can be taken as an indicator from the age of the banpo village site in Xi' an. " "The Banpo site is about 6, years old." "Banpo site is a typical Yangshao culture in the Neolithic Age", "Banpo painted pottery often has some simple descriptions of similar words, which are quite different from the patterns on the utensils." "Although the meaning of description has not been clarified yet, it is undoubtedly a symbol with a literal nature." "It can definitely be said that it is the origin of China characters, or the jié legacy of China's original characters." According to this, China civilization should be counted as nearly 6, years. When did China's writing begin? When did the oldest writing come into being? What do they mean? It is still in the contention of a hundred schools of thought, and it seems that it still needs a lot of materials to prove it! At present, the earliest recognized characters in the world are cuneiform characters that appeared in the ancient Middle East, dating from 5, to 6, years ago. However, some symbols carved on tortoise shells found in Jia Hu, Henan Province date back to 8, years.
short story of Chinese characters
once upon a time, there was a private school gentleman named Zhang, who was extremely clever. Once, a rich man hired a teacher for his son and wrote a notice: "We want to hire a teacher in this house, but the food is simple and the remuneration is meager." Many gentlemen looked at it, shook their heads and left. They knew that the rich man was a famous local miser. I didn't know that this Mr. Zhang held the notice, but smiled and applied for the cloud. Everyone says Mr. Wang is "possessed by ghosts." Mr. Zhang only said: "Wait and see!" He came to the rich man's house.
The rich man was glad to see the bait. When talking about the treatment, he was worried that Mr. Wang would change his mind, so he asked the bank students to make a written agreement and sign it himself.
Without hesitation, Mr. Wang wrote:
"There can be no rice noodles, no chickens and ducks, no fish and no money."
The rich man was filled with joy after reading it. He thought it was a big bargain, so he and his husband put their fingerprints on the written evidence and left with a smile.
more than ten days have passed, and there are only miscellaneous grains and side dishes on Mr. Wang's dining table. Mr. Wang was really hard to swallow, so he called the rich man. Realizing what Mr. Wang was going to say, the rich man smiled and said, "Look, there is your handprint on this agreement!" " Mr. Wang pretended to be surprised and said seriously, "Oh, let me see." The rich man handed over the contract, and the gentleman said, "Listen carefully-'Without rice, noodles are ok; Without chickens, ducks can also be used; No fish, meat can be'. " The rich man was dumbfounded and opened his eyes to see the first word on it. Indeed, I haven't changed a word The rich man pulled up his face, but he was helpless and had to admit that he was unlucky. I am still glad that I have added a few meat dishes to the dinner table. Although I pay attention to eating, I don't have to pay tuition.
unexpectedly, at the end of the year, Mr. Wang settled accounts with the rich man and demanded to pay the tuition. When the rich man refused to give it, the two men argued, so they took the written evidence and went to the county government to judge together. The county magistrate asked the reason, and asked the gentleman to take out the written evidence and read it again. After listening to the last sentence, the county magistrate was shocked and shouted at the rich man: "You unruly, how dare you rely on Mr.' s tuition!" Ordered the rich man to pay the tuition to his husband in person.
"吆吆", "吆" and "吆", "吆" and "吆"
"吆", "吆" and "吆" Among them, "Bi" and "Mi" are almost as indistinguishable as twins. However, it is not difficult to distinguish them if we understand that they are all knowing words and carefully analyze their "word-forming principle".
The word "Yun" is pronounced tǔn, with "people" above and "water" below. Together, people float on the water. "People floating on the water" is a kind of floating situation, so the original meaning of "floating" is "floating", such as a board floating on the water and a corpse coming up. It is also extended to "deep frying" (because most foods float on the oil surface when frying), such as "fried fritters", "fried shrimp slices", "fried steamed bread" and "fried peanuts".
the word "Mi" is pronounced cuān, with "In" above and "Water" below, which together mean "Put (something) into (boiling) water". The common meaning of the word "Mian" is a cooking method, in which food is boiled in boiling water, such as "Mian Tang", "Mian Wan Zi" and "Mian Cucumber Slices".
say "京" in dí, with "京" above and "京" below. Together, it means buying rice. "Rice" can be used as a substitute for grain, so "rice" generally refers to "buying (grain)", such as "rice" and "wheat". Tiào, which is the opposite of "吆", is "selling (grain)".
finally, let's make the above analysis into a formula to remember: people (rén) float on the water as tǔn, people (rê n) boil and fry as cuān, and rice (rê n) comes out as tiào (dí), so it's not difficult to judge.
the story of the origin of Chinese characters
In the primitive times tens of thousands of years ago, ancient people learned to express their meaning by language, and later they learned to use gestures. However, some things are difficult to express by language and gestures, so some people came up with a way to make marks, but there are too many marks, which are easy to forget. Later, they used graphics to express their meaning. For example, "the sun" was painted in the shape of a circle, and "the tree" was painted in the shape of a tree.
with the passage of time, human beings have entered the slave society. By this time, there are more things that need to be recorded in writing, and it is too cumbersome to express them with some graphic symbols. So people simplified some pictographs, and combined some pictographs to form a new kind of characters, which makes people easier to understand. For example, combining "man" with "wood" becomes the word "Hugh", which means a person sleeps by leaning against a tree. In this way, many characters have been created, forming a new type of Chinese characters-knowing 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 of polysemy and 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 little cumbersome, so an emergency vulgar style-official script has gradually emerged among the people. In the Three Kingdoms period, Zhong You of Wei created a simpler and more beautiful script-regular script. Since then, Chinese characters have established its square shape and began to have a shelf structure. Since then, people have successively created cursive script, running script and other fonts, and also emerged world-famous calligraphers like Zhong, Wang, Yan, Liu, Su, Huang, Mi and Cai. 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 a tool for people to find Chinese characters has appeared, 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 195s, the central government issued a series of notices on the reform of Chinese characters, which boldly simplified some Chinese characters whose strokes were too complicated, so that everyone could read and use Chinese characters, which was undoubtedly a great pioneering work in the history of the development of Chinese characters.
In modern society, with the rapid development of science, some new changes have taken place in Chinese characters, such as Chinese characters representing 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. After 198s, China has developed a series of Chinese character input methods, such as Pinyin, Wubi font, ideographic code, natural code and so on. 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.
In recent years, some people think that Chinese characters are too complicated, and put forward a scheme 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 gone through thousands of years of historical tests, and have become a symbol of the Chinese nation and a symbol of China people. We should not abandon Chinese characters, but develop and improve them so that they can continue in the 21st century.
someone sent loquat to a county magistrate, but he mistyped loquat as pipa on the gift list. County magistrate laughed; "Loquat is not this pipa, but I hate poor literacy!" A guest answered; "If the pipa can be used as a result, there is an old poet named Pan in the city, whose pen name is Langbo, and he was the chairman of the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Acquaintances and subordinates are both called Chairman Pan. It is also appropriate to call Mr. Langbo and Chairman Langbo on the scene. However, people who meet for the first time often admire the loss of discretion, and one wave at a time, Chairman Lang, makes others get goose bumps.
Some people named their children Yi, wangyi, Li Yi, Sun and Zhao Yi. You can call it aunt's milk whatever you want at home. When you go out to meet your friends, you have to pay attention. Pointing at the child, he said to a man in his fifties, "This is Sun." If the other person doesn't drink too much, he will feel dizzy: where did such a young aunt come from?
someone took his grandson to the street. I met a female colleague named Zhu, and I couldn't respond at the moment. I pulled my grandson over and said, Call grandma Zhu. Grandson is not an oil lamp saver. He immediately said, Grandma Niu. It's over. I'm anxious to live. Actually, just call me grandma.
The most frequently used Chinese characters are pigs, horses, cattle, sheep, dogs, cats, rabbits, fish, shrimps and insects. Once they are homonyms with surnames, you should pay attention to them, especially the words behind them. In a newspaper office, editors are called editors for short, and when they meet someone named Ma Niuyang, they can't simply edit Ma Niuyang. It's disrespectful to scream. Even Hu, making it up?
flowering.
In a lively market, a fish seller shouted, "Fresh fish!" At this time, a bubble gum seller immediately shouted: "bubble gum!" The fish seller listened and said to the sugar seller, "Hey, why did you say my fish was ruined?" The more they quarreled, the more fierce they became. Just then, a bean sprout seller shouted again: "bean sprouts!" A security guard came up and asked, "Who else is quarreling with them?" It happened that an avocado seller shouted, "avocado!" After hearing this, the security guard said, "Well, take the four of you with you!" ......
Story about the origin of Chinese characters
Chinese numerals are divided into uppercase and lowercase, one is lowercase' one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten; The other is capitalized one, two, three, four, five, land, seven, eight, nine and ten. We often use these numbers in our daily life. Not many people can know these figures. I remember that in 1994, the national college entrance examination Chinese test questions had tested this knowledge. As a result, that question became the one with the highest difficulty coefficient in that year. The following is a brief introduction to the ten capital figures of Chinese characters. Please correct me if it is inappropriate.
the capital figures of Chinese characters are: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten. These ten Chinese characters were not directly used to represent numbers after being created by our ancestors.
"Yi, San, Wu" is the earliest character used as capital numerals.
at first, "one" was commonly used as "one", which means single-mindedness. In the Spring and Autumn Period, "one" was used as a number. Such as "Guanzi", "Fox White should change from Yin to Yang, and see you in June."
"San" is a vulgar word for "Shen", which has been commonly used as "San" for a long time, indicating the number of "San". "Zuo Zhuan" has "the system of the former king, and most of them are just one of the participating countries." Later, I don't know when the numeral "Shen" was written as "San".
the original meaning of "Wu" refers to the establishment of the army, with five people as one Wu. Later, it was commonly used as "five", which means the number "five". For example, "Book of Changes": "There are countless changes in participation." "Shen" and "Wu" here are the position figures of yin and yang.
When were "Lu" and "Qi" borrowed as numerals? I consulted many books, but I didn't see any more specific statements. But in Shuo Wen Jie Zi, "Lu" is a pictophonetic character, and its original meaning refers to land; "Qi" is a vulgar character of "lacquer" and also a pictophonetic character. Its original meaning refers to a wooden name.
The five numerals "Er, Si, Ba, Jiu and Shi" were capitalized in the period of Wu Zetian in the Tang Dynasty. These words are pictophonetic characters.
"Er" was originally recognized as a deputy. "Si" starts from the sound of Chang and Yu (yù). Its original meaning refers to decoration and display, and later it is extended to licentiousness. The original meaning of "Ba" refers to a kind of agricultural tool. The Chinese "Urgent Chapter" says: "No teeth are Ba, and teeth are Ba (that is, rake)." "Nine" from jade, long sound, the original meaning refers to the black beautiful stone like jade. Shuo Wen Jie Zi: Nine, the second jade of stone, black. "Pick up" from the hand, chorus, the original meaning is to pick up, pick up from the ground.
It is said that in the era of Wu Zetian, the management of state coffers in various places was chaotic, and many officials who took bribes and perverted the law appeared. In order to strengthen the management of the national treasury, Wu Zetian ordered the relevant departments to unify the numbers of Chinese characters without giving corrupt officials an opportunity to alter the data at will. They found ten words with the same or similar pronunciation and complicated strokes as another way to write ten lowercase numbers. These ten characters become the capital numbers of Chinese characters. Thus, in the era of Wu Zetian, there appeared capitalized numbers of Chinese characters. It should be said that the numbers of Chinese characters are unified and standardized, and uppercase numbers are used instead of lowercase Chinese characters.