According to Shuo Wen Jie Zi, Cang Xie was a historian of Samonji in the period of the Yellow Emperor. He was inspired by the footprints of birds and animals, classified them in different ways, collected, sorted out and used them, and played an important role in the creation of Chinese characters, so he was honored as the "sage of Chinese characters".
According to the records in the Jade River Map and Zen Tong Ji, Cang Xie once stood on his own as emperor and was a tribal leader in ancient times. During the reign, he received Luo Shu in Luoshui.
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Chinese characters are one of the oldest characters in the world and have a great influence on the surrounding areas. They are letters of other characters. It is a written symbol for recording events. Formally, it has gradually changed from a figure to a square symbol composed of strokes, so Chinese characters are generally called "square characters".
It has developed from hieroglyphics (ideographs) to phonetic symbols with both sound and meaning, but the overall system is still ideographs. Therefore, Chinese characters have the characteristics of integrating image, sound and meaning. This feature is unique in world writing, so it has unique charm. Chinese characters are the treasures of China's culture for thousands of years.
In the history of the world, Chinese characters, as the mother characters of other later invented languages, such as Vietnam, Korea and Japan, have all recorded languages with Chinese characters. The Japanese still use a mixture of Chinese characters and pseudonyms, and use Chinese characters. Another great invention is to write Chinese characters and read Japanese.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Characters