Cang Xie's native place, according to "Wan Xing Tong Pu" Volume 52: It is recorded that "in ancient times, there were Cang Xie people, Nanle Wucun people, born with four eyes, and they were historians of Xuanyuan Huangdi." Cang Xie, a native of Nanle Wucun, was born with four eyes. He is the official history of Xuanyuan Huangdi and began to use words instead of tying politics.
There are many monuments in memory of Cang Xie in China, including Cang Xie Ridge, Cangjie Temple and Word-making Platform. Among the numerous Cang Xie and its relics, four were found in the Han Dynasty: Nanle, Yucheng, Kaifeng and Baishui, Shaanxi.
Legend has it that Cang Xie was born with "two eyes and four eyes". There are only nine heavy-eyed people in China history books, such as Yu Shun, Cang Xie, Xiang Yu, Zhong Er, Gao Yang, Lv Guang, Yu Zhuo, Guan Yu and Li Yu.
It is said that Cang Xie "began to change the book contract into a rope". Before that, people tied knots to keep records, that is, tied big knots, tied small knots, and connected things into a string. Later, it was developed to carve symbols on wood and bamboo with a knife as notes. With the development of history and gradual civilization, things are complicated and there are many famous things. The knotting and carving methods of wood are far from meeting the needs, and there is an urgent need to create words. The Yellow Emperor was a period of numerous inventions in ancient times. At that time, not only sericulture was invented, but also boats, carts, bows, mirrors, cooking pots and retort were invented. Under the influence of these inventions, Cang Xie was determined to create a kind of writing.
One year, Cang Xie traveled to the south and was inspired by the "sheep's hoof print".
Cang Xie thought about it day and night, observed everywhere, and saw the distribution of stars in the sky, the appearance of mountains and rivers on the ground, the traces of birds, animals, insects and fish, the shapes of plants and tools, described and painted, created various symbols, and set the meaning represented by each symbol. According to his own mind, he pieced together several paragraphs with symbols and showed them to people. After his explanation, he also understood. Cang Xie called this symbol "Zi".
The birth of Chinese characters in the process of word creation is not the result of a single person, but the result of the long-term cumulative development of our ancestors. Modern archaeology has found tortoise bone carving symbols with characters in Shang Dynasty more than 3,600 years ago, Wen Tao from about 4,000 years ago to 7,000 years ago, and Oracle Bone Inscriptions from about 7,000 years ago to 10000 years ago. The legend of Cangjie's word-making handed down shows that Cang Xie should have made a particularly significant contribution to the development of Chinese characters, and he may be a master of sorting out Chinese characters.
There is a legend in history that Cang Xie is a historian of the Yellow Emperor. After the Yellow Emperor unified China, he felt that taking notes by knotting was far from meeting the requirements, so he ordered the historian Cang Xie to find a way to create words. Then, Cang Xie built a house on the high platform on the south bank of Wei River, settled down and devoted himself to writing. However, he thought hard for a long time and didn't say anything. As luck would have it, one day, while Cang Xie was thinking, he saw a phoenix flying in the sky with something in its mouth right in front of Cang Xie. Cang Xie picked it up and saw a hoofprint on it, but Cang Xie couldn't recognize it, so he asked a hunter who happened to come. The hunter looked at it and said, "This is the hoofprint of a brave dog, which is different from that of other wild animals. I know the footprints of other wild animals at a glance. " Cang Xie was encouraged by the hunter's words. He believes that everything has its own characteristics. If we can grasp the characteristics of things and draw images, everyone can know them. Isn't this a sentence? Since then, Cang Xie has carefully observed the characteristics of various things, such as the sun, moon, stars, clouds, mountains, rivers, lakes and oceans, as well as various animals and birds, and applied utensils, and drew graphics according to their characteristics, creating many hieroglyphs. As time went on, Cang Xie made more words. Cang Xie dedicated these hieroglyphs he made to the Yellow Emperor, who was very happy. He immediately called the chiefs of Kyushu and asked Cang Xie to teach them these hieroglyphs, so these hieroglyphs began to be used. In order to commemorate Cang Xie's contribution to word-making, later generations called the place where words were made in South Cang Xie, Xinzheng County, Henan Province "Phoenix Bookstore", and a temple was built here in the Song Dynasty, named "Fengtai Temple".
[What did Cang Xie say? 】 【 pale 】 interpretation:
Self-improvement and shelter are the places for Nishan's friends.
Grass and rice are cut together, begging young children to leave each other.
Learn from thunder, shelter from the rain, and correct uncle.
Ice beads.
[Cang] Interpretation:
Physiological changes, need shelter. So Nishan is a good place to provide for the aged and die. [A sense of security for the elderly]
Weeds are cut together with crops. Please ask my youngest son for help. [powerful and useful]
Learn to use farm tools and learn to take water to irrigate the land. The child pestered his uncle to play with the red ribbon on his weapon. [young and strong]
The content of Cang Jian Shu is consistent with the social situation before Dayu mentioned in [Li Ji Li Yun]: "The trip to the avenue is also for the public ... so that the elderly can become strong and useful, and the young can grow up. ......
"Great Harmony" is the theory of "Great Harmony" pursued and yearned for by Chinese people with lofty ideals for more than 2,000 years from Confucius to Sun Yat-sen, which originated from the ancient Cang Xie Book.
The Book of Cang Xie is the first book in the world. I hope that all the scholars in the world will read Cang Xie's books, so that our forefathers' ideal of a world of great harmony will blossom and bear fruit in our generation, so that China can truly realize its grand ambition of providing for the old, being strong and useful, and being young and strong, and show its magnificent glory for 5,000 years! Finally, I attach the explanation on the Grand View Post of the Song Dynasty to the following. Without the initial exploration of predecessors, there would be no final discovery of this unknown boy. Cang Xie's short 28-word book bears witness to the 5,000-year history of Chinese civilization. It is easy to understand, extensive and profound, and it is a rare artistic treasure for human beings.
When Daguan Post was reprinted, the 28-word Cang Xie book was translated into "Wu Si A and B, the first * * * friend, stopped in the world, became famous in the world, left their homes, was honored by Chishui, and was attacked by Mao Ge."