Among the characters used in today's world, Chinese characters and Shuishu belong to non-pinyin characters. In human history, the characters earlier than Chinese characters include the script of the nail head in the two rivers valley and the script of the holy book in Egypt, but they have long been extinct, so Chinese characters are the oldest characters at present. There are two types of characters used in the world, namely, non-pinyin characters (Chinese characters and calligraphy) and pinyin characters (other characters). Some people say that Chinese characters are China's five great inventions and a miracle.
Chinese characters are the most widely used characters in the world. According to statistics, the number of people who use Chinese characters and Chinese has reached more than 654.38+06 billion.
Chinese characters are the oldest characters still in use. The earliest Chinese characters that can be seen and read now are Oracle Bone Inscriptions more than 3,000 years ago. This is a fairly mature system of Chinese characters. There is no Chinese character in the world that has gone through vicissitudes and remained young forever. The sacred script of ancient Egypt 5000 years ago is one of the earliest scripts of human beings. But then it died out, and the recorded ancient Egyptian culture was buried deep. Sumerian cuneiform also has a history of 5000 years. But after 330 AD, it also died out. The famous figures who declined in history include Maya and Boromir. Chinese characters not only have a long history, but also have a growing influence.
1. Chinese characters are one of the most beautiful words to read.
Chinese characters have one character and one sound, and each sound is divided into four sounds. Therefore, it is the most beautiful language in the world because of its loud and clear reading, euphemism and beautiful rhythm. Poetry written in this language has a sharp and melodious aesthetic feeling, especially poetry, which pays attention to the level and level. So poetry can be particularly neat, rhythmic and catchy.
Because Chinese characters are pronounced loudly and have no light consonants, the advantages of Chinese characters in "man-machine dialogue" are obvious. Some people predict that 2 1 century will be "the century of Chinese characters".
Chinese characters are also one of the most beautiful characters.
How beautiful is it? The calligraphy art of Chinese characters is the calligraphy art of any other writing method.
Artistic Chinese characters (3) are unparalleled. The following ancient calligraphy works have become priceless.
Chinese characters are easy to recognize.
The field of vision of human eyes is always a surface, not a line, so linear arrangement is difficult to identify; Form a square at a glance. Pinyin text = linear text; Chinese character = box symbol. Chinese characters are more efficient than pinyin characters in reading.
4. Chinese characters are easy to understand and relevant.
Please compare the following Chinese and English words:
Chinese words and English words
cow
Bull bull
Cow cow
Calf calf
milk
Although the meanings of these five English words are all related to cows, writing and reading are "irrelevant". If you want to know them, you have to learn them one by one and remember them one by one. This is irregular. As for Chinese characters, as long as you know the word "cow", you will know that all words with "cow" are related to cows. Because Chinese characters have strong word-formation ability, if you know a certain number of Chinese characters, you will know countless words. Even if new words are produced, they are based on old words, and their meanings are easy to understand.
The disadvantage is that in mathematical physics and other scientific disciplines, the expression is very weak and complicated, such as operation, and only Arabic numerals and symbols can be used.