(1) It is the most economical word formation.
Chinese characters, like magic blocks, have magical word-building ability, and often a word can construct many meaning units (words). For example, a word "white" constitutes more than 100 entries, including "daytime", "idiot", "brandy", "tremella" and "flawless white jade".
In this way, 40,000 commonly used Chinese characters only need 3,000 Chinese characters to construct, and articles that are colorful, colorful, deep as the ocean and wide as the sky can be spelled out, but people's literacy task is very limited.
(2) It is the most associative and intelligent writing.
Chinese characters have a very strong ability to express meaning, just like a painting (pictographs, pictographs, linguistic signs and a lot of radical meanings). If you are used to these words, you can sprout associations and even produce emotions at the moment of witnessing, which will make people's understanding change rapidly.
For example, if you look at the words "wind", "madness", "wind" and "wind" below, you can understand its meaning and imagine the situation it represents. However, people don't feel anything when they witness it. Only by reading the context can they understand its meaning, and their thinking is slow.
(3) He is a unique double-brained figure in the world.
As we all know, language logical thinking develops the left brain, while image emotional life develops the right brain function. The visual language composed of Chinese characters has dual functions, which not only promotes the development of conceptual logical thinking, but also promotes the imagination and emotional activities of the right brain.
Therefore, aphasia patients with left brain injury can't hear or speak, but they can still understand articles written in Chinese characters. It can be seen that Chinese characters play an equally important role in the development of left and right brains.
(4) Chinese characters are the best artistic writing.
Because Chinese characters are pictures and easy to beautify when writing, only the writing of Chinese characters can develop into a "calligraphy art" in the world. Look at Mo Bao, the master of calligraphy. Some are lofty and elegant, some are solemn and dignified, some are vigorous and powerful, and some are delicate and beautiful, showing all kinds of verve temperament, which is an artistic beauty that no other words in the world can express.
Simplification of Chinese characters
Since its birth, Chinese characters have experienced the evolution from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions and seal script to official script, cursive script, regular script and running script. The overall development of China's calligraphy is from complex to simple, and gradually simplified by reducing the number of strokes. But sometimes, in order to express the meaning better and more clearly, there is also the phenomenon of traditional Chinese characters.
In particular, the emergence of papermaking and printing has greatly promoted the development and spread of culture, and characters are increasingly used by the people. There are some simplified characters among the people, and the reduction of strokes of these characters is habitual and has a certain mass base. However, because they were different from the official Chinese characters at that time, they were considered vulgar and broken, and could not be called elegant.
Li Haixia's Study on Folk Characters in Stone Carvings in the Six Dynasties, Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties, Pan Chonggui's Catalogue of Folk Characters in Dunhuang and Collected Works of Dunhuang Changes, Huang Zheng's Dictionary of Folk Characters in Dunhuang, Zhang Yongquan's Study on Folk Characters in Dunhuang and China, and Liu Fu and Li Jiarui's Catalogue of Folk Characters Since Song and Yuan Dynasties list a large number of simple strokes or folk characters used in history.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement gave orthodox status to simplified characters (common characters) popular among the people since the Tang and Song Dynasties, and simplified characters were adopted in the imperial seals, official documents and printed copies of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. According to incomplete statistics, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has been using more than 100 simplified characters, 80% of which were later adopted by New China.
After the founding of New China, it continued the New Culture Movement and the unfinished simplification of Chinese characters in the Republic of China. On June1956,65438+1October 3/kloc-0, People's Daily published the State Council's resolution on publishing simplified Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters, and finally worked out a summary of simplified Chinese characters, giving them legal status.
1977, the second simplified Chinese character scheme (draft) was issued. Due to the confusion of characters, it was opposed by the people during the trial. the State Council announced that 1986 would stop using "two simplified characters".