Chinese character culture refers to areas where Chinese characters are used in written language and have formed a certain cultural system. There are many examples of Chinese characters mixed with the written words of proper words. This cultural coverage area includes China, the birthplace of Chinese character culture, and the areas with tributary relations with ancient China. The coverage area of Chinese character culture is called Chinese character cultural circle. In Vietnam and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on the Korean peninsula, the official use of Chinese characters has been completely abolished, but some Chinese characters are still used in the Republic of Korea.
Chinese characters and calligraphy, in modern western psychology, regard fonts as the most vivid embodiment of human nature. I remember that Holmes made an incisive deductive reasoning about fonts in his detective cases. Twenty-six letters are written by different people, either ostentatious or hesitant, or firm or hesitant. Nowadays, investigating fonts has become an important reference for recruiting employees. A person's temper is either anxious, ups and downs, or far-sighted or cautious. It's all revealed directly in the ink of the nib. However, as an art, fonts are unique in China. Xian's father and son, Yan Gu and Zuisu make calligraphy a kind of skill of literati, and it has long been among the four wonders of calligraphy and painting. Today, practicing calligraphy is a way to improve cultural accomplishment and cultivate one's morality. Even calligraphy has become the basic element of Chinese etiquette. The glyphs of Chinese characters are art in themselves. Every Chinese character is square, solid in bones and muscles, rigorous in structure, but easy to control in character. Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the hieroglyphic symbol of the past, has long been the text of today's literature, but the ideographic function of Chinese characters as hieroglyphs has never changed. What's more commendable is that every Chinese character seems to have a delicate composition and an appropriate proportion. This symbol is endowed with too many artistic connotations. When the word "Jing" was abstracted into the image of a runner, its agility, perseverance and femininity touched 6 billion people. When Chinese characters are popular as tattoos in Europe and America, we care about these symbols not only their meanings. Chinese characters are the most beautiful. It is precisely because of artistic Chinese characters that artistic calligraphy can be obtained. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Cang characters have been transformed into different variants by various countries. War can breed a large number of strategists who care about the country and the people, and also a large number of philosophers who are bent on saving society and assisting the monarch. However, this does not allow the literati to ponder how to improve his calligraphy. Even those with clean ears, such as Lao Zi and Zhong Ziqi Yu Boya, can't give up the official big code. In addition, writing on bamboo slips or silk books at this time is quite difficult compared with writing on paper, but the font complexity of Da Dian has made great progress compared with the inscriptions on Oracle Bone Inscriptions and sacrificial vessels. From then on, we bid farewell to hieroglyphics in the absolute sense. This is determined by the innovation of writing tools. We must admit that fonts and calligraphy are gradually developed, and every appearance of fonts is a certain basic achievement. It is evolved. The historical conditions of a dynasty affect the evolution speed of fonts through the influence on people's life thinking. We can find the footprint of the evolution of Chinese characters through Erya or Shuowen Jiezi. Because of the complexity of large strokes, Qin Dynasty kept a large number of small strokes in the unified characters, which could not meet the busy official needs after reunification. But this is still inconvenient. So Cheng Miao founded an official script in prison to help him copy official documents. Qin Shihuang was overjoyed at the news and pardoned his crime. Official script is very popular. The maturity of this historical condition, that is, a unified country, has given birth to the innovation of fonts. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, scholars reduced official script and used regular script wildly. This standard and powerful font is considered neat and standardized. Today, most "eclectic" comrades are crying. But in any case, the style and backbone of regular script are solemn enough to bear the name of orthodoxy. At this time, the era of celebrating official script is over. Soon Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty shocked ancient and modern times with his unique running script. This kind of running script abandons the standard of regular script, but inherits its lofty integrity. It abandoned the impudence of cursive script, but left it wild ... this is the embodiment of the writer's self-confidence and independence. It not only broke the etiquette norms of regular script, but also refused to be as casual as cursive script, but it was everyone's demeanor. Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing, Su Shi and Mi Fei wrote magnificent pictures with their free and easy. The cursive script, that is, Cao Zhang, Jincao and Kuangcao, appeared earlier than the running script, because Kuangcao didn't like regular script and official script and couldn't wait to express himself directly. The wild grass behind this grass was created by Zhang Xu in Tang Dynasty. Its wild indulgence is like Youlong's calligraphy, revealing the calligrapher's wild and unruly personality. However, although there is no definite method, cursive script is just right in writing, inheritance and structure, which is very beautiful. Unlike some people who think that cursive script is cursive script, it is a blasphemy to art. Since the Han Dynasty, various calligraphy styles have appeared one after another, which is not only the official need of an expanding country. At the same time, it is also the product of the influence of the literary world of the Jin Dynasty, and it is a masterpiece of seclusion style. In a word, only such China can produce such calligraphy. It belongs to scholars, a class with China characteristics, Chinese characters and China culture. Practicing regular script can make people feel calm and cultivate patience, and practicing running script can make people feel comfortable. Practicing cursive script can shout out a song "Genghis Khan is arrogant, only knowing how to shoot big with a bow." Showed heroic spirit. Therefore, calligraphy itself is a good medicine for self-cultivation. No wonder China's literati and emperors are so partial to it. In order to get the Preface to Lanting Collection, Emperor Taizong buried it in the grave and never saw the light of day again. At this time, calligraphy even surpassed art.
Cultural Interpretation of Chinese Characters (Book)
brief Introduction of the content
1. Chinese character culture is contained in the form and original meaning of Chinese characters. Explaining the source of the form and meaning of Chinese characters is bound to involve the cultural characteristics of Chinese characters.
This book is divided into three volumes. The first volume consists of 526 words, which is what Xu Shu believes or basically believes in the explanation of form. The second volume, with a total of 262 words, was corrected by later scholars for Xu Yun's mistakes in interpretation or even in form and meaning. The third volume contains the word 2 14, and I have made a new textual research on those whose form or original meaning is unknown or whose source is unknown. About half of them are my humble work "After abridgement, it has been incorporated into this volume. The forms and semantic sources of the remaining hundreds of words were obtained after two years of textual research, namely 1998 and 1999. In order to save space, schools generally have no or few statements.
The prefix of each volume is arranged in the order of Shuowen Jiezi.
4. Pronunciation reading with each prefix. After reading the phonetic notation, it is the original text of Shuo Wen Jie Zi.
5. The interpreted character explains the structural type. The structural types of Chinese characters are still inconclusive.
6. The ancient books and examples used: What is the abbreviation of Oracle Bone Inscriptions Collection? The abbreviation of Xiaotun Nanjiagu is Tun, the abbreviation of Bai Zang Jiagu is Huai, and the abbreviation of Yingzang Jiagu is Ying. The inscriptions are quoted from Bian, Collected Works of Yin, Zhou and Jin, Ancient Chinese and English.
In order to understand the meaning of example sentences, some words are marked with explanatory words in brackets.
Eight. According to the original quotation.
9. The missing words in Oracle Bone Inscriptions's examples and quotations are indicated by ...
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