Character Culture And History
Q10500129 宋江锋
Chinese characters is the most ancient text in the world, it is also the only ideograms in the world today. During the development of Chinese characters, it goes from numerous to Jane, from drawing sex to symbolic. But no matter how it changes, the inner spirit of Chinese characters does not change, it has been traced to inheritance and development with a vigorous vitality. However, in modern times, Chinese characters has been suffer much impact, but on the one hand, Chinese characters has been maintained her nature, on the other hand, it absorb the strengths of the other text industriously so as to make Chinese standing in the east of the world for ever.
1: The development and evolution of Chinese characters
The Chinese characters is the most ancient text in the world, the latest record is in shang periods , in that time there were a complete system of oracle bone inscriptions it states oracle bone inscriptions is just the flow of Chinese characters
but not the original of Chinese characters, the origin of Chinese characters should also be more earlier. We don't know the exact time of the origin of Chinese characters , concrete process is also in the debate, it is unable to agree. There are many statements of the origin, but no matter which is right, Chinese characters is the Chinese nation create by own, crystallization of the wisdom of our ancestors is. It is the crystallization of the wisdom of ancestors. So we believe the Chinese characters is one of the greatest invention in the history .
Chinese characters is also the only ideograms in the world today. There are many theories of word building. The first appeared should be pictographic character, not only Chinese characters , many other characters began from pictographic character. It is the reaction of mankind to nature. But not all word can be draw from picture, so later appeared instructions and understand. It expanded the scope of Chinese characters greatly , at the same time, it make Chinese characters from graphical to symbol .along with the progress of the society and the expansion of production, the speed of Chinese characters made can't keep up with the development of thinking and language. So hypocrisy words.hypocrisy
words is the inevitable result of social development, it is also the key of challenging . Other ancient characters turned to the alphabet writing after the appear of hypocrisy words , but our Chinese characters doesn't change . Our ancestor created another word named phonogram . The emergence of phonogram characters to make Chinese characters eventually setting up, it make Chinese almost impossible to develop to phonetic script. At the same time, Chinese characters have also experienced several changes , it's generally believe, that is jinwen and dazuan, xiao zhuan, official script, regular script, running and cursive. Before the official script ,they are ancient stages, the words are very complex, it had been controversial. The words from official script is concise , most people can accept it. So official script's appearance is very important .Official script began to grow up from Qin. Qin shihuang united China, but his greatest contribution is "书同文". Because the unity of the text makes the China was basically keeps in the unity, united situation. Of course at first qin united xiao zhuan,not official script, but xiao zhuan's appearance led to the unity of the official script directly . Official script weakens the image mean of
the Chinese characters , but greatly improves the characters
