Stories and legends about Chinese characters in China

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, Khotan, 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 went hunting in 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".

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Chinese characters are one of the oldest characters in the world, with a history of at least several thousand years. The earliest existing primitive characters are descriptive pictures and prints, and the recognizable mature Chinese character system is Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty.

Chinese characters are ideographic characters, and a Chinese character usually represents a word or a morpheme in Chinese, which forms the characteristics of unity of sound, form and meaning. Chinese characters are square characters composed of strokes, so they are also called square characters.

Such as "che", "Shang" and "Ming", directly express the meaning of language in the form of words; "Question" can refer to both meaning and sound, "door" refers to sound, and "mouth" refers to meaning.

In the course of thousands of years, Chinese characters have evolved from the most primitive stone inscriptions into "seven-style Chinese characters", namely: Oracle Bone Inscriptions, inscriptions on bronze, seal script, official script, cursive script, regular script and running script.