Traditional Chinese Culture from the Character of Chinese Characters with Formal Representation Characteristics

Theoretically speaking, the Chinese language and script are figurative, metaphorical, meaningful and redundant, belonging to the Sino-Tibetan family of Sino-Tibetan languages, and differing greatly from the Indo-European family of languages, so we cannot analyze the Chinese language and script in a simple way from the point of view of the western linguists. Language teaching should be based on the characteristics of the Chinese language and script, and explore teaching methods and approaches suitable for Chinese people's cultural concepts, ways of thinking and aesthetic interests, instead of rigidly copying foreign language teaching models. Take the teaching of Chinese characters as an example. As we know, Chinese characters are the cornerstone of Chinese language and culture and the miniature landscape of Chinese language. The rich ideological and cultural connotations contained in Chinese characters are the origin of Chinese culture. Unlike Pinyin characters, Chinese characters are characterized by ideograms, which make them transcend the boundaries of speech and time and space, and become a kind of "living fossil" characters that can be directly "read by sight". This kind of ideology embodies the law of "assigning shapes to meanings and writing meanings with shapes", which makes every Chinese character contain rich ideological and cultural information.

Take the simplest pictograph "water" for example. Imagine, in reality, the existence of water in the form of countless, both rivers and lakes of the ocean, but also ditches, streams, ponds and pools of the quiet; both the great waves of the majestic, but also the "autumn water *** long day of a single color" of the bright and colorful, can be described as rich and colorful. In the face of such an unpredictable water world, the ancients were not confused by the richness of the appearance, but boldly give up so many external perceptual experience, profoundly grasped the mobility of the water as a fundamental feature, the water depicted as a flow. Because in the ancient times, people have come into contact with the most extensive liquid is water. Therefore, all the characters that represent liquids in the future have three dots of water as their side. It can be seen that the pictograms are not mirror-like mechanical depiction of objective things, but contain extremely rich creative thinking activities, embedded in a deep ideological and cultural connotations. In addition, the shape of the character "水" also reflects the aesthetic characteristics of the Han Chinese people: first, symmetry, and second, curvilinear beauty.