What are the characteristics of Chinese?

1, beautiful. It has become an art-calligraphy art, and the calligraphy art of Chinese characters can't be compared with any other words. The following ancient calligraphy works have become priceless. There are many famous works, such as Preface to Lanting, Monument to Shengde of Shence Army, Mysterious Pagoda Monument, and Sacrifice to My Nephew.

2. High recognition. The field of vision of human eyes is always a surface, not a line, so linear arrangement is difficult to identify; Form a square at a glance. Pinyin text = linear text; Chinese character = box symbol. Chinese characters are more efficient than pinyin characters in reading.

3, easy to understand and relevant.

4. Image, intuition and expressiveness. Chinese characters are hieroglyphics, and their distinctive features are closely related in form and meaning, and their intuitive meaning is obvious.

Extended data

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.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Characters