Why is Chinese called Chinese?

Chinese characters, also known as Chinese, Chinese characters and square characters, are the recording symbols of Chinese and belong to morpheme syllables of ideographic characters. One of the oldest characters in the world has a history of more than 6000 years.

Chinese characters were invented and improved by ancient Han ancestors. At present, the exact history can be traced back to Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Zhang Wen and Jin Wen, about 65438 BC+0300 BC Shang Dynasty. Then it came to Xiao Zhuan in the Qin Dynasty, and it developed into Li Bian in the Han Dynasty, which became the standard of handwritten fonts used today in the Tang Dynasty-block letters.

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1 the evolution of Chinese characters:

Chinese characters mainly come from recordable pictographs, which are the basis of the formation and development of Chinese character system. Later, it evolved for thousands of years, including Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, seal script, official script, regular script, cursive script and running script. Regular script has been widely used so far, but it has not been completely finalized.

2. The influence of Chinese characters:

Chinese characters have been used for the longest time so far, and they are also the only ones in various ghost writing systems in ancient times. Chinese characters have always been the main official language in China. In ancient times, Chinese characters were also used as the only international communication language in East Asia. Japanese, Korean, Korean, Vietnamese and other countries have been deeply influenced by China culture in history, and even borrowed Chinese characters from their languages.

Chinese characters have had a great influence on the cultures of neighboring countries, forming a cultural circle of Chinese characters. In Japan, Vietnam, the Korean Peninsula and the Ryukyu Islands, Chinese characters have been merged into their languages "Chinese characters (かんじ)", "Chinese characters ()" and "Chinese characters (hán t? )"。

References:

Baidu encyclopedia Chinese characters