How the Chinese character harmonics came to be. Origin

Chinese characters are a unique script of our Chinese nation and a symbol of Chinese civilization. In our daily life, we can see it everywhere, and it can be said that wherever there are Chinese people, there must be Chinese characters. However, do you know how Chinese characters were developed? Here, I will introduce the history of Chinese characters.

There is a legend that a long time ago, during the time of the Yellow Emperor, the Yellow Emperor ordered his courtier Cangjie to create writing. Cangjie, a strange man with eight eyes, used his eight eyes to observe the eight directions and saw all kinds of things, and he simplified the shapes of these things and engraved them on tortoise shells and animal bones, which became the earliest writing. This myth is, of course, absurd, but it also illustrates a fact -- that Chinese characters evolved from hieroglyphics.

In the primitive era tens of thousands of years ago, ancient people learned to use language to express meaning, and later learned to use gestures, but some things with language and gestures is difficult to express, so some people came up with a way to do the mark, but too many marks, easy to forget, and then use graphics to express the meaning of the word, for example, "the sun" was drawn as The first hieroglyphics were created in this way.

Over time, mankind entered a slave society. By this time, the need for written records of things is more, and just use some graphic symbols to represent, seems too cumbersome. So people simplified some of the pictograms and combined some of them to form a new kind of writing that was easier for people to read and understand. For example, combining the words "人" and "木" made the character "休", meaning a person sleeping against a tree. Many more characters were created in this way, forming a new type of Chinese character, the huiyi.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, many vassal states emerged in China, and the scripts of these vassal states were differentiated, resulting in a situation in which one character had multiple meanings and many characters had one meaning, which made cultural exchanges between countries difficult. After Qin Shi Huang unified the six states, he had ordered to unify the use of one script, the Small Seal Script, throughout the country. This script was much simplified than the previous ones, but it was still a bit cumbersome, so an emergency common style, the official script, gradually emerged among the people. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhong Yao of the State of Wei created a simpler and more aesthetically pleasing script, the Regular Script. Since then, the Chinese character has established its square form and started to have a frame structure. Later on, people created a variety of scripts such as cursive and running script, and there emerged world-famous calligraphers such as Zhong, Wang, Yan, Liu, Su, Huang, Mi and Cai. The development of Chinese characters gradually entered into a new phase. The development of Chinese characters gradually entered a higher level.

And as the number of Chinese characters grew, so did the number of characters, and so did a tool to make it easier for people to look up Chinese characters, such as the Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining and Explaining Characters), the Kangxi Dictionary, and so on.

After 1949, with the establishment of the new China, the Chinese characters welcomed the spring of its development, and in the early 1950s, the central government issued a series of notices on the reform of the Chinese character system, and boldly simplified the Chinese characters that were too cumbersome in terms of strokes, so that all people could read and use them, which was undoubtedly a great initiative in the development of the Chinese character system.

In the modern society, science is developing rapidly, and there are some new changes in Chinese characters, such as the characters for chemical elements and new things, and many Chinese characters have been given some new meanings. With the emergence of computer technology, how to input Chinese characters into computers has become a new subject. After the 1980s, a series of Chinese character input methods were developed in China, such as Pinyin, Wubi Ziqi, Epigraphic Code, Natural Code, etc. In order to adapt to the changes of the times, the Chinese characters have become more and more popular. In order to adapt to the changes of the times, Chinese characters have also been improving themselves and perfecting themselves, making great contributions to the development and spread of Chinese culture.

In recent years, some people think that Chinese characters are too complicated, and have proposed the "Latinization of the script", thinking that Chinese characters should be romanized. But I don't think so, because Chinese characters have gone through thousands of years of history, and have become a symbol of the Chinese nation and a sign of the Chinese people. We shouldn't abandon Chinese characters, but should develop them and improve them, so that they can continue to be used in the 21st century.

Some people sent loquats to a magistrate, but he misspelled loquat as pipa on the gift list. The magistrate laughed and said; "The loquat is not this pipa, I only hate that my literacy was poor back then!" One of the guests responded; "If the pipa could bear fruit, the city would be full of Xiao Pipe. There is an old poet named Pan, whose pen name is Wave Wave, and who has been the chairman of the Provincial Literature Federation. His acquaintances and subordinates all called him Chairman Pan. It's also appropriate to call him Mr. Wave Wave and Mr. Wave Wave Chairman. But there are often people who meet for the first time and lose their admiration, a wave chairman, wave chairman, called the bystanders straight goosebumps.

Some people call their children Yi, Wang Yi, Li Yi, Sun Yi, Zhao Yi. You can call it whatever you want at home, call your aunt's milk, but if you go out and meet your friends, you have to pay attention. Pointing to the child to a fifty-something old man said, "This is Sun Yi." The other party is not drunk also have to be dizzy: where appeared such a sister-in-law?

Some people take their grandchildren to the street, and occasionally see a female colleague surnamed Zhu, a moment of reaction, pulled over the grandchildren said: called the Zhu maternal grandmother. The first thing I did was to ask my son if he was going to be able to get a good deal of money from me, and then he said, "I don't want to have to do that. He immediately said, "Grandma Niu." It's all over. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.

The most frequently used Chinese characters are pig, horse, cow, sheep, dog, cat, rabbit, fish, shrimp and insects, and once you have the same sound as your last name, you need to pay attention, especially to the words that follow. In the newspaper, the editor referred to as editor, happen to be surnamed Ma Niu Yang, can not be simple for the horse editor Niu editor Yang edited. Called it disrespectful. Surname Hu also can not, Hu editor?

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In a bustling marketplace, a fish seller shouted, "Fresh fish!" At that moment, a bubblegum seller shouted right after, "Bubblegum! (bubble soup)" The fish seller heard this and said to the candy seller, "Hey, why did you say my fish was in soup?" They argued more and more. Just then, a bean sprout seller shouted again, "Bean sprouts! (Doo ah)" A magistrate came over and asked, "Who else is quarreling with them?" A yamaboko seller shouted, "Yamaboko! (There's me)" When the vigilante heard this, he said, "Well then, take all four of you away together!" ......