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What is China's proud invention? Why is the invention of Chinese characters great?

Chinese characters can be said to be China's proudest invention. Maybe everyone will say that Chinese characters are also words, and all countries in the world have invented and developed words. Words are the most common things, how can we be proud of them?

Advantages of Chinese characters

Although all countries in the world have their own personalities. But China's writing is the clearest. It can not only have both form and meaning, but also be flexible. The characteristics of Chinese characters can be said to be beyond the reach of any words in the world.

Although all countries have invented Chinese characters, China's Chinese characters are the best. Today we can read the articles of the ancients. Other countries, hundreds of years later, can't understand ancient Chinese. In the long run, history and culture will begin to die out, which shows the genius of China's writing.

One advantage of Chinese characters in the world is that other languages can't compare with it. First of all, as we all know, people use this language the most, because our country has a large population. Coupled with the influence of big countries, it is not. So let's look at other advantages. The greatest advantage of Chinese characters is conciseness.

At this time, it is likely that some people will say that there are many strokes in Chinese characters, and traditional Chinese characters are composed of dozens of strokes. In some countries, it is easier to write with few strokes.

But in the end, English is just a written language composed of 26 letters. Many times, English is a word with a usage and a special word. The flexibility of Chinese characters cannot be achieved.

Chinese characters can only express different meanings by changing phrases, changing order or changing tones. For example:

Example of modifying a phrase:? Castle peak? what's up Green? With what? Qingsi? They are all green, but they have different meanings. Example of exchange order:? Words? And then what? Language? It's just that the order of the two words has been changed, and the meaning is really different.

Modify the tone, or tone example:? Things? It can bring meaning that can express the direction and also express the meaning of things.

And I believe all China people can illustrate this example. It can be seen that Chinese characters are all-inclusive and can express their thoughts well. The same words and paragraphs, expressed in different tones, have different meanings.

For example:? Did Xiaoming have breakfast? ? The representative means to question and ask.

And then what? Xiaoming has breakfast. ? Represents the meaning of informing and explaining.

English can't do this, for example: lover? If it means love, you can't express other different meanings.

We are looking at Chinese characters:? Girlfriend boyfriend? This word can refer to both boyfriend and girlfriend, as well as boyfriend and girlfriend, lover and lover.

The profoundness of Chinese characters

With the development of the times, more and more foreigners begin to learn Chinese and Chinese characters, which also shows that the influence of Chinese characters in the world is growing, which proves that the motherland is getting stronger and stronger, and it also proves that Chinese characters have great advantages over other written languages. But it is also the most difficult to compare Chinese characters with those of other countries. For example: a famous linguist in China? Father of modern linguistics? History of the lion eater

Lion lover Shishi Shishi vowed to eat ten lions. Shi always sees lions in the market. At ten o'clock, ten lions are suitable for the market. Shishi is in the right market at the right time. Stone regarded it as ten lions and died according to the arrow. Stone picks up the bodies of ten lions, which is just right for stone chambers. The stone room is wet, and the stone room is waiting to be cleaned. Wipe the stone room and taste the ten lion corpses for the first time. When I was eating, the first thing I knew was the bodies of ten lions, but they were actually the bodies of ten lions. Trial interpretation is a problem.

What is the content and theme of the full text? Stone? Pronunciation, expressing different meanings, not to mention some foreigners, even if many China people don't understand it at first, they are at a loss.

"Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi:

There is a poet named Shi in the stone house. He likes lions and vows to eat ten lions. This gentleman often goes to the market to find lions. At ten o'clock that day, he arrived at the market, and so did ten big lions. So the gentleman looked at the ten lions and killed them with his ten stone bows and arrows.

Mr. Wang picked up the lion's body and walked back to the stone house. The stone house was very damp, so Mr. Wang asked the servant to clean it. After wiping, Mr. Wang began to try to eat the bodies of the ten lions. When he ate it, he realized that the ten lion bodies were not real lion bodies, but ten lions made of stones. Only then did Mr. Wang realize that this was a fact. Please try to explain it.

Seeing this, I believe many friends in China are amazed and surprised! Full text? Stone? Pronunciation to express such a meaning.

I believe that using only one pronunciation to describe a thing, I'm afraid it can't be done in any other language except Chinese. I believe foreigners will only be dumbfounded when they see it. Just believe that Chinese characters are China's proud invention? Worthy of this position? Yes

The evolution of Chinese characters

Chinese characters have a history of more than 6000 years. The earliest Chinese character was Oracle Bone Inscriptions unearthed in Shang Dynasty about 1300 years ago.

Chinese characters mainly come from recordable pictographs, which are the basis of the formation and development of Chinese character system. After thousands of years of evolution, Oracle Bone Inscriptions unearthed in Shang Dynasty is the earliest known version of Chinese characters.

Later, it evolved into bronze inscriptions (characters on bronzes), the Western Zhou Dynasty evolved into a big seal script, and finally Qin Shihuang destroyed the six countries and unified the characters. Also known as? Seal script? , is a general term for small seal and big seal, commonly known as small seal.

The strokes of Xiao Zhuan are horizontal and vertical, becoming pure square characters, which is also convenient for writing. Xiao Zhuan plays an important role in the development history of China characters.

Later, there were regular script, cursive script and running script in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which evolved into today's Chinese characters. The font we commonly use today is regular script (it is a regular script in Wei and Jin Dynasties, which has been used to this day because of its square font and regular strokes). Chinese characters are the longest-used characters in the world, and there are no mistakes.

Conclusion:

China's Chinese characters are extensive and profound, which is unmatched by other languages at present. Even if foreign words are translated into Chinese characters, different words can still express the same meaning. The diversity and interest of Chinese characters are unmatched by other countries.

Chinese characters are the pride of China and the inheritance of China civilization and culture. China has a long history and culture, and Chinese characters have always been our precious wealth. Chinese characters are not only a kind of writing, but also have special national significance. It is the hope and future of the nation and the cultural representative of China for 5,000 years.

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