The study of Chinese and Western history can understand the differences between China and the West in the same period, how much do you know about this?

Oriental culture is dominated by our own culture, which is mainly expressed as "farming culture", such as "thirty acres of land, two cows, wife and children hot bed" is a typical expression of the characteristics of oriental culture. It seeks to "live in peace with a small fortune", "have food and clothing", "raise children and pass on the family name". The goal is social stability and the easy formation of social groups that help each other.

Western culture seems to be the Mediterranean neighboring countries as the main body, there are two major features. One is the characteristics of the transaction, due to the countries are not the same, need to be exchanged in order to meet each other's requirements. For example, the sheepskin for grain, etc., therefore, by the exchange of goods to form the market mechanism is very early. The second is the pirate characteristic. As each exchange needs to bring more commodities or money, brewing some people to plunder as a means to obtain wealth. We often say "Pirates of the Caribbean" is this reason.

As we all know, Chinese characters belong to ideographs. Ideographs are a writing system that uses symbolic writing symbols to record information that does not directly or solely represent speech. Simply put, it means that Chinese characters represent meanings that can be understood literally, but cannot be read from the literal image if you don't know them. English and most other languages are phonetic, which simply means that the pronunciation can be read from the words, but the meaning is not known from the words alone.

The two writing systems are just the opposite.

The advantage of the epigraphic script is that it is simple, convenient and easy to spread, which is evident from today's global popularity of English. But the disadvantage is that it is unstable. Specifically, if there is a natural or man-made disaster or an invasion by another civilization, the script tends to undergo huge cultural changes or even extinction. If words are altered, the script is basically dead.

And the advantages and disadvantages of ideographic writing are just the opposite of epigraphic writing. Ideographs are easy to pass on, the meaning of words is not affected by language, what the word meant 3000 years ago, the word will still mean the same thing 3000 years from now, and any changes will be traceable derivations. Therefore ideographs are more stable and easier to pass on, as well as preserve civilization.

The effect on the cultural aspect is depth of thought.

Ideographs have a higher level of linguistic meaning, and there can be many hidden meanings behind a single word, which makes it necessary for the people who use them to consider more meanings and interpret them. So it tends to lead to a higher depth of thinking and better philosophical, literary, sociological, and psychological aspects of that people.

Epigraphic writing is more conducive to the development and dissemination of science, which can be seen in the development of computer programming and cell phone systems, and the widespread dissemination of scientific papers by translating them into the world's language, English, and submitting them to the world's leading scientific journals.