The Spiritual Value of Chinese Characters汉字五千年之华夏心灵

The Spiritual Value of Chinese Characters The fourth part of Five Thousands Years of Chinese Characters is called Heart and Spirit of Chinese People.The theme of this part is to dig out and explain the spiritual value of Chinese characters.And also the Chinese culture pursues the internal transcendence.

The difference between the signals of Chinese and Western lies in that every Chinese character is composed of spiritual value,and every Chinese character can tell you what is wrong or right and its statue in Chinese traditional culture.However,the signal of Western world has not the unique feature.

BC240,Lv Buwei,the prime minister of Qin dynasty,called called for intellectuals to write a book which included everything in history,namely,Lv’s commentaries of History.He hanged in the the grate of the town Xianyang and said if anyone who can delete one word or plus one word to the great book,then the one can get a thousand gold for reward.At that time,the character(in Chinese“字”）developed from the symbol of prosperity of families to the generic term for the writing of Chinese characters.

The Chinese character(字）implies concrete meaning.Such as,the character winter(冬）meant the ending of things before it used as a season in West Zhou.Eighty eight cellars were found in Hu Bei province.Some professors estimate more than 130 thousand Chinese jin millet can be

restored in these cellars,which showed how flourishing the northern agriculture was at ancient time.In some Chinese characters,we can the shadows of agricultural tools.Chinese characters recorded Chinese agriculture clearly.

In agrarian time,the level of productive force was quite low,the agriculture,in great degree,depended on nature,so people at that time preyed for blessing of Haven.The character human(ren/人) was created with the meaning of being reverent and respectful to Haven.

Everything is developed in the order of being small to being big,but actually the core family is developed from the extensive family.The core family can not defend the natural disasters alone,so in agrarian time,people were lived together in community,in Chinese character,this community is called zu(族）。This kind of community was united by blood relationship to fight against hostile community and plant crops.In the community of zu,another character was created,in Chinese fu(means father父）.From the construction of the character,the man held something signalizing power and majesty.

Them when the core family was separated from the extensive family?This question followed the problems of Chinese salutations,another content of Chinese character.The Chinese dictionary ,Er Ya used single chapter to explain Chinese salutations.There were less than ten salutations in oracles and more than two hundred