汉字的发展(英文版介绍)Chinese__character

The Chinese Language
Is the oldest, continuous written language in the World
First written over 5,000 years ago The inventors of the written language drew
中国汉字
Chinese Characters
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壹 one 汉字的简介 贰 two 汉字的发明 叁 three 汉字的发展 肆 four 汉字的结构
汉字的简介
世界上最古老的，承传的手写文字 最早出现于5,000 多年前 中国的古老汉字构思来自形象和意象,简
单的形象结合在一起可以构成复杂的意象 汉字是方块字
time. 汉字是从原始人用以记事的简单图画，经 过演变发展最终成为一种兼具音·形·意·韵
的独特文字。
音
sound
形 意 image
idea
韵 rhyme
Chinese characters are usually round outside and square inside, which is rooted in ancient Chinese beliefs of an orbicular sky and a rectangular earth. 汉字结构“外圆内方”源于古人“天圆地方”的观念
be simple pictures use to help people remember things. After a long period of development, it finally became a unique character system that embodies phonetic sound, image, idea, and rhyme at the same
In legend, there was a figure in remote antiquity named CangJie who was an official historian of Huangdi(known as the Yellow Emperor). It was said that he had 4 eyes, and the upper 2 were for watching the sun, the moon and the stars while the lower 2 for watching mountains, rivers, beasts and birds. And it was he, as the legend goes, who had created the Chinese characters according to the shapes of all things.
So he has the title of “Sage of Charactercreation”, as later generations addressed him. Nevertheless, it is improbable for any single person to create a complicated character system at one time. The characters is actually developed by many people gradually in the long process of invention, accumulation, and evolution.
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汉字的发明 The invention of the Chinese
characters
Keep records by tying knots(结绳说） The Eight Diagrams(八卦说） Cangjie created the characters(仓颉造
字说）
传说上古时期有个名叫仓颉（jīé） 的人，他是黄帝的史官。据说他长着4 只眼睛，上面两只观日月星辰，下面两 只观看山川鸟兽，据万物的形状创造了 汉字。后人尊他为“造字圣人”。实际 上，汉字这样的文字系统，不是一人一 时所能创造的，而是在发明、积累及形 成过程中，由许多人慢慢丰富起来的。
Hale Waihona Puke Baidu字的发展
the development of Chinese
characters
Oracle Bone Inscription 甲骨文 Bronze Inscriptions 金文 Seal Script 篆书 Official Script 隶书 Regular Script 楷书 Cursive Script 草书 Running script 行书
The oldest Chinese inscriptions are the Oracle bone script 甲骨文 (BC.14-11). Most of Oracle Bone Inscription are divination records, engraved on the tortoise shells or animal bones. Now we have been found more than 4600 oracles, including about 1000 recognized. Oracle is carved with a knife, very little is written, because words have not unified, many words can write, write back, strokes simplified differ, Chinese character component is not fixed, and so many variant characters（异体字）.
pictures to express words or ideas,Simple pictures were combined to make more complex thoughts Is square-shaped.
Chinese characters were initially meant to