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Author:Guangdong Communist Youth Leag Time:2022.07.14
This article is reproduced from the New Weekly (ID: New-Weekly), author: Li Shenowu
Chinese characters have been inherited for thousands of years, which is quite difficult. /"China in the classics"
In the long years of polishing, the characters have continuously extended the original text to an extension of the imaginative power. This set of text systems gradually formed and enriched, and then one of the core carriers of the continuation of the Chinese civilization inheritance: Chinese characters.
When the writer wrote his work, he put the stories of "words" that were cut through the gap, a little vertical time, and the memories of fragmented by reality.
"Words and words, under the tempering of time, cultivating the past in seconds and years in spring and autumn, it is not just the text elements in the historical collection, but also constitute a lively life experience."
In these ancient texts that are still used in large areas, people can still see the cultural metaphors left by those distant but seemingly known words, which are rare and precious.
The meaning of Chinese characters is not limited to expressiveness, narrative, lyric, and aspiration, but finally pointing to the return of the spirit and soul for us.
Fortunately, for thousands of years, we are still its users.
The ancient Chinese used two simple lines to depict a person who bowed and raised his hands. This pattern was used by them to refer to everyone, and it was the word "human".
This is a very natural approach. They need to record or communicate, so they use simple freehand patterns to refer to the world they see.
However, the content of people to express is too complicated, and it is not enough to describe objects. They also have to try to express action, emotion, state, and even thought.
They try to carry out some imaginative extensions on the basis of existing glyphs, such as putting the words "people" together, and it looks like one person follows another to describe "follow". "Cong".
Then someone added a "person" to the word "from". The form of this new word seemed crowded and was used to describe a group of people, for "crowd".
In the Chinese characters of Oracle and Jinwen, the two "people" characters stand by, for "comparison". This creativity obviously comes from their usual observation of life: as long as two people encounter one piece, it is always inevitable.
August 8, 2008, Beijing. At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, the actors of the "Living Printing" showed the "harmony" to show the beauty of Chinese characters to the world. (Figure/ Visual China)
Sometimes this group of characters from ancient times also show some cruelty, such as putting the word "female" together, namely the word "奻" to describe the quarrel.
They are also used to refer to slaves, such as the word "slave", which is a word "female" and a word "again", and the word "again" was used to finger right hands. This can be understood as a female slave's hand, or it may be a person who was pinched by the master's hand.
The characters also know that the slavery is resentful, so put a "heart" under the word "slave", which is used to refer to anger and fire, which is for "anger".
In this way, this set of text systems have gradually taken shape, and the ancient characters are universal, and we are fortunate to be its users. Enrich, and then one of the core carriers of the continuation of the inheritance of the Chinese civilization: Chinese characters.
The peers of Chinese characters are dead
For any human civilization, the use of text is a major thing. Therefore, there will be such a mythical story -like story: "The former who used to write a book, and the rain millet, the ghost night crying."
Once there is a text, humans will have a stronger learning ability, so it is not far from humans to crack the natural mystery of the world.
There may be a lot of texts born in the same period as Chinese characters, but what we can see today can only see the sanctuary of ancient Egypt, Sumer's wedge -shaped characters, and the picture text of Maya. However, they are lying in Museum or archeological books are asleep and occasionally receive a few curious scholars.
October 22, 2019, Beijing. The "Covering Guzawa -Oracle Cultural Exhibition" was held in the National Museum of China. The audience learns oracle knowledge by experiencing interactive devices. (Figure/Jia Tianyong/China News Agency)
The ancient civilization is far apart, but it is not a coincidence that it has created a square word with a pictographic meaning.
The "mountain" of the ancient Egyptian sanctuary is almost the same as the "mountain" of ancient Chinese characters. There are many examples of such examples.
When human beings make words for the first time, without any preceding cases, imitate all things in the world, and restore daily observations, obviously a wonderful way.
Then most of the pictographs are annihilated with historical evolution. Only Chinese characters are retained so far. This is probably not a coincidence.
After more and more things we want to express, the word library of wonders will expand sharply.
If a person wants to use Chinese characters to meet most of the needs in life, it often needs 2000-3,000 Chinese characters.
There are so many patterns in memory, and can be exactly described in writing, obviously it is more difficult than a few letters in memory, and their different arrangement combinations.
To popularize this meaning text, it undoubtedly require better educational investment, so in the ancient times of resources, literacy became a privilege of a few people.
In ancient times, illiterate was mostly. /"Wulin Wai Biography"
In contrast, it is not surprising that the pronunciation text with lower learning thresholds to be spread and popularized is not surprising.
Chinese characters may be protected in the meditation.
Using its civilization is far from the East inland, and there may be some ethnic minorities in the surrounding area, but they can basically cope with it. Huaxia civilization is across the mainland and mountains with the civilization of South Asia, Europe, and North Africa.
Therefore, when the western end of the Eurasian mainland of Ma Pingchuan made a pot of porridge, the evenly matched different civilizations attacked each other and continued to replace each other's culture with their own culture, the Huaxia civilization obtained a period of peaceful development.
Although the regime of Huaxia civilization has been reached, it is mostly the result of internal contradictions, and the inheritance of civilization has not been interrupted.
When Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms and established a huge empire that west of the west desert, the north, and the sea in the east, and the south to the south, the unified text was more important for national governance.
Qin Shihuang's unified text had a significant impact on future generations. /"National treasure"
As a result, Chinese characters began to become the official text of a huge empire, covering the daily exchanges, policy cases, literature and historical records in the country.
Of course, this set of text has undergone the evolution and decrease of many fonts, but the national books and the same text have not been shaken by historical changes, and even when the Chinese civilization is fully occupied by the nomadic people for the first time, they will also find that anyone who wants to manage it well will be well wanted to manage well. This vast country has to continue to use Chinese characters.
With this foundation, Chinese characters have sufficient spread and popularity. Although the use of literacy is once the privilege of a small number of people, the long history is enough for Chinese characters and its users to bred countless brilliant culture Essence
Chinese characters will accompany us for a long time
Because of this, even if the proportion of Chinese characters in ancient times, the proportion of Chinese characters has not been high, and the cultural status of Chinese characters can always remain strong.
No matter how replacement of the ancient dynasty, it chose to increase or decrease and modify it on the basis of existing Chinese characters. Chinese characters have never encountered a cultural invasion threat from a stronger civilization.
Until the end of the 19th century, the Chinese civilization encountered a powerful opponent.
After experiencing more painful defeats than once, people realized that it was a great change in the millennium.
In a era of awakening of a comprehensive self -reflection, lack of cultural self -confidence, and eager to find a new way out, the reflection on traditional Chinese culture once also affected the carrier of culture -Chinese characters.
From Qian Xuan, including Hu Shi, Lu Xun, Tao Xingzhi and others, they have advocated the abolition of Chinese characters and switched to Chinese language that uses Latin letters.
They believe that so, they can be in line with the world and increase their literacy.
However, the difficulty of abolishing Chinese characters can be imagined. Even the firm supporters who abolish Chinese characters themselves need to experience difficult adaptation process.
At the same time, the abolition of Chinese characters has also been fiercely opposed by the revolutionary veteran, the master of the Chinese school, Zhang Taiyan, and others. They advocate that the improvement of Chinese characters is necessary, but the abolition of the abolition is really extreme. After all, text is not just a tool for national civilization. The surname was lost, and the violence took it.
In the end, the completely abolished Chinese characters could not be hit by the noise of the troubled times, but the fierce disputes between the two factions contributed two important ideological results that made Chinese characters later continue to live in life: vernacular and pinyin.
Give up Chinese characters, and even Lu Xun can't do it. /"Awakening"
Vernacular writing and expression of Chinese characters are more popular. How can people speak, Chinese characters can be written.
Zhou Youguang, who had been baptized by Chinese characters after the "May 4th", presided over the revision of the "Basic Rules of Chinese Pinyin Corporation" more than 30 years later.
Latin alphabetics, coupled with appropriate simplified Chinese characters, strongly promoted the blind cleansing movement of New China.
Premier Zhou Enlai pointed out in the "Mission of the current text reform" in 1958: "First of all, it should be clear that the Chinese pinyin scheme is used to note and promote Mandarin for Chinese characters. It is not a pinyin text used to replace Chinese characters."
Pinyin, the product of this Chinese character Latin, did not eventually become a pusher of the abolition of Chinese characters, but became the driving force for further promotion of Chinese characters.
At the beginning of the founding of New China, the domestic illiteracy rate was 80%.
The seventh census data of more than 70 years later showed that the illiterate rate was reduced to 2.67%, and the population of university culture (college or above) was 218.3 million, accounting for more than 15.4%of the total population.
This process is by no means smooth sailing.
In fact, in the 1980s, Chinese characters faced another severe challenge.
In 1981, IBM released IBM5150 equipped with a variety of practical software.
This is not the first personal computer, but it lays the basic form of a personal computer.
In the computer age, Chinese characters are still vitality. /"Dajiang Dahe"
In 1984, Apple released the first generation of McKin Tower's personal computer. The third technological revolution and computer era really came.
Facing the computer, Chinese characters are facing a big problem immediately -the computer was invented by English users. Input, presentation and output on the computer.
Therefore, there was a pessimistic argument in the "Modernization of Chinese" in 1980: History will prove that electronic computers are the tombs of the Chinese characters, and the midwife in Chinese Pinyin text.
But after more than 40 years, whether it is Chinese or Chinese Pinyin, it lives well. From computer to smartphones, we seem to never feel how remarkable Chinese characters are input. This is because on another key node, because of the breakthroughs in technologies such as Hanka and laser photos, Chinese characters have been pulled back from the edge of the cliff by its users.
This is the common pride of Chinese characters and its users.
Because of the rich culture, history, and connotation carried by Chinese characters, it is always difficult for users to give up.
Because of its charm, there are always unremitting and talented people in its users, and they continue to inject new life into Chinese characters.
Looking around the countries around you who used to use Chinese characters, either reserved like Japan, or thoroughly eliminated as South Korea and Vietnam.
A pictograph -like text from ancient times, through the history of thousands of years, survives the invasion of strong civilization and the huge changes in society -I have to say that we are still using Chinese characters so far, which is really a miracle.
But we also have full reasons to believe that this miracle will also be with us for a long time.
This article comes from the 613 issue of "Discover Chinese Characters"
Original title: "We are still using Chinese characters, this is really a miracle"
Author: Li Shen Meow
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