Exploring the Origin of Chinese Characters in Freehand Writing in China | River Sound: Every stroke is in my heart! Chinese characters | Oracle bone script | River sound

When we write, we are touching confidence and paying tribute to traditional culture. Taking Chinese characters as the starting point, tracing their roots, looking at the world, and imagining the future, the cultural confidence accumulated over thousands of years will, with its unparalleled charm, allow more and more Chinese people to experience the long history of Chinese culture through dialogue with history.

There's always someone who can't understand my heart

"The universe is like this, with every stroke, expressing the story of China horizontally and vertically." "The familiar strokes are tattooed on my heart, square and square, repeatedly."

The lyrics are sung in Chinese characters, but in fact, they are also the throbbing memories of time and emotions that flow through our bloodline. We have never engraved the strokes of the Eternal Characters and Eight Methods in our minds, using Chinese characters to convey emotions in joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness has become an unchangeable habit.

Horizontal and vertical strokes, slight lifting and folding, each word represents the universe. Whenever and wherever I see a good character, I can't help but praise it! In this sound, our hearts always inexplicably tremble.

Who is stirring my soul? Where did it come from and how did it record everything about me?

The journey of pursuit begins, and the journey of exploration begins. Freehand China - Starting from Anyang, Henan, Explore the Origin of Chinese Characters! In fact, it is more about exploring our roots and souls.

Touching a piece of oracle bone in the Yin Ruins and shocking the world, observing the writing style and configuration of oracle bone inscriptions in the "First Dragon of China" in Qi City, walking into Cangjie Mausoleum in Liang Village and crossing time and space to "pay homage", chanting "Jianjia Cangcang, white dew is frost" by the Qi River, and using 24 characters in Xin Village, opening up a Western Zhou Dynasty with profound achievements and "inscriptions"

From October 26 to 28, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Yan'an, Shaanxi and Anyang, Henan. At the ruins of the Yin Ruins in Anyang, General Secretary Xi Jinping said, "I have been longing for the Yin Ruins for a long time." The oracle bone inscriptions unearthed in Yin Ruins have preserved the characters 3000 years ago for us and pushed the history of Chinese faith upward for about 1000 years. It is the earliest mature writing system discovered in China so far, the source of Chinese characters and the root of excellent Chinese traditional culture. The implementation of the theme propaganda activity of "Freehand China-Exploring the Source of Chinese Characters" is a concrete and vivid way to thoroughly study, publicize and implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, especially the spirit of the important speech of General Secretary Xi Jinping during his inspection in Yan'an, Shaanxi and Anyang, Henan. Initiative.

Chinese people have created Chinese characters, and Chinese characters shape Chinese people. Chinese characters are in Henan, and Chinese culture is in Henan. Chinese characters embody the character, character, and confidence of the Chinese people, and contain their essence and spirit.

Follow the footsteps of "Impressionist China" and discover and savor each journey. The origin, rhyme, and beauty of Chinese characters always touch my heart.

Finally, the Chinese heart will remain horizontal and vertical

"There is nothing wrong with the eyebrows, but a thousand years in the pen."

Chinese characters have written the lives of countless literati, poets, heroes, and martyrs; Chinese characters also depict the prosperity and decline of dynasties throughout history; Chinese characters have written the civilization of China for five thousand years.

Of course, Chinese characters also depict the life journey we have gone through, including learning, growing up, getting married, and achieving our dreams. They depict the joy, sorrow, and melancholy of every moment we strive for a happy life, and more clearly and realistically depict our sense of gain, security, and happiness.

Looking back at the evolution of Chinese characters is not only the extension of our nation, but also one of the paths to find where each of us came from and how we present ourselves today.

The evolution of Chinese characters has gone through more than 6000 different processes: from oracle bones in the Shang Dynasty to inscriptions on gold in the Zhou Dynasty, to small seal script in the Qin Dynasty, to clerical script in the Han Dynasty, regular and running script in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, cursive script in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and finally to the simplified characters used today, reflecting the development and prosperity of Chinese civilization.

This process has always been closely linked with writing, but with the rapid development of Internet technology, Chinese character writing seems to have changed from horizontal and vertical strokes to crackling keyboard strokes.

But this is just a seeming, and it will always be a seeming.

According to data, the current market size of calligraphy education in China is approximately 5 billion yuan. Why is there such a huge market size? The answer is obvious, as Chinese people continue to value it. Why do we attach so much importance to calligraphy, or rather, to good handwriting? The answer is equally obvious. In addition to the well-known phrase "words are like their own" that people of different identities, professions, and ages are familiar with, there is also a sense of national identity that the Chinese nation speaks for itself and flows with blood and blood.

Of course, some people may say that loving well does not necessarily mean daily use, and the application scenarios for Chinese character writing are becoming increasingly narrow. But precisely because of the objective existence of this trend, it is increasingly necessary to promote and educate people to have a deeper understanding of Chinese characters, and to perceive the character, morality, cultivation, philosophical thoughts, and values of Chinese people through overlapping strokes and lines. This will ignite a strong interest in Chinese characters and pursue the Chinese heart that has been thriving for thousands of years in writing.

Today, let us embark on the journey of "Impressionist China - Exploring the Origin of Chinese Characters" from the oracle bone inscriptions in the Yin ruins. We will feel confident in the historical significance of oracle bone inscriptions and leap the Chinese heart in the deep horizontal and vertical valleys.

Even if I can't bend my heart

Others carry precious swords, but I have a pen like a knife.

For thousands of years, Chinese people have been using, writing, and studying Chinese characters to understand the way of self-cultivation and social life, and relying on Chinese characters to create, inherit, and promote 5000 years of Chinese civilization.

The significant discovery of oracle bone inscriptions in the Yin ruins has epoch-making significance in the development history of Chinese civilization and even human civilization. Since the existence of written records in human history, there has never been a type of writing that can be so continuously passed down. The excavation, deciphering, and interpretation of oracle bone inscriptions vividly illustrate a nation's persistence and love for its own culture. In oracle bone inscriptions, we can not only touch the profound historical valleys of our nation, but also the profound and solid foundation of cultural confidence, and feel the confidence to promote tradition for the future. Oracle bone script, or Chinese characters, or Chinese characters, carries the successful passage of our entire nation's confusion and hesitation towards our own cultural traditions, as well as our dialectical understanding of national culture in the context of globalization.

But when we turn our attention to the depth of history and the breadth of civilization, we will find that some civilizations in the history of human civilization that were once as brilliant as Chinese civilization have lost their fundamental confidence because of the lack of such cognition, making the light of civilization that should have bloomed for a long time like a flash in the pan.

Starting from today and moving towards the future, the theme promotion activity of "Impressionist China - Exploring the Source of Chinese Characters" is actually just the beginning, a beginning to understand Chinese characters, perceive culture, enhance confidence, and continue to inherit them.

In fact, inheritance has always been ongoing.

"I am 90 years old this year, and after retirement, I spent 20 years writing a set of books about ancient Chinese character literature, nearly 1.3 million words, which have been published." This is a letter written to the media by an elderly person named Leng Jimin from Xuanwu District, Nanjing. Twenty years ago, when he was helping his daughter take care of children in England, he became fascinated by the study of ancient Chinese characters. To understand the mystery behind the combination of strokes, horizontal and vertical, Leng Jimin spent more than 20 years writing ten Chinese character literature books. He only copied the book "Shuowen Jiezi" twice by hand. At present, Leng Jimin has compiled and published ten books on the study of ancient Chinese character literature.

Being in a foreign land, a flick and a squeeze can most arouse one's soul; Indulging in the beauty of Chinese characters, even the fleeting time cannot erase the brilliance of national spirit and culture.

The old man Leng Jimin said, "Now I can still write some regular script calligraphy, but I can't write in regular script anymore. It's a pity." In fact, there is no need to regret that people's love for writing Chinese characters is heating up with the pace of national rejuvenation.

In 2022, at the age of 91, the "National Pen" hero gold pen continued to increase in sales, with a growth rate of nearly 20%. And its online sales have already accounted for over 60% of all sales. Through the data, it can be imagined that more and more young people are holding pens, using Kai, Li, Xing, Cao, Wei, and Seal script to write Chinese characters and love writing.

From carving knives and bamboo slips, to writing brushes and rice paper, and then to pens and neutral pens... Writing tools are changing, but national identity and cultural confidence remain unchanged. In the process of globalization and the wave of modern technological development, combining Chinese characters with fashion, integrating tradition with modern technology, standing on the riverbed of 5000 years of culture, carrying on the past and opening up the future, and allowing the times to change, the roots and souls that have crossed thousands of years in our bloodline will not be extinguished, and the value genes of the times will be activated to move towards the world and the future.

"The falling paper startles the wind, shaking the sky reveals the thick dew. Paintings and literary matters, what can we do without this?" Who stirred up my soul? In fact, the answer has always been engraved in our hearts and reflected in our actions.

The theme promotion activity of "Impressionist China - Exploring the Origin of Chinese Characters" is currently underway. Let's follow its footsteps to search and innovate beyond its pace.