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Dahe Network News: Both horizontal and vertical are wise, and one flick and one depression are legendary. The reporter, together with netizens, explored the "secrets" related to Chinese characters in multiple museums in Henan by visiting the Jiahu Site, Yin Ruins Museum, Xu Shen Cultural Park, and other places.

Here, explore the origin of Chinese characters

Where is the origin of Chinese characters? Who invented Chinese characters?

Faced with these issues, Wu Yanfang's eyes are shining. She said, "The engraved symbols discovered at the Jiahu site are one of the earliest known embryonic forms of writing, ahead of ancient Egyptian papyrus and cuneiform writing in the Two Rivers Basin."

Engraving refers to the ancient practice of carving numbers or pictographic symbols onto pottery, bamboo and wood pieces, or turtle shells to convey information.

These symbols are familiar to Wu Yanfang. As the director of the Agang Temple Site Management Committee at the Jiahu Site in Wuyang, she wants to let more people know about the engraved symbols.

The Jiahu Site was first discovered in the early 1960s. The 17 carved symbols unearthed from the Jiahu Site contain all the composition of Chinese characters, including dots, horizontal, vertical, apostrophes, strokes, and hooks. The stroke order is also from left to right, from top to bottom, and from inside to outside, which is basically consistent with the current structure of Chinese characters.

If the engraved symbols are the origin of Chinese characters, then Cangjie is the "founder" of Chinese characters.

"Before the existence of written characters, ancient humans used objects, knots, and inscriptions to record events. Legend has it that one day, Cangjie went hunting and encountered three people who were discerning the direction and quantity of different wild beasts based on their footprints, in order to follow their footsteps and chase after them. Inspired by this, Cangjie used the method of" observing the traces of birds and beasts, creating characters based on their shapes "to replace the method of tying ropes. This method gradually spread and formed the earliest Chinese characters." Pang Xingang was a guide at the Cangjie Cultural Museum in Nanle County, Puyang City, Henan Province, and told that Cangjie was something he did every day.

Chinese characters have gone through thousands of years and have never ceased to grow, leaving traces of the brilliant Chinese civilization to follow.

A piece of oracle bone startles the world. At the Yin Ruins Museum in Anyang City, Henan Province, about 160000 oracle bones were unearthed here. Writing from over 3000 years ago has advanced China's history of faith by about 1000 years. Oracle bone inscriptions are mostly ideographic characters that are close to pictures, depicting the most fundamental characteristics of objective objects through relatively abstract symbols. They not only showcase the nature of objects, but also maintain a freehand expression, depicting them vividly and vividly.

Oracle bone script, as the earliest known mature writing system in China, contains the main methods of creating Chinese characters and lays the foundation for the block form and development framework of Chinese characters.

Therefore, many people say that the understanding of Chinese civilization, starting from Yin Xu in Anyang, is like a beam of light, illuminating the way forward of Chinese civilization and building Chinese cultural self-confidence.

Here, activate the civilization password

People often say that poetry is the ultimate application of Chinese characters. At the Qishui Poetry Garden in Qibin District, Hebi City, with the theme of the Book of Songs and the Qihe River as the carrier, a total of 1500 poems are collected.

"Chinese poetry is written in the form of Chinese characters. In the absence of Chinese characters, did ancient people also have poetry?" explained Fan Qingge, a member of the Hebi City Federation of Literary and Art Circles and chairman of the Hebi City Recitation Association. "Chinese classical poetry is one of the most prominent representatives of Chinese culture, and its emergence can be traced back to the ancient period without writing. At that time, oral literature songs were passed down through word of mouth." But if any symbol is used to survive, it becomes literature, and this symbol is "Chinese characters". ".

"Invest in me with wooden peaches, repay them with Qiong Yao." The leisurely Qi River still sings the "Zheng Wei's voice" from 3000 years ago. By polishing and organizing word by word, "poetry" is ultimately deeply rooted in the cultural attributes of China.

At the hometown of Du Fu in Gongyi City, Henan Province, the tour guide Sun Yanyan just finished introducing a scenic spot: "As a carrier of excellent Chinese culture, Chinese characters are of great significance in enhancing national emotions. A thousand people have a thousand poems of Du Fu in their hearts. You can find resonance in his poetry lines, such as his eagerness to worry about the country, his ambition for official career, his joy of returning home, and his love for his son."

"Singing in the daytime requires indulging in wine, and youth is a good companion for returning home." In the poetry corridor of Du Fu's hometown, the famous lines of poetry are like "Du Fu" coming by boat, with a mix of sadness and joy, he is already "tears streaming down his clothes.".

Poetry contains the charm of Chinese characters, and in Du Fu's hometown, it can be seen that the national emotions carried by Chinese characters are interconnected. In the process of exploring the origin of Chinese characters, Chinese characters, with their unique structural form and writing style, have influenced and cultivated the fundamental worldview and values of the Chinese nation. They are symbols of national spirit, carriers of national emotions, and the fundamental basis for the existence of Chinese civilization.

Here, touch the thousand year history

Standing on a small street, with thatched cottages on both sides and people coming and going; Suddenly, a person holding a cow walked towards you from the other end of the street. The person was on the right and the cow was on the left, getting closer and closer, making people instinctively try to avoid it. However, the person and the cow suddenly changed in front of them, and their actual form disintegrated into a symbol, a pictographic symbol. This symbol also kept changing, and soon became the simplified Chinese character - Mu In the 4D screening hall of the Chinese Character Museum, the origin of characters is no longer the tedious explanations and research in textbooks, but has become vivid and vivid stories. Strolling through the text museum, historical evidence lying in the pile of old papers turns into vivid images, dancing in every corner of the museum's grand yet warm exhibition hall, emitting the charm of time travel.

In Xushen Cultural Park in Luohe City, there are many tourists who come to admire and savor "Shuowen Jiezi". Shuowen Jiezi is the only work of Xu Shen that has been relatively well preserved for over 1800 years. Xu Shen classified 10506 Chinese characters under 540 radicals by analyzing the character structure of the original scattered Chinese characters, thus pioneering radical character detection.

Zhu Feihui, the head of the Research and Liaison Department of Xushen Cultural Park, believes that "due to the fact that seal script is at a watershed stage in the development of ancient and modern characters, it is a bridge for communication between ancient and modern characters. Without the small seal scripts collected in" Shuowen Jiezi ", it would be difficult for us to interpret oracle bone script, scriptures, and unearthed documents. It is precisely with Xu Shen's" Shuowen Jiezi "that we have mastered the golden key to opening up oracle bone script. Without" Shuowen Jiezi ", our writing development would be outdated."

Chinese civilization has a long and rich history, and Chinese characters are its important carriers and witnesses. In the future, ancient Chinese characters will continue to radiate new vitality and vigor.