Character Culture and History 中国文化英语论文 汉字文化与历史__精品.doc

Character Culture and History Chinese characters is the most ancient text in the world, it is also the only ideograms in the world today. During the development of Chinese characters, it goes from numerous to Jane, from drawing sex to symbolic. But no matter how it changes, the inner spirit of Chinese characters does not change, it has been traced to inheritance and development with a vigorous vitality. However, in modern times, Chinese characters has been suffer much impact, but on the one hand, Chinese characters has been maintained her nature, on the other hand, it absorb the strengths of the other text industriously so as to make Chinese standing in the east of the world for ever. 1: The development and evolution of Chinese characters The Chinese characters is the most ancient text in the world, the latest record is in shang periods , in that time there were a complete system of oracle bone inscriptions it states oracle bone inscriptions is just the flow of Chinese characters but not the original of Chinese characters, the origin of Chinese characters should also be more earlier. We dont know the exact time of the origin of Chinese characters , concrete process is also in the debate, it is unable to agree. There are many statements of the origin, but no matter which is right, Chinese characters is the Chinese nation create by own, crystallization of the wisdom of our ancestors is. It is the crystallization of the wisdom of ancestors. So we believe the Chinese characters is one of the greatest invention in the history . Chinese characters is also the only ideograms in the world today. There are many theories of word building. The first appeared should be pictographic character, not only Chinese characters , many other characters began from pictographic character. It is the reaction of mankind to nature. But not all word can be draw from picture, so later appeared instructions and understand. It expanded the scope of Chinese characters greatly , at th