The History of Chinese Symbols  

Characteristics Of chinese symbols.

Article by Lee Lin

symbol of China, also known as Chinese characters, was written one of the oldest symbols known in the world. The evolvement of Chinese symbols have been through three stages, they are oracle and Bronze Inscriptions, bamboo Inscriptions and modern Chinese writings. Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Bronze early Chinese symbols were carved by ancient Chinese Shang Dynasty (1200-1050 BC) on tortoise shells and ox scapula (shoulder blade), also known as Oracle Inscriptions (Jiaguwen) which found at the location of the last Shang capital near modern Anyang, Henan Province. In the oracle inscriptions, one of the many forms of primitive pictographs find their pictures. The pictographs, written forms of the earliest symbols of China, has had the characteristics of the script. As well known, the Chinese written language is not alphabetic, but the script ideogram.Another type early Chinese symbols in the long history of development is Bronze Inscriptions (Jinwen). This is a good text cast into bronze vessels or carved into the surface of a ship that has been carved. This ship became widely used during the Eastern Zhou dynasty (1150-771 BC ca.) But there are examples from late Shang as well. This ancient bronze inscriptions may be regarded as “a book on Brozne” that fills an important gap left by the written history is only slightly

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. Inscription Bamboo > The next stage in the history of China is a symbol of Inscription of Bamboo. Practice writing on Bamboo slips began probably from the Shang Dynasty to the Eastern Han, extending over 1,700 years. Symbols are written with Chinese writing brush and black ink, with one line on each slip. Write on slips of wood made from top to bottom, with each row consisting of 10 to at least 40 symbols. At that time, a book is formed when all slips bearing all lines of articles joined together. Many important books and the famous ancient Chinese written on bamboo slips, such as the Analects of Confucius, the Book of Rites, and so on. Bamboo book holds an important position in Chinese culture and history. gave way to bamboo slip of paper after paper documents are found and used to write. Bamboo slip is an early form of “book” that brings a valuable historical record

. modern Chinese writings the two main Chinese writing system in use today is a symbol of traditional and simplified Chinese. The first is only used in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao and Chinese-speaking communities (except Singapore and Malaysia) outside mainland China, taking the form of a standard character forms dating back to the late Han Dynasty. Simplified Chinese symbols used today are the result of the work is moderated by the Chinese Government in 1950. Simple symbols created by the decline in the number of strokes and simplifying the form of a fairly large proportion of traditional symbols. Some symbols are simplified by applying regular rules. for example, by replacing all occurrences of a specific component with a simple variant, but some symbols are simplified irregular. some simple symbol that is very different and unpredictable from traditional partners. Finally, many symbols are untouched by simplification, and thus identical between traditional and simplified Chinese Symbols.

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