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Changji's creation
Changji's creation

Legend has it that Cang Xie was originally a historian of Xuanyuan Huangdi, and recorded the great events at that time by knotting ropes. Later, the negotiation between Huangdi and Yan Di failed because Cang Xie provided a wrong record to Huangdi in "Jieyilu". So Cang Xie resigned and moved away. In an accidental collective hunting, when he saw people judging the whereabouts of wild animals according to their footprints, he suddenly realized something.

So "start the book contract and tie the rope instead." Cang Xie created many symbols according to the distribution of stars in the sky, the paw prints and shapes of birds and animals, the scenery of the sun and the moon, and the shapes of plants and utensils.

After each word-making, Cang Xie will revise it repeatedly to make these symbols look easy to understand. Later, he dedicated these symbols to the Yellow Emperor and was ordered to teach people at that time to read.

Because Cang Xie created words according to the specific forms of things, most of his words were hieroglyphics. Among them, the most famous is the 28-character Wuji A and B deciphered by later generations, which ranks first in the world and stops at the top of the world. They have achieved great success, are respected by Chishui and attacked by Mao Ge.

The creation of Cang Xie's characters is a great event in history. How influential is it?

"Huai Nan Zi" written by Liu An in the Han Dynasty said: "Cang Xie once wrote a book. When it rains, ghosts cry at night." In other words, on the day when Cangjie succeeded in creating characters, millet fell from the sky like rain, and people heard ghosts crying and wolves howling that night.

This is because after the characters were created in Cang Xie, people were free to convey ideas and record things, so millet was planted in the sky for people to eat as a celebration. Seeing that human beings have words and wisdom, monsters can no longer fool and manipulate at will, so they have to hold their heads high in pain.