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The Origin of Ancient and Modern Chinese
Language is the most basic tool to promote human interaction and exchange ideas. Chinese is one of the oldest, most beautiful and richest languages in the world, and its origin has a history of thousands of years. Through continuous evolution and development, Chinese has gradually matured and perfected, forming a complete scientific system. It is the crystallization of the wisdom of our ancestors and the foundation of Chinese civilization. Relying on Chinese, China culture can be spread and developed. Chinese characters have a very rich cultural accumulation, which is different from English, French, Russian, Spanish and other pinyin characters, and is an ideographic character with a close combination of form and meaning. At first, it was pictograms. From these glyphs, we can know what it stands for. Take the word "fu" as an example. In ancient times, boys wore hair, and when they grew up, they wore hairpins. Adding the pictogram of "bang" to the pictogram of "person" (not one) vividly expresses the meaning of "adult". The word "crowd" means "three people together" and expresses the meaning of many people. Add a point to the "knife" to indicate the position of the blade and convey the meaning of "blade". With the improvement of people's understanding of things, the development of abstract thinking and the change of writing materials, the shape of Chinese characters has also changed, but it has not deviated from the road of word-making based on pictographs and taking shape and sound as the main method. The evolution of Chinese characters has gone through the stages of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscription, big seal script, small seal script, official script, regular script, cursive script, running script and song style. In the process of creating and using Chinese characters, people constantly summarize the methods and theories of creating and using Chinese characters. There are "six books" in the History of Guan Bao in Li Zhoudi, but in Shuowen Jiezi by Xu Shen in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the above is only one of the contents of Chinese.