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Briefly describe the important role and cultural significance of Chinese characters.
Chinese characters are an important tool to carry culture. At present, there are a large number of ancient books written in Chinese characters. Chinese characters are the common writing system in different dialects and even languages. In ancient Japan, Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, Ryukyu Islands and Lanfang Republic of Borneo, Chinese characters were once the only system of official documents, so Chinese characters played an important role in the spread and sharing of civilization in history.

Since the emergence of Chinese characters, it has been promoting the development of China culture, and has also had a very far-reaching impact on world culture. Chinese characters are an indispensable part of Chinese civilization, which not only inherits the history of our country for thousands of years, but also is a necessary means of communication between people from ancient times to the present. In China, all kinds of calligraphy art derived from Chinese characters are the soul treasures of our civilization.

Because the relationship between Chinese characters and pronunciation is not very close, it is easy to be borrowed by other ethnic groups, such as Japan, the Korean peninsula and Vietnam. There was a historical stage when only Chinese characters were written and no Chinese was spoken. This feature of Chinese characters plays an important role in maintaining a cultural circle-a nation full of various dialect groups that cannot communicate.

Chinese characters have had a great influence on the cultures of neighboring countries, forming a cultural circle of Chinese characters. In Japan, Vietnam, the Korean Peninsula and Ryukyu Islands, Chinese characters have been integrated into their languages. Chinese characters have been used for the longest time so far, and they are also the only ones in various ghost writing systems in ancient times. Chinese characters have always been the main official characters of China's dynasties.

Chinese characters have the characteristics of integrating image, sound and meaning. This feature is unique in world writing, so it has unique charm. Chinese characters are the treasure of China's culture for thousands of years, and they are also our lifelong mentor and friend, and everyone's spiritual home. Chinese characters can often arouse our wonderful and bold associations and give people beautiful enjoyment.

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Chinese characters became systematic characters in 1600 BC. In the early days of Shang Chao, China's civilization had developed into a fairly high-level civilization, and its most important feature was the appearance of Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is a very mature and systematic script, which laid a solid foundation for later Chinese characters. After that, Chinese characters experienced the bronze inscription, the so-called bronze inscription, and later appeared in the form of seal script and regular script, which has been used to this day.

The evolution of Chinese characters in China is actually a process in which Chinese characters are gradually standardized and stabilized in terms of glyphs and fonts. Seal script makes the number of strokes of each Chinese character fixed, and the subordinate is to establish a new stroke system, and the shape of the font gradually becomes flat square. After the birth of regular script, the shape of Chinese characters stabilized.

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