The charm of Chinese characters

Chinese characters have gone through a long period of thousands of years, and she is the only surviving hieroglyph with many aesthetic and philosophical characters in the world today. Chinese characters can be said to be a crystallization and symbol of the wisdom of the Chinese nation. There are endless charm and magical power in the four-sided world of Chinese characters.

Chinese characters have two-dimensional characteristics: one is pictographic, and another is knowing. The pictograms of Chinese characters fix according to the features of things. It reflects the evolution of Chinese characters. Chinese characters are first drawn. That is, the shape of things depicted. Then, over time, they are continuously standardized and fixed slowly. The knowing of Chinese characters is closely related to the pictographic features of Chinese characters. The pictogram itself contains the feature of knowing. That is people know the meaning when they see the shape of Chinese characters. It can say that pictograms and knowing harmoniously integrate into the structure of Chinese characters.

The structure of Chinese characters gives people a sense of stability and dignity as a whole, which is that the left and right, up and downsides of the Chinese characters are in a state of mutual balance and mutual opposition and unity. Chinese characters give people not only a sense of wholeness but also an aesthetic sense. That is the people will feel a sense of aesthetic pleasure when they see Chinese characters. It is because the form of Chinese characters has artistic characteristics, which means that Chinese characters' radicals are mostly depictions of natural shapes. At the same time, Chinese characters can also enter the artistic conception created by Chinese characters themselves. 

The structure and formation of Chinese characters often reflect the characteristics of traditional Chinese culture. When creating Chinese words, Chinese people cast their cultural mentality into the shape and structure of Chinese characters. For example, the word "Forbearance," like a knife on the heart, vividly expresses a mental state of being unable to stop. The word  "Forbearance" also conveys a unique mentality of Chinese people. That is, Chinese people are the depression and publicity of self-personality, which can be said to be an impossibility for perfection from the good side, and to take a step back and broaden the sky. From the negative side, it can say that people lose themselves and bury themselves. There are many Chinese characters to convey the cultural mentality of the Chinese people as the word "ren," which can be said to be too numerous to mention. The Chinese characters show the cultural mentality of the Chinese people, which is a characteristic that other characters do not have and cannot compare.

One of the magical social effects of Chinese characters is the reason why the Chinese nation can be in a unified situation in the vast living land. Chinese characters play an important role in maintaining unity. Although China has the north-south land separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, and there are many different dialects of the southern accent from the north, it is reasonable to say that such a country and such people are difficult to reunify and communicate. But in fact, it is not so urgent and has a vast Land of China with many people is unified, and everyone communicates with each other. One of the important reasons for the formation of this situation is that Chinese characters play an important intermediary role because Chinese characters are hieroglyphs with fixed and specific meanings, which are officially determined and recognized by everyone. Although there are differences in the languages of our regions, because we all share the same Chinese characters, we communicate with each other in the world of Chinese characters and seek consensus.