Tham khảo sách 'fun with chinese characters - 1', ngoại ngữ, nhật - pháp - hoa- others phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | -----FUN WITH- CHINESE CHARACTERS The Straits Times CoUection T Cartoonist Tan Huay Peng 0 FEDERAL PUBLICATIONS Singapore Kuala Lumpur Hong Kong Published for The Straits Times by Federal Publications S Pte Ltd 1980 Federal Publications S Pte Ltd Times Jurong 2 Jurong Port Road Singapore 2261 First published 1980 Reprinted 1982 twice 1983 twice 1985 twice 1986 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publishers. ISBN 9971 4 6072 6 Printed in Singapore by Chõng Moh Offset Printing Pte Ltd INTRODUCTION The genesis of the Chinese script is lengthy and remote. Very little of its history and origin is known to US as there is a lack of documentary evidence. Of the various legends concerning the creation of the Chinese script the comparatively acceptable legend says that it wasCang Ji i a minister of the Emperor Huáng Di jS who first invented the script. It was the outcome of an extraordinary occasion on which Cãng Ji observed the footprints of birds and beasts whose lines and shapes were distinct and discernible. Deeply inspired by the sight of this he then drew the pictures of the objects in accordance with their shapes and forms. These pictures of the primitive age were further reduced to the essentials conventionalized and in time highly stylized. In other words they were reduced for the sake of simplicity to a few lines. These picture characters were often especially in their archaic forms very expressive and were called xiàng xíng Ệt-ttA literally image shapes by the Han lexicographer xủ Shèn 7 tỉ . or pictography by many a contemporary paleographer. In some cases however the so called picture characters were distorted beyond recognition. It is understandable that concrete objects such as phenomena of nature man and his attributes animals and plants tools and .
