Friends, do you know when the formation of the Chinese character system began?
What are the oldest texts in the world?
What is the only script in the world that has survived to this day?
That's right! It's the Kanji we use every day!
So, do you know the following Chinese characters?
These words are "rain", "door (door)", is it very graphic? Smart you can guess eight or nine based on the image! This is the source of chinese characters - oracle bones.
About 3500 years ago, we were still in the Shang Dynasty in China, how can we invent a kind of written record of a thing? According to their familiar bodies and colorful nature, the wise ancestors selected images from them, "taking the near body and taking the things from afar", and created a very vivid Chinese character.
The oracle bone is a record symbol of language, which enabled the ancestors to enter the glorious civilization from the flood and grass. In ancient times, mountains and rivers were blocked and it was inconvenient to communicate, but because the Shang Dynasty script (oracle bone, etc.) was easy to understand and remember, people in different regions began to use it. The emergence of Oracle has broken the geographical restrictions, promoted exchanges and consensus between multiple ethnic groups in China, and greatly reduced the cost of communication. In the past, the Roman Empire stretched across Europe and dominated the West, and later split into many small countries with different languages, which were closely related to the variety of pinyin scripts used. The same Chinese characters record the common joys and sorrows of the sons and daughters of China, and avoid the hidden danger of splitting due to the difference of characters, so although There are divisions in China's history due to war and chaos, they are then unified and always maintain the majesty of the great powers in the East.
In the long river of history, with the continuous evolution of oracle bones, the diverse civilizations on the land of China have been able to communicate and collide with each other with Chinese characters as a link, and then condensed into Chinese civilization. And because China has always used the Chinese characters evolved from the oracle bone, the semantics of ancient and modern times are in the same vein, and the teachings of the sages and sages have been passed on for thousands of years. There are four ancient countries in the world civilization, but Chinese culture has not seen the phenomenon of broken cultural veins and cultural faults. You know, Westerners have to read the works of Shakespeare in Middle English, which is beyond the ability of ordinary English professors. After 3500 years, Chinese can still interpret the oracle bone according to the laws of the evolution of Chinese characters, thus "deciphering" the mysteries of the Yin Shang era.
Therefore, for us 3500 years later, writing should not only be a carrier of language, but also the root of Chinese culture.
Since 2010, the United Nations has designated the "Gu Rain" of the 24th solar term of the Chinese lunar calendar as the "Chinese Day of the United Nations" to commemorate the contribution of Cangjie, the "ancestor of Chinese characters".
To commemorate this special day, we invited Professor Huang Tianshu, a famous scholar who has devoted his life to the study of paleography, to give a live lecture. Professor Huang works at the Center for Research and Conservation of Unearthed Documents at Tsinghua University, and on April 20, 15:30-16:30, he will lead everyone to explore the mysteries of Oracle! The theme of this live lecture is "Hieroglyphs in Oracle".
Yellow Sky Tree
Male, born in 1949, from Putian, Fujian Province. Professor of the Center for Research and Conservation of Unearthed Documents and the Department of Chinese of Tsinghua University, doctoral supervisor.
Member of the Expert Committee on the Inheritance and Development of Paleography and Chinese Civilization (2020), Top Ten Education News Figures in the Capital (2019), Member of the Expert Committee on the Research and Application of Oracle and Other Ancient Scripts (2018), Honorary Title of Scientific, Technical and Management Talents with Outstanding Contributions in Beijing (2016), Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor in Beijing (2013), The Fifth Beijing Famous Teacher Award for Higher Education (2009), "Top-notch Innovative Talents Hundred Talents Program" of beijing Municipal Education Commission (2005), Member of the Discipline Review Group of the Chinese discipline of the Academic Degree Committee of the Fifth and Sixth State Council (2003), Beijing Cross-century Excellent Talents Project (1998).
He is the executive director of the Chinese Character Society, the director of the Chinese Paleography Research Society, and the director of the Chinese Yinshang Culture Society. Visiting Professor of the Department of Chinese, National Taiwan University, Visiting Researcher of the Institute of Ancient Literature of the Forbidden City Research Institute, etc. Member of the Academic Steering Committee of "Research on Folk Classics and Texts", "Unearthed Documents", "Comprehensive Research Collection of Unearthed Documents", "Ancient Chinese Studies", "Chinese Characters (New)" (Taipei), "Chinese Character Studies", "Ancient Books Research", "Yindu Academic Journal", "Chinese Character Museum Journal", "Liyun Linguistic Journal", "Excavated Literature Language Research", "Journal of Chinese Characters", "Chinese Character Chinese Studies", "Ancient Chinese Studies Series", etc.
The lecture is suitable for:
Students, those interested in the origin of Chinese characters
Come and scan the QR code in the live room below! Small partners who are interested in participating in the discussion can scan the code to join the group
China Live Broadcast Room WEBSITE:
http://wx.china.com.cn/scene/content/article/straight/11864
Tencent Meeting Number:
441581277
Tencent Conference Address:
https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/6Mj81M7daC4M
April 20, 2022, 15:30-16:30
Let's explore the mysteries of Oracle!
Jiang Lili | mastermind
| of the Education Channel of China Net produce
This article is exclusive to China's education channel. Reprints must be authorized, and the author and source must be indicated, and those who violate it will be investigated.