Beijing, April 20 (China Youth Daily, China Youth Daily reporter Wu Xiaodong) digging into Chinese character codes, exploring the context and genes, the first season of the series of documentaries "Characters" from Meeting You) Gu Yu was broadcast on the CCTV-9 documentary channel from today, inviting you to explore the vast and far-reaching world of Chinese characters and continue to tell you the story behind Chinese characters.
Today, valley rain. "Qingming sacrifices the Yellow Emperor, And Gu Yu sacrifices Cangjie". Valley rain is the last solar term of spring. According to legend, Cangjie, the historian of the Yellow Emperor of Xuanyuan, created the most primitive script in China, and Shangcang was moved by Cangjie's creation of characters and rained a rain of millet for it, which became a saying from the origin of "valley rain". The United Nations has designated GuYu as the Chinese Day of the United Nations to commemorate cangjie, the ancestor of the Chinese characters, and to promote the equal use of multiple languages, cultural diversity and the six official languages (English, French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese) within the United Nations system.
China's cultural history has an astonishing continuity, stretching from ancient times to the present day. What is the mysterious power that can connect so many generations over a long period of 5,000 years? It is not exaggerated, it is the words that connect all that is there. Spanning the long years, contemporary people spread out the books and bamboo books of thousands of years ago, and there is still no obstacle to reading, which has to be said to be a miracle of civilization.
Chinese characters were the earliest writing instruments to appear in East Asia, and the Chinese writing system continued for thousands of years. At a time when some other ancient scripts have long since withdrawn from the stage of human writing, Chinese characters are still habitually used by more than a billion people. People use Chinese characters to express their joys and sorrows, just as they have in the past few thousand years.
The first season of the documentary series "Characters" from Meeting You has a total of 25 episodes, each episode focuses on a Chinese character, and every 5 words form a theme. The first theme introduced during Gu Yu was "The Origin of Civilization": When words appear, this world is not just the world, it means that we have established civilization. Before civilization, ancestors only lived alone, and after civilization, we can pass on, and life is no longer only continued through future generations. Since then, information, experience, and lessons have been freed from the half-life, so that future generations do not need to explore from scratch. The long night of eternity was broken by words.
Source: China Youth Daily client