There are many legends in ancient mythology, and one of the people whose contributions are still to be sung and praised, this person is Cangjie. Cangjie is said to be a subordinate of the Yellow Emperor, surnamed Hou Gang (侯刚), known as Shi Huangshi (史皇氏), who is said to have been born with four pupils. Only eight people with heavy pupils recorded in history are: Cangjie, Chong'er, Yu Shun, Xiang Yu, Lü Guang, Gao Yang, Yu Juluo, and Li Yu.
Each of them is a figure to be reckoned with in history, and Cangjie needless to say. A few other people you may not be familiar with are briefly introduced here. First of all, Jin Wen Gongzhong'er was one of the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the national strength of the Jin state was quite strong at that time, Lü Guang was the king of Houliang, Gao Yang was the founder of Northern Qi, Yu Juluo was said to be a Sui and Tang general who could kill Li Yuanba, and Li Yu was the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and everyone may be more familiar with his poetry than his identity, that is, he once wrote the sentence "How much sorrow can you ask the king?" It is like a river of spring water flowing eastward. " sigh. It can be seen that people who can be born with heavy pupils since ancient times are not simple.
Cangjie's contribution as a veteran figure of the heavy pupil is naturally much greater than that of several other people, I believe that this matter should not be unfamiliar to everyone, and the biggest contribution he made was to create the script, so as to lay the foundation for the evolution of our later generations of writing. Nowadays, words are used in the records of our lives bit by bit, and the use of words is like a common thing, which is the blessing of cangjie.
However, before Cangjie made writing, people had no writing, so how did they record the exchange of canons and letters? This brings us to mention a relatively unfamiliar form, the earliest way of recording in ancient times is called knotted rope chronicle. As literally it means, knotted rope memorization is the recording of large and small events by knotting knots on a rope.
The specific operation method is very simple and easy to understand, for example, today you are very happy to be married, think that this is a big event in your life, and want to record it, then tie a knot on the rope. After a while, your child is born, and then you want to record it again, so you tie another knot in the rope. In this way, whenever something big happens, add a knot to the rope and rely on these knots to record the big event you want to write down.
But obviously everyone should also find this way to record things, it is obviously testing people's memory, ah, which is different from the purpose of wanting to record things, people record things are not afraid of long time and forget important events? What is the point of just tying a knot, in the final analysis, it is still examining one's memory.
Cangjie as the yellow emperor's historian because of the memory is not very good out of some small problems, it is said that Cangjie in a time to the Yellow Emperor to sort out the "negotiation materials", due to the misrememberment of historical facts, resulting in the Yellow Emperor in the border negotiations with the Yan Emperor lost, after which Cangjie was very remorseful, he asked the Yellow Emperor to resign, to the four seas and clouds to find a way to better record the event.
Cangjie thought about it day and night, and after wandering in many ways, he finally had the opportunity to design the mountains and rivers, grasses, trees, birds, animals, insects and fish he saw into a simple and easy-to-understand symbol for recording and use. After that, he took the symbols he had invented to explain them to people, and found that people could understand them. Delighted, he returned to his tribe and reported the matter to the Yellow Emperor. After hearing this, the Yellow Emperor felt very clever, not only restored Cangjie's official position and reused him more from then on, and then recommended Cangjie's method to other tribes, and gradually this way of recording gradually spread, which is the origin of people's earliest use of writing.
The evolution of Chinese characters to this day is inseparable from the merits of the ancient period of pre-artificial characters. At the same time, the emergence of writing has also made China's archaeology traceable, and has made immortal contributions to the field of historical research in China, and it is truly deserved to call it the greatest invention of China.
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