According to legend, Chinese characters commonly used in our lives were created by Cang Xie, a historian of the Yellow Emperor. It is said that Cang Xie has four eyes. When he saw the footprints of animals and birds on the ground, he was inspired and began to write.

Legend has it that it happened after Cang Xie succeeded in creating ci? Rain millet, ghost crying at night? Strange elephant. It means that on the day when Cang Xie succeeded in creating characters, it rained like millet during the day and heard ghosts crying at night. Why does it rain like rain? Because Cang Xie created words, words can be used to convey ideas and record things, which is naturally worth celebrating. But why do ghosts cry? Some people say that because of words, people's wisdom is growing, people's morality is separating, deception and cunning are breeding, and the world will never have peace, even ghosts will not have peace. This legend endows writing with witchcraft.

The legend of Cangjie's word-making only appeared at the end of the Warring States Period. In fact, you should know that writing is constantly evolving. It can't be said that it was originally created by one person. Writing should be a kind of collective wisdom.

On this issue, I agree with what Mr. Zhu Ziqing said in his classic conversation. Teacher Zhu believes that Cang Xie's theory of word creation can't be fully believed, and words are not created by one person, but the result of continuous development and evolution. Of course, Cang Xie's characterization did not come out of thin air. This legend appeared at the end of the Warring States period, probably to meet the needs of the flow of people at that time.

Secondly, what are the rules for using Chinese characters?

Literacy is the first step in education, so many people try to write a good dictionary. Until the Eastern Han Dynasty and Emperor Wudi, a man named Xu Shen wrote Shuo Wen Jie Zi. This is an epoch-making calligraphy book with more than 9,000 words, each of which has an explanation. He also analyzed the radicals, determined the radicals and divided more than 9,000 words into 540 radicals. This practice has been used to this day.

In Shuo Wen Jie Zi, Xu Shen summed up six laws of Chinese characters, which are called? Six books? ：

One is? Pictographic? , for example? Sun and moon? Equivalence word;

And second? Refers to things? , for example? Up and down? Wait;

Three is? Do you know? Usually two or more words are combined into one word, such as? Not going? For what? Wu? ,? Human speech? For what? Letter? ;

Four is? Sound shape? , is also a combination of two words, one for shape and the other for sound, such as? Rivers? Water is a shape. Work? Characters are sounds, and pictophonetic characters are the most convenient and extensive method of word formation;

Five is? Transfer? , is a word deformation, such as? Testing? And then what? Old? ;

Six is? Borrow? , for example? Order? The original meaning is the number, is it borrowed from the county magistrate? Order? Wait a minute.

Xu Shen, for this? Six books? As a rule, the usage rules of Chinese characters are given, which are also used to guide the whole book.