Cultural Value of Chinese Characters in Academic Papers on Chinese Characters
Abstract: The factors of Chinese civilization recorded in Chinese characters have not been paid due attention. Under the background that Chinese is increasingly recognized by the world cultural values, Chinese characters should be respected and interpreted scientifically and reasonably. People without heroes are blind and stupid, and people without faith are lifeless. Only by combining modern scientific knowledge with ancient thinking art can the study of Chinese characters be carried forward.
Keywords: social and cultural values agree with each other, but different characters, cultures and languages worship.
The earth is the most beautiful planet known in the solar system so far, and language is the most commendable and magical invention of human beings on this splendid planet. The invention and use of Chinese characters is a great miracle in the history of human civilization. With the increasing awareness of China's traditional culture among all ethnic groups in the world, Chinese fever has spread in many countries in various forms, such as Chinese proficiency test, Chinese character proficiency test and second language acquisition. The global upsurge of learning Chinese characters is in the ascendant, forming a once-in-a-lifetime humanistic and social atmosphere. In the gilded era of cultural openness, scientific prosperity and academic freedom, China scholars who have the unique right to speak China culture have the responsibility to explain such rich and heavy human cultural wealth with their undisputed right to speak. In order to infiltrate and nourish the world with the expression of cultural resources, we should not forget that we are descendants of China with thousands of years of cultural heritage, let alone worry about cultural collision. We urgently need to find a suitable way to show the ancient true meaning of national culture through Chinese characters during the day. It should not study the political theory between the lines, nor can it study the language and characters with the method of political science. It is to use cultural theory to study Chinese characters, restore the original intention of the ancients in the ancient context, and explore the historical, cultural and social practical significance of Chinese characters. It should be a kind of philology under the social and cultural background.
People have always judged whether a language is developed, advanced or primitive, often focusing on whether it is the common carrier of modern science and technology, rather than whether it has rich and profound cultural connotations. As a common carrier of modern information technology, English has the honor to be regarded by China as the value symbol of modern civilization. The upsurge of learning English for all people has distorted the academic atmosphere of at least four generations in China. There are two reasons for this strange situation. One is the arrogance of Yelang, the ancient emperor of China, and the other is that modern literati have no sense of inferiority and worship foreign things. People envy that more than 70% of scientific and technological documents in the world are written in English, but they ignore that more than 90% of human cultural classics are recorded in Chinese characters. Being in the torrent of human multicultural intersection, I mistakenly think that 5000 years of civilization cannot be integrated with 300 years of science and technology. What's the danger of being a big country in science and technology? Fiscal cliff? Ignoring yourself is also on the edge of the cultural abyss. If a nation fully accepts the foreign cultures of other nations, its own national language is bound to blend into other national languages soon, or to be precise, it will lose its communicative function and gradually disappear. In the long run, the magnificent culture that was once brilliant may be buried in the carnival feast of the doctoral country. There are thousands of languages in the world, most of which have not formed their own characters. Regional languages with limited use are disappearing from modern society at an unprecedented speed. It is unnecessary and impossible to interfere with the progress of social civilization brought about by this phenomenon of cultural integration. There used to be social organizations that carried out meaningless rescue for those languages that were limited in scope and quickly disappeared. Historical development has proved that this is futile labor. In the increasingly frequent social and cultural exchange activities of human beings, it is necessary to build a modern traditional Chinese phonetic system with systematic vision and contact methods with the help of the theory of six Chinese characters.
Looking back on human history and social reality, it is not difficult to find that culture is a kind of value existence that the whole society can enjoy and share, rather than a special luxury that a specific social class entertains itself. The disappearance of the once glorious Mayan civilization in Central America is the crux of its loss. Assyrian culture, which disappeared from people's field of vision earlier, was ignored and simple. China culture, with its profound and extensive cultural implications, has cleverly avoided the fatal weakness of the above two cultures. Under the impact of the surging wave of post-modern technological forces, it has not declined, but has been improving day by day. Up to now, the population who use Chinese characters has exceeded one fifth of all mankind. China, whose mother tongue is Chinese, cannot ignore this objective fact. Unfortunately, in modern times, we have spent a hundred years desperately pursuing a rootless duckweed culture. In recent years, there have been more shallow and obscure. Brain damage, Martian characters, mortal objects, Fiona Fang body, Zhen Xuan body? It's very popular. People blindly flatter and follow? Did Fang Hung-chien wantonly belittle and trample on it again? Kong Yiji? Vague Europeanized sentences are popular, and some foreign words are recited to represent advanced human culture. Some consciousness not only has the desire and strength to trample on ancient culture, but also has the potential and crisis to destroy splendid civilization.
Chinese characters have a long history and a large number. Language worship is one of the primitive religions of our ancestors. Our ancestors lived in a strong atmosphere of worshipping natural forces. Cang Xie, an outstanding expert of China ancestors' coinage, did not create words for social needs, let alone for satisfaction? Labor demand? . Shang Dynasty worshiped gods, ghosts and gods, Zhou Dynasty worshiped rites and ancestors. The ancestors of Shang and Zhou dynasties wanted to express some demands to the ancestors of ghosts and gods, and the language content was mostly related to primitive religions such as sacrifice and prayer. Pay attention to the magic and mystery of words, and even the occasions where words are used are shrouded in solemn and mysterious religious colors. From ancient nursery rhymes to vows of eternal love, people can smell the legacy of this ancient culture and feel the language worship complex that pervades our ancestors' lives. The Qin dynasty respected the law and pursued legislation to govern the world, while the Han dynasty valued people and the value of life. Qin and Han dynasties turned to pursue practicality and fluency, and Chinese characters turned to record events instead of just? Recording language? Express ideas. But until now, most people in China still believe that God is omniscient and omnipresent. In order to prevent their souls from being thrown into the frying pan and purgatory by Naiheqiao's bull's head and horse's face, people try their best to consciously restrain their words and deeds to keep their innocence all their lives. They would rather give up their wisdom than deceive themselves and live a poor life. Chinese characters can't be created overnight. The cultural power of the feudal empire for thousands of years is deeply rooted in the hearts of scholars. This group consciousness originated from religious belief is not only the spiritual basis of the self-discipline behavior of the Chinese nation, but also a vital social stabilizer for thousands of years.
The cruelty and harshness of feudal monarchy created the unique style of China culture. All social strata, including monarchs and emperors, show a hero worship complex. People turn psychological heroes with the same substance into different models in different forms, which makes heroes complicated? Hero? Paradigms are different, so all social classes have their own discourse forms, such as worship of gods, saints, upright officials, emperors and chivalrous people. This kind of collective unconsciousness is contained in the cultural narrative mode throughout the ages, which makes the Chinese character culture present a confusing culture? The composition of Chinese characters naturally and implicitly reflects their characteristics. Culture? Characters are full of feudal history, and China philology has become an isolated island of science after being exaggerated by some shocked scholars. Robinson, who is in it, is too busy making a living to treasure, and the cultural heritage around him is not regarded as outdated ancient coins but as a self-reliant treasure. Treasure hunters, their task is to explore the treasures of ancient culture, seize the leftovers they have obtained and conduct archaeological research in the form of cultural relics. As a result, Chinese characters are extracted from the treasures of ancient culture and divided into three different disciplines: seemingly independent but mixed words, phonology and exegesis. The far-reaching ancient writing system has been used as an intellectual Rubik's cube that can be disassembled and combined at will. Occasionally, some people try to combine words, phonology and exegesis for interspersed observation, but they often die in doubt. This is the case with the long history of Chinese character research, which is always full of research results linking the past with the present or making Gu Ni serve the present. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is a self-enclosed cultural symbol system. This system itself presents only a corner of the spiritual life of a specific class in a social group, rather than the whole picture of social real life. Oracle Bone Inscriptions was not invented and used by the working people, nor did it serve them. Several minority languages that have survived in the southwest minority areas are still only the unique skills of specific people, and they are spread among former chiefs or wizards. Yi language, Miao Wen language and Shui script are all the same. It is precisely because of the spread and application of Oracle bone inscriptions as aristocratic culture that it is difficult to be fully interpreted by the descendants of laborers. Dongba, a rare pictographic movable type in the world, still has remnants and is called Mosuo by foreign linguists. That is the written language used by Dongba to write scriptures and witchcraft. Being called Mosuo people plays down its special role, but at the same time it makes the name more objective. With the help of the values of Chinese characters in contemporary society, a comprehensive and systematic modern interpretation of Chinese characters will also feel inadequate. It is somewhat reluctant to interpret a cultural system that has lasted for thousands of years with the so-called modern theory that took a hundred years to form. Only by observing and understanding the theory of Six Books with the unique way of thinking of the ancients, and integrating all kinds of ancient social and cultural knowledge, can we build a systematic, complete and true theoretical system of Chinese character configuration.
It is worth mentioning that a large number of Oracle Bone Inscriptions have not been read so far, not because people are not familiar with the writing itself, but because we are not familiar with the social life scenes recorded by the writing. In fact, the linguistic meaning of this Chinese character is the same as the original, and the pronunciation is similar to that of the ancients thousands of years ago, so that the difference between the two will not be greater than the difference between the northern and southern dialects of Chinese today. Unfortunately, due to the lack of understanding of the situation and significance described, it eventually led to an indelible language barrier. There is a more important factor that is often ignored by the academic community. That is to say, even when Oracle Bone Inscriptions wrote it, not everyone kept it a secret. Due to the lack of understanding of the situation and significance described, it is not mysterious or surprising that people today can't fully understand Oracle characters. The situation is the same as that of ordinary people reading religious scriptures in Sanskrit today. Reading from scripts is bound to be puzzling. Needless to say, Oracle Bone Inscriptions has a history of more than 3,000 years. The use of Oracle characters has obvious social class limitations. The invention and users of Oracle characters are mainly witches who specialize in divination and some people with special hobbies and talents. Since its invention, its purpose and function are mainly used to record sacrificial activities rather than express language directly. It is only because the sacrificial activities themselves have to be expressed by language that Oracle characters are reluctantly linked with language. Oracle Bone Inscriptions, whether in form or content, is mainly used to communicate with God rather than to record human language. They are self-generated figures, showing the dignity of the nobility and the mystery of religion. To express and realize the sanctity of language and writing in a vague way. Whether the use of language is regarded as a kind of. Spiritual pastime? Or? Cultural consumption? , belongs to the patent of aristocratic officials and gentry.
So far, no account books, letters and other application contents have been found in all unearthed Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which shows that it is far from the daily life of the people and is also out of touch with the oral language of the nobles. The content has nothing to do with the daily life of ordinary people, and it is destined to have only a very low awareness among the people. This kind of religious writing records the special events in aristocratic life and is used by wizards and nobles to show off themselves in special cultural ceremonies. Because it can't be recognized, understood and accepted by the public, with the economic depression caused by Pan Geng's moving to Yin, the Oracle bone culture declined rapidly with the decline of the court culture of Yin Dynasty. All ethnic groups used to have some special characters, which were used to write in various religious ceremonies, such as sacred script characters in ancient Egypt, Mayan characters in Central America, Oracle Bone Inscriptions in China during the Yin and Shang Dynasties, Ba Ti in Qin Shu of Qin Dynasty, Roman flower characters in Europe, peach symbols and so-called auspicious characters circulating among the people in China. That kind of writing is solemn and mysterious, and you can never get tired of writing. Words used in daily communication must be simple and quick. Religious calligraphy has rules and no style, such as amber, colorful clouds and small circles. Concise use of calligraphy can only write styles due to disorganization, such as Yan, Liu, Europe, Su, Contemporary Shu and Yao.
There is no evidence that Chinese characters are the direct inheritance of Oracle characters. Zhao, a descendant of Yin people, has never found any descendants of Oracle bones, but can Oracle bones be regarded as a language symbol system? Dormancy? Silent evidence. How can we take into account such an important event as national culture when the remnants of the nobility were still busy as a bee? This sad fact has caused a huge rift in the whole culture of China, forming an insurmountable historical and cultural rift. We latecomers standing on the other side of the Rift Valley urgently need to build a cultural bridge, reach the secret realm of ancient culture, realize the accurate interpretation of the closed language symbol system of Oracle in a cultural way, and truly realize the exchange and dialogue with the ancient sages. For example, Zhou people believe in dreams, so there are many words about dreams. Synonyms are prominent because there are many words. Like a dream, I feel sleepy Sleeping asleep, of course, is a dream. I'm sleepy and have something to say. That is to say, talk in your sleep. However, these two words have been misinterpreted and misunderstood in the literature for many years, which has caused many pen and ink lawsuits. Xiao Zhuan is not a direct inheritance of Oracle characters. There are few connections between Biography and Oracle Bone Inscriptions, but there are many differences. Part of seal script is the same as that written by Oracle Bone Inscriptions, but it has nothing to do with its meaning. Is there one of Ding Yu unearthed in later generations? Recruit? The motives of characters and configurations are far from biographies, and the meaning of characters is completely irrelevant. In fact, they are two synonyms, not the same character.
In order to make the hexagrams, prophecies or contracts determined by disputes be preserved for a long time so as to be circulated, the ancestors agreed to solemnly carve these contents on hard objects that are easy to be preserved for a long time, and they first thought of carving stones. Carving the life experience or negotiation results on the cliff is by no means how romantic the ancestors are. Their sculpture is only a part of harsh real life, not an artistic pursuit. Ancestors are not romantic enough to write down or even carve cliffs when something happens. Rock paintings can't use sticks and bamboo sticks, but use knives, and the earliest? Knife? It's just a cone-shaped stone needle, a sharp stone piece or a sharp bamboo. However, the ancients soon discovered that stone carvings were seriously worn out by tools, and it was not easy to find sharp and hard tools needed by a large number of stone carvings. Stone carving is very difficult, and the carved stone works are easy to be destroyed and cannot be transported at will. The precious writing carrier is hard to find, and the engraving is easy to collapse and be fragile, which greatly limits the content and dissemination of records. Reality forced our ancestors to give up the difficult-to-read cliff stone carvings, and finally chose tortoise shells and animal bones as writing carriers. Of course, there is also an equally important reason, that is, tortoise shell animal bones are the worship of ancestors and are considered spiritual in themselves. As described in Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi? Did the ancients buy shellfish and precious turtles? Turtle is the first of the four spirits of Long Linfeng. So carving Oracle Bone Inscriptions has become the best choice for people. In the mysterious religious occasions of wizards and the difficult and complicated carving scenes of craftsmen, the words and languages are out of touch. The disconnect between Chinese and English makes Chinese characters special? Super dialect? This phenomenon has created many illiterate people who are eloquent in the cultural life of the Chinese nation. The world custom of PayPal turtle was popular in ancient times, but it did not form a perfect Chinese character system. It is an interesting research topic whether tortoise shells and ox bones help Chinese characters to make a head, or whether Chinese characters make tortoise shells with ox bones grow a face. It is necessary to thoroughly study the history of Chinese characters in order to finally uncover the mystery hanging over it. It may be reasonable to speculate on early ancestors. Pen? This is just a temporary bamboo stick. Find some sticks with different thicknesses and dip them in indigo cinnabar and other pigments. You can only write one word at a time. And once you use this pen to write articles one after another, what people see is a so-called? What did you say? . Carving Chinese characters into squares is not the decision of saints or the choice of wise men, but the synthesis of many natural factors. It is suitable to write on sand or bark with bamboo and wood, but it is not convenient to preserve and spread. In order to tell people about the great events in life, warn or teach future generations, the ancients chose seal cutting as the main recording method. However, seal cutting is difficult to make the strokes round and plump, and they need a language and thinking carrier that is more convenient to write, faster to transmit and easier to collect. From the five sons in the Spring and Autumn Period to the seven males in the Warring States Period, there is one kind? Harmony but difference? Multiculturalism. At that time, language and cultural exchanges were mostly utilitarian collisions. Just as revolutionaries learn English in order to learn from foreigners, eventually overthrow the emperor and repair the rebellion, the purpose of learning English now should also be to learn from advanced human science and technology and learn from each other's strengths. Only by understanding in this way can we not deviate from basic social common sense and violate scientific ethics. What are Chinese characters like? Ideographic writing? As long as you can express your feelings, font writing is often not particularly important. As for pronunciation, it doesn't matter if you go your own way. Based on their different social, political, economic and cultural status, all social classes can create Chinese characters according to their own likes and dislikes. People in different social situations will show different attitudes towards the same social event, and cultural values will be expressed in different ways through Chinese characters. The natural phenomena of birth, illness, death and illness include different social classes, and daily utensils can also show status. At the same time, the writing forms of Chinese characters have greatly increased, and all walks of life have finally modulated Chinese characters into a pile of antiques with mixed tastes and omniscient knowledge. However, movable Chinese characters are an indispensable thinking tool in our life for a moment, and they are by no means dispensable antiques used to decorate the facade. The ancient Chinese characters seem complicated, and their cultural implications have not been accurately understood and properly accepted by modern people. It is not surprising that we often see and hear some funny research results.
Chinese characters, which have gradually matured and stereotyped since the bronze inscriptions in the Western Zhou Dynasty, have the characteristics of social universality, which can not only record, but also pay more attention to expressing feelings, thoughts and concepts. Nobles carved words on bronzes not only to record an event, but also to express and declare a certain point of view. These views need to be understood not only by God, but also by future generations. As we later pursued, entering the classroom, teaching materials and brains, we not only stipulated that people should memorize it, but also wanted future generations to know everything. This symbol system with strong expression consciousness and function is the writing in the sense of modern linguistics. It is intended to make a comprehensive and systematic modern interpretation of Chinese characters with the help of the literal values of contemporary society, and thus form the so-called "? Modern way of speaking? It is inevitable that there are some shortcomings in interpreting a cultural system that has lasted for thousands of years. We often grieve for a large number of Oracle bones scattered overseas in the past, but we still have tens of thousands of Oracle bones in our hands, except for the early ones. Four halls of Oracle bones? People can't understand it, and it doesn't take much. Modern science and technology can't compare with traditional culture at all, so we can't compare Simu Wuding with an aircraft carrier. As a cultural derivative, Oracle Bone Inscriptions has made great achievements in the study of language value, but cultural research is in the ascendant. Shouldn't the academic hall be transformed into a dazzling array of things? Cultural supermarket? Its historical, cultural or sociological value needs to be confirmed urgently.
The research on the motivation of Chinese character configuration originated in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Cang Xie is a saint worthy of our commemoration and praise. During the Warring States period, in order to use six languages, the theory of Chinese character configuration was gradually formed. The theory of six books and complete works gradually matured in Qin dynasty and perfected in the late Han dynasty. Without understanding the ancient dialectical thinking method, it is difficult to accept the six-book theory with thousands of years of tradition. Therefore, the more the theory of six books reaches later generations, the more scholars feel and are confused. Even criticizing the meaning of Zhouyi today? Feudal superstition about the meaning of tomorrow is not scientific enough to criticize Chinese medicine. In fact, aren't Chinese characters the main records like European and American characters? Phoneme? What are the main elements in Chinese characters? Yi Su? , that is, social and cultural elements. Understanding this cultural element requires considerable historical and cultural knowledge. In the past century, those cultural elements in Chinese characters have unfortunately been misjudged as feudal dross and despised. Chinese characters live in daily life, which makes people? A little closer? People have the courage to say yes and no to Chinese characters that have been circulated for thousands of years. If we don't make an overall and systematic study of the Six Books and don't understand the ancient thinking art in the study of Chinese characters, it will inevitably lead to different opinions, resulting in a research situation similar to that of the blind touching the elephant. Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, some people complained that Liushu theory could not explain individual inscriptions, but they didn't know that Liushu theory had nothing to do with Oracle Bone Inscriptions's inscriptions from beginning to end. Using the last six books to predict the Oracle characters of the previous generation is like commenting on why grandpa is not like a grandson. Derrida, a French philosopher, said with deep affection: People who have unique views on human language and writing will surely be in full swing. ? We should avoid paying attention to one thing and lose sight of another, and get rid of the embarrassing situation of clinging to the disabled. The study of Six Books can be traced back to Jin Jia, find Kai Lee and others, and participate in mutual investigation and comparative study, which must be based on seal script. Only six books can be used to explore Ci, but six books cannot be criticized according to Ci. We should not only observe the chronology by chronology, but also make a historical comparative study by diachronic method, which is the basic direction that Chinese character research needs to grasp.
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