According to legend, Cang Xie was a historian and creator of Chinese characters in the era of the Yellow Emperor. Huangdi was the leader of the tribal alliance in ancient Central Plains. With the society entering the stage of large-scale tribal alliances, the foreign affairs between alliances are becoming more and more frequent, and it is urgent to establish a set of communication symbols shared by all alliances, so the work of collecting and sorting out the common characters was handed over to historian Cang Xie.
Chinese characters mainly come from recordable pictographs, which are the basis of the formation and development of Chinese character system. Later, it evolved for thousands of years, including Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, seal script, official script, regular script, cursive script, running script and so on. Everyone is using regular script, but it has not been completely finalized.
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Chinese characters are an important tool to carry culture. At present, there are a lot of ancient books written in Chinese characters. Chinese characters are the common writing system in different dialects and even languages. In ancient Japan, Korean Peninsula, Viet Nam, Ryukyu Islands, and the Republic of Lanfang in Borneo, Chinese characters were once the official document system of the country, so China culture played an important role in the spread and sharing of neighboring civilizations in history.
Because the relationship between Chinese characters and pronunciation is not very close, it is easy to be borrowed by other ethnic groups, such as Japan, the Korean peninsula and Vietnam. There was a historical stage when only Chinese characters were written and no Chinese was spoken. This feature of Chinese characters plays an important role in maintaining a cultural circle-a nation full of various dialect groups that cannot communicate.