The History and Origin of Chinese Characters (I)

The History and Origin of Chinese Characters (I)

The present article is the introductory section from a larger study entitled The History and Culture of Chinese Characters. The aim of this paper is not only to offer a better understanding of what is believed to be the origin of Chinese characters, but to further arouse the interest into this subject. I will first offer a short historical view of the Chinese characters by means of synthesizing the most relevant bibliographical sources in this respect. Furthermore, I will briefly describe three of the most important stories related to the origin of the Chinese characters.

Keywords: Chinese characters, history, origin, script, Fu Xi, Cang Jie

1. Han Jian Tang, The Chinese Characters (2014)
2. Shi Ding Guo and Luo Wei Dong, The Wisdom of Chinese Characters (2013)

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