A joke with multiple meanings.

In my opinion, Chinese is the most beautiful language among many languages in the world. Chinese characters are the most beautiful of all languages. There are many amazing and interesting stories about Chinese characters. For example, regarding the origin of Chinese characters, there is a saying that Cang Xie created Chinese characters. According to legend, Chinese characters were created by Cang Xie. It is said that Cang Xie successfully created Chinese characters, and strange things happened. On that day, it rained like millet during the day, and I heard ghosts crying and wolves howling at night (Yuan said to read "Huai Nan Zi Ben", "I wrote a book, and it rained like millet every day, and ghosts crying and wolves howling at night". The preface to Shuo Wen Jie Zi Cang Xie's A Brief History of the Yellow Emperor sees the traces of hoofs and claws of birds and animals, which can be different today, so it is necessary to construct a book about it. ”)。 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 writing, people's wisdom is growing, people's morality is dividing, and deception and cunning are born. The world will never be peaceful, and even ghosts will not be at peace, so ghosts will cry. Of course, this is just a legend. Objectively speaking, as a symbol system of recording language, and language is the most important communication tool for human beings, it has its own conventions. It is obviously not credible that Chinese characters were artificially created by Cang Xie. The scientific conclusion should be that Cang Xie played an important role in the process of collecting, sorting out and finalizing Chinese characters.

Great changes have taken place in Chinese characters from the beginning to the present. Generally speaking, the evolution of Chinese characters has gone through seven stages: Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscription, seal script (big seal script, small seal script), official script, regular script, cursive script and running script.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions and seal script belong to ancient Chinese characters with strong pictographs. Generally, the original meanings of these characters can be analyzed from their glyphs. Such as "picking", its ancient word is a hand above and a tree with many fruits below, which means "picking". In this way, we can easily understand why the word "mining" is not the word "rice".

As a kind of calligraphy art, cursive script exists with its unique ornamental value and little practical value. It is said that there are cursive scripts in Hanxing. It shows that cursive script has matured in the early stage and has become a unique calligraphy style in the Han Dynasty. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhi was even honored as a "grass saint" because of his good cursive writing. Its cursive font is mostly composed of one stroke, full of momentum, such as flowing water, but also like hanging an ape drinking a stream, flowing water.

In the Tang Dynasty, cursive script developed into "wild cursive script", and many famous cursive writers appeared. Zhang Xu's cursive script, Li Bai's poems and Pei Min's sword dance are also called "Three Wonders in Tang Dynasty". In addition, Huai Su's cursive script was also famous in the world at that time. But the cursive script at this time has no practical value at all.

Riddles are also the embodiment of the unique charm of Chinese characters. Chinese characters are mostly combined words, but most of them can express their meanings independently. This provides the feasibility for crossword puzzles. For example, there is no water in the pool and no mud on the ground. (Answer: Yes), why do you need to kill people (Answer: D).

Because Chinese characters have the feature of polysemy, different combinations have different meanings.

Chinese character story: Once upon a time, a young man took a fancy to a girl, so he wrote a love letter to the girl he liked. Soon after the love letter was sent, the young man was waiting for the girl's reply. Young people are disappointed. The girl's letter reads: blame you for being blind. The girl calls her aunt. If I still marry you, I will be ashamed of my family! But the young man didn't give up and wrote back a letter to the girl: mom is mom, and mom is mom. There's nothing wrong with the girl, and neither can my aunt!

There are many interesting things about Chinese characters. If you are interested, you can look for the book needle in a haystack.