The interest of Chinese characters

The symbol system for recording Chinese characters is an extremely complicated writing system. Some Chinese characters can be divided into many parts. Because of the ideographic function of Chinese characters, these parts can represent certain semantics respectively. Therefore, the analysis and interpretation of Chinese characters has almost become a science.

In recent years, some scholars believe that Chinese characters have topological properties and can be studied by topological methods. Topology is a branch of pure mathematics, which studies the invariance of graphs under topological transformation and the positional relationship between objects. The phonetic and morphological structures of some Chinese characters present very complicated patterns. For example, left-shaped right sound (river), left-shaped right sound (top), upper-shaped lower sound (flower), upper-shaped lower sound (pear), inner-shaped external sound (title) and inner sound appearance (disease). However, this complex structure is fixed in most cases.

For example:

First, "mouth" is the word "containing" under "today"; "Kou" is a word "Yin" beside "Jin".

B, a word "buckle" plus a word "ten" can form many words such as "ancient, you, A, Shen, Ye". After years of research, linguists have to admit that the radicals of Chinese characters have no definite number, no position and no certain order, which is quite confusing and difficult to sort out. In addition, Chinese characters have sounds and meanings, which are more difficult to understand.

1. Some Chinese characters are novel because they are true or associated with coincidence.

For example, the word "ancient" can be understood as: Shihekou, which means that everything passed down from generation to generation is ancient.

The word "home" means there are pigs under the house. Some people have verified that this is the way of life of the ancients.

A foreign scholar was shocked when he knew the word "ship": Isn't this Noah's ark and the eight people on board recorded in the Bible? Oh!

2. Most Chinese characters can be disassembled, which forms an interesting phenomenon: measuring or splitting Chinese characters. It gradually developed into a skill. The widely circulated story of measuring characters in Chongzhen is a typical example of this method.

When Chongzhen learned that Li Zicheng had attacked the capital, he asked Qin Tian Jian to check his handwriting. He said a "friend" first, and the speller told him that it was called "rebellion has already begun." Say another word "you", and people tell him that "Daming Mountain is halfway" (meaning that the word "big" is missing a word and the word "Ming" is missing a word "day"). Ask the word "one" again, and the conclusion is that the word "Zun" of "Supreme" has a beginning and an end. The analysis of three homophones revealed three unusually consistent results, that is to say, there was no way out, so I had to hang myself and die. It's amazing. Of course, this is just a story made up by later literati.

In modern times, this separation of words has also developed into a political joke.

On the eve of national liberation, China Kuomintang politician Sun Ke. Son of Sun Yat-sen 1945 served as the vice chairman of the Kuomintang government, 1949 opposed the peace talks between Li Zongren and China. Sun Ke stepped forward to form a cabinet. People measure his words and say that his word "branch" is "no mouth to mouth, no door to fight", which makes people laugh.

The vowel of Chiang Kai-shek, saying his name is "Jiang Zhongzheng", was changed to "I want to stop", just like Chiang Kai-shek announced "retirement" on 1949 1.

Phonetics and glyphs are the material carriers of word meaning. Chinese characters with topological structure can radiate in all directions, giving people a variety of associations. The psychological activities of free association are quite complicated and vary from person to person. If we combine this association with coincidence, the so-called mystery of some Chinese characters will be greatly brought into play, and the analysis results will be surprising and amazing. If the fortune teller is a superstitious person, the result is self-evident.

Chinese characters have many advantages. It is super-dialect and super-era; It has its intelligence, stability and simplicity. The highest evaluation is Mr. li jinxi, who thinks that the contribution of Chinese characters is to maintain the semi-unified and semi-differentiated state of Chinese language. Without it (and, of course, the conditions for national reunification), Chinese may be divided into languages that cannot communicate with each other, like European languages. However, Chinese characters also have obvious shortcomings. It does not directly represent pronunciation, so it is difficult to write and recognize. As for the mysterious front of word measurement and word division mentioned above, not everyone can understand it.