On the Beauty of Chinese Composition

The Last Lesson is a short story by French writer Dodd, and all the students are familiar with it. I think everyone will be deeply impressed by the words of Mr. Hamel, a French teacher: French is the most beautiful language in the world. In fact, our descendants of the dragon should proudly say: Chinese is the most beautiful language in the world. The beauty of Chinese is all-round, and it is difficult to describe it in detail in a short paragraph. Here, I just want to talk about the beauty of Chinese characters that best represent the characteristics of Chinese.

As a symbol for recording and preserving Chinese, Chinese characters are the most widely used characters in the world and one of the oldest characters in the world. Its great influence, deep habits and numerous documents are unmatched by any kind of figures. This situation is inseparable from the beauty of music, form and meaning of Chinese characters themselves.

Musical beauty of Chinese characters. Although Chinese characters are ideographic characters, their pronunciation changes are the richest among all the characters in the world. The phonology that students are learning, such as English, can only be divided into rising tone and falling tone, while the pronunciation of Chinese characters can be divided into four types: flat tone, rising tone, falling tone. Coupled with the change of light tone in a specific context, the pronunciation of Chinese characters presents a unique charm of high and low, harmonious and pleasant, sonorous and catchy. It is not only convenient to express the lofty aspirations of "never coming back", but also suitable to pour out the graceful feelings of "Yang Liuan staying in the moon". According to the tone characteristics and rhythm changes of Chinese characters, the unique musical beauty of Chinese, such as flat correspondence and harmonious phonology, is impossible in other languages. The resulting poem, in the treasure house of China literature, has become a unique landscape with its rhythmic beauty of songs and sighs.

Physical beauty of Chinese characters. The physical beauty of Chinese characters can be examined from many aspects. First of all, from the perspective of physical evolution, Chinese characters have developed from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, where there were obvious traces of pictures and characters at first, to simplified characters we use today. During this period, they experienced the evolution of Oracle Bone Inscriptions-bronze inscription-seal script-official script-regular script-cursive script-running script-simplified Chinese characters. This change and the beauty of Chinese characters in various stages of evolution are incomparable to other languages in the world. Secondly, from the structure of Chinese characters, Chinese characters are constructed by six methods: pictographic, ideographic, comprehensible, pictophonetic, transliteration and borrowing. However, the structure of all phonetic words is only the simple addition and spelling of letters, and of course it is impossible to show thousands of changes in shape and beauty like Chinese characters. It is precisely because of the advantages of Chinese characters in form that China calligraphy has become not only a tool for exchanging ideas, but also the only art in the world, attracting the sincere love and unremitting exploration of calligraphy lovers from many countries and nationalities in the world.

The meaning of Chinese characters is beautiful. The beauty of Chinese characters is mainly reflected in the polysemy, homophony and vividness of Chinese words. Any language has polysemy, but the degree of polysemy of Chinese vocabulary is the most typical. Using this feature, Chinese can not only make puns, but also express ideas tactfully, making the text humorous. Many homophones are also unique to Chinese. Although it brings some difficulties to learning Chinese, it can produce positive rhetorical effects through clever use, especially when it is used to expose and satirize. Using the figurative features of Chinese word meaning can also attract people's association and enhance language appeal.

In a word, the beauty of Chinese is unparalleled, and we in China should learn, inherit and improve.