Learn one Chinese Character a day - "人"

As usual, let us see the evolution history of Chinese character - "人", (image get from http://www.vividict.com/)

Learn one Chinese Character a day - "人"

 In Oracle,  is to mimic the image of a species who is standing on its legs with vertical arms, which is very close to us the human-being. once it evolved to Seal , as China civilization has already evolved to agriculture at that time,  is more close to a farmer who works hard in the field. while time passes, Chinese simplified the way of writing for  to Scribe .  is already very close to what we use now - "人"

From the evolution history of   "人", we can know how Chinese ancestors differentiate human-being from other species of the world. Human-being is the only species who stand on its legs with hands free for work, and as agriculture become more and more important, silhouette of a farmer is used to present all human-beings. 

 "人" means human-being. 

a farmer works in the field

As you can see that Chinese character system is Hieroglyphs, that is the reason why only Chinese characters can have Calligraphy art for Chinese writings are basically drawings.

enjoy a Calligraphy with  "人" inside:

Learn one Chinese Character a day - "人"

Next day we will look at another Chinese character - "众". You can give it a guess?