Learn Chinese character by understanding how it was created

After starting this series of Chinese character learning process following their evolution history, it is benefiting not only readers but also myself.

I am surely not a Chinese linguist, it takes me lots of effort to search and understand why a Chinese character is created and the philosophy behind that. However these learning process is quite rewarding, I can also have the chance to understand better the origin of Chinese culture and civilization. 

We will be very impressed how creative and innovative our Chinese ancestors were! Chinese are the only race on earth who are still following the way of writing of their ancestors, which are using different pictographic characters together with method of associative imagination and philosophy.

Other side benefit is that my kids will study and learn in an English environment, this series can help them to better understand our Chinese language and culture, then further appreciate and be proud of it. Hopefully they will not become so-called banana but pure mango. 

And by going through the evolution history, we can now have the chance to understand and read ancient Chinese documents wiring even in Oracle script, Bronze script and etc. We will see in our following posts that by understanding how Chinese characters were created, we can have better interpretation of ancient writings.

Most of Chinese will not have chance to know Oracle script and Bronze script, from this series, we will know more than average Chinese in Chinese characters.

Chinese Characters

By the way, wish everybody a prosperous new year ahead in 2012.