Feel the modern road of Chinese character design in the hometown of Oracle

Xinhua News Agency, Zhengzhou, September 4, and the square -shaped model made of hard metals was arranged in a 60 cm long and 25 cm wide word plate like relief. It is not easy to find the Chinese characters you need from more than 2,500 characters in the word plate. This double -pigeon brand Chinese typograph produced in the 1980s has attracted many tourists to stop.

This is the exhibits shot at the Chinese Welfare Museum on August 25. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Haoran

Recently, the "Modern Modern Art Exhibition of Chinese Characters" ushered in the first exhibition at the Chinese Welfare Museum in Anyang, Henan.

The theme of the exhibition is "Modern Road to Chinese Characters", from the germination of the fonts of modern printing fonts, the independent development of the font design, the national -led font design, Chinese characters began to enter the information age, the Chinese modern fonts flourish, and the text display of the cultural community. The road of Chinese character design is combed at a angle.

"As the only mainstream language in the world that does not use letters in the world, it wants to express thousands of Chinese characters through a simple and easy -to -use device. In the last century, it was a complicated problem for engineers. This Chinese typograph is now awkward and inconvenient to use, but it condenses the wisdom of countless predecessors. "Before the Chinese typography of the double pigeon brand, the curator Liu Zhao said.

On August 25, tourists used mobile phones in the Chinese text museum to shoot. Xinhua News Agency reporter Wu Gang

After the invention of the world's first mechanical typewriter, no matter how many evolution has experienced, it is only applicable to the Western language world based on letters. Faced with the Chinese characters with thousands of common characters, this type of typography based on dozens of letters is powerless. The invention of Chinese typos broke this impossible.

Liu Zhao said that in the information age, the hugs of Chinese characters and computers faced huge challenges. To this end, scientific researchers at home and abroad have concentrated on studying Chinese character information processing technology and broke through a problem.

In the Internet era, people knocking on keyboards and clicking the screen to process Chinese information have long been accustomed to it, but more than 40 years ago, this was still difficult to imagine. Duan Yanqin, the deputy museum of the Chinese Text Museum, said that the Chinese characters have experienced many difficult explorations in the computer era.

"Until 1979, the Chinese characters developed by Professor Wang Xuan, a professor of Peking University, came out, and successfully exported Chinese characters from the computer. This technology laid the foundation for the computerization of the entire process of news and publishing. The revolution has created conditions for the spread and development of the Chinese national culture in the information age. "Duan Yanqin introduced that the ancient Chinese characters finally" farewell to lead and fire, ushered in light and electricity ", and in the informatization era, you are rejuvenating youthful vitality.

On August 24, tourists watched the exhibition in the Chinese Word Museum. Xinhua News Agency reporter Wu Gang

Anyang is the hometown of Oracle. The Chinese text museum here is the first national museum in China with the theme of text. The first exhibition of Chinese character design exhibitions in Anyang is also the source of inspiration to show the innovation and expression of Chinese characters.

"Post -00" college student Chang Mengchao said: "The exhibition gives me an intuitive understanding of the modern road of Chinese character design, and I also feel the beauty, love, and beauty from more than 600 Chinese characters design visual works. In the middle, feel the creativity and wisdom of the Chinese. "

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