Ancient text shines the light of wisdom

The ancient text is an important part of Chinese civilization. The emergence and flow of ancient texts shining with the light of the wisdom of the Chinese nation, illuminating the development direction of Chinese civilization, and inheriting the genetic blood of Chinese civilization.

The ancient text usually refers to the previous text of the Qin Dynasty, and it can also include the copying ancient text and imitation ancient text after the Han Dynasty. The origin of ancient texts can be said from the formation of individual symbols and text systems. The late Shang Yinxu Oracle is regarded as a mature text system, representing the mature civilization of the Yin Shang period, which has become a consensus.

For the origin of individual characters, for self -source text, his source text often borrows or transform in batches, and there is no problem of separate origin. The birth of the self -source text symbol should not be judged by language standards, because whether the single symbol in the origin stage expresses the language unit that cannot be confirmed or false.

In fact, as long as a symbol or a batch of symbols have the following requirements, it can be called text: First, the symbol has an abstract expression function, which can represent a certain type of thing or a certain concept; The use of symbols is not limited by time and space, and can appear repeatedly in different occasions. Such text symbols should be caused by social development that need to break through the time and space records, and the increase in communication between different languages ​​and ethnic groups requires non -language communication.

In addition to social needs, the generation of text also depends on the improvement of human intelligence. People must have abstract thinking ability, the ability to distinguish different things, the ability to use the carrier and tools, and have the ability to transform the real object into symbols. The ability to use symbols to express the meaning can be created. Therefore, the emergence of words not only allows humans to find the best way to express self, but also an important symbol of society entering the stage of civilization. The origin of ancient Chinese text marks the maturity of Chinese civilization.

The structure of ancient words inherits the wisdom and culture of the ancestors. The structure of Chinese characters, whether, describes the native shape according to the objectives of objective things, or the new shape of the language sounds loaded by the existing shape, the ancestor's ancestor's awareness of the objective world and human society. Through the analysis of the structure of the ancient body shape, we can infer the process of the ancients' creation of Chinese characters and its ideological wisdom and the culture of the times. In the structure of ancient texts, the ancestors' awareness, symbolic consciousness, quantitative consciousness, awareness, time awareness, category consciousness, positive consciousness, association consciousness, etc., can be understood at all times, which deeply affects the thinking habits of the Chinese nation; ancient society Living conditions, objects and appliances, industry matters, etiquette systems, historical relics, science and technology, personnel activities, natural environment, etc., are also revealed from time to time. Learning and analysis of ancient texts can understand ancient history and inherit ancient culture.

The use of ancient texts inheritance literature and national spirit. After the ancient text forms a system, it can be used to record language and produce various literature. The ancient literatures that have been discovered include Yinxu Oracle, Zhou Yuan Oracle, Western Zhou Jinwen, Spring and Autumn Golden Text, Warring States Jane Jian, Pioneer Qin Xi Yin, Houma and Wenxian County League, Qin Han Jianjian, and inscriptions. Most of these documents are reproduced through archeological excavations, which are generally collectively referred to as "unearthed literature". Through the interpretation of unearthed literature, it can be more comprehensive and systematically reproduced in ancient history and culture. More importantly, the unearthed literature laid the basic system and rules of Chinese characters in Chinese and Chinese characters, laid various types of style and literary forms, and cultivated the content of the literature through classic inheritance, imperial examinations, dictionary specifications, etc. And social governance. The pre -Qin ancient text literature, via Qin, Han, Wei, Jin to Tang, Song, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, from the Han Dynasty "Seven Strategy" to the "Siku Quanshu" in the Qing Dynasty, forming a vast treasure house of ancient Chinese books, inheritance of all ages. Classic literature is the main carrier of Chinese civilization and national spirit, and ancient text materials are the root of classic literature.

The evolution of ancient texts is in line with social change and the process of civilization. The ancient Chinese characters are not unchanged, but they keep pace with the times. They have developed into the Han Dynasty Lishu and entered the current stage of this text. The process of evolving ancient text into presentations is usually called "lingering". Lishi first manifested as a simplification of the book body and structure. The structure of the ancient text focuses on the structure, which is more complicated, and the writing tools and carrons are relatively primitive, so writing is difficult. With the extensive frequency of social development and text, the original principle of characters gradually faded or transformed, and the shape gradually evolved from lines and solid blocks to strokes, which is more convenient to write. Simple writing greatly improves the efficiency of text use, also improves work efficiency, and promotes social development. In the evolution of Chinese characters, people also surpassing practical records, pursuing decorative beauty and artistic enjoyment, and producing art fonts and calligraphy art. Lishu is not limited to the font shape, and it also involves the adjustment of the norms and words of Chinese characters. The Qin Dynasty's "Books and Tongwen" not only classified the writing of Chinese characters, but also standardized the usage of words, reducing the generation of literature's ambiguity, and conducive to the unity of decree and cultural promotion, thereby enhancing the degree of social civilization.

It is precisely because of the cultural inheritance value of ancient texts that the eight departments such as the Ministry of Propaganda, the Ministry of Education, and the National Language Commission jointly launched the "Ancient Chinese Characters and the Inheritance of Chinese Civilization inheritance and Development Project". It is intendedEssenceHow to promote the results of ancient text research, and to give exerting the actual effectiveness of ancient text inheritance of ancient civilization is one of the tasks that ancient text projects need to complete.In various ways, let people come into contact with ancient text, understand ancient text, apply ancient text, and inherit ancient text.(Author: Li Yunfu, the director of the Chinese Character Civilization Center of Zhengzhou University)

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