The Function Of Chinese Characters

Chinese characters are a system of Chinese writing symbols. The main function of Chinese characters is to record Chinese. But as the system of symbols at the same time, because of its social and historical category characteristics, Chinese characters have also embodies its own special functions in many other areas.Previous studies majored in Chinese cultural functions, and mainly discuss about what the cultural content of the Chinese characters embodies. There is no problems with this discussion. However, we found that, until today, through several thousand years of development, Chinese characters still needs a new perspective in many ways: For example, the idea of building modern subject of Chinese characters; prompted us to think about the issue of Chinese history. Chinese history is not only an integral part of culture, contains culture, what's more important, it retains the culture. The past few times, we merely talk about Chinese characters'information function. We still can not directly see the discussion about the information function of Chinese character in the present works. We concern that the Chinese characters maintains the two major reservations about information. One is professional information, including information about defining characters, prompting voice and semantic information. On the other side, generating characteristics of the Chinese characters also reflects the Chinese cultural functions, mainly manifested in Chinese calligraphy .With the development of history, the original characters which do not have art function like Oracle, Jinwen, Zhuanshu, Lishu, Kai, also show the characteristics of art function because of their compared difference.The whole text is divided into five parts.The first part is the introduction, mainly introduce the theory basis,studying subjects and researching methods, and this passage will come to the basic conclusion.The second part is to discuss the cultural function of Chinese characters. We do believe that Chinese characters have culture function. Like other languages in the world, Chinese characters are an important part of culture. At the same time, for Chinese special formation characteristics, Chinese characters contained the culture. Chinese characters are produced in different historical periods; as a result, it contains cultural contents of various historical periods. It shows cultures of the currency, Marriage, dress, transport, music, war and other aspects of cultural contents in Chinese history. In addition, Chinese characters are the preservation of cultural functions. When we examine the Chinese characters with reviewing attitude, it preserves and retains cultures in the last period. If we look at Chinese characters with a forward-look posture, it will also have to preserve our culture today. Here, we proposed a view of"historical Chinese characters"that we deem the retained value of "historical Chinese characters"is that they are culture characters. They preserve today's non-mainstream culture."Historical Chinese characters"is an important basis for us to research culture and history of culture. It is beneficial to our researches on characters, culture, folklore, and many other aspects of the study.In the third part, we put on discussion on the function of Chinese characters. We believe that the Chinese characters do have information function. Chinese characters or its members not only carry their own professional information, and also store the information of Chinese encyclopedia. Chinese professional information itself is Chinese characters or Chinese characters elements reflected in Chinese characters or Chinese characters'information. It mainly reflects three areas, which are the overall performance of the Chinese character generation, the voice component of information and semantic information. Those are from characters themselves that all the information facts about methods of defining Chinese character. The information entered on the horizon, it was only because of people's awareness of the role, if no one is in the cognitive, this information exists as well. For example, pictographic-defined method, generally speaking, directly portray the image of things. Of course, not only like this, they also sometimes manifest the concept related to the object. Hui Yi characters as well, We list the forms of"仁,休,忍,忘"as examples. like"","小篆'仁'from'人', follow the meaning of'二'.'仁'is the two people combined, regards two as one. By'二'are compatible with both honest and virtual, that is honest to others, then we will get close relationships. Both can be compatible with consistency, it means as themselves, intended for'亲'. "Pictographic Chinese characters from development from Hui Yi, shows its table-components. We found that, through their own transmission, the two methods of the characters construction, like, the style are different as things are similar. That is themselves are transmitting information. Chinese characters and its members, especially The Chinese component embodied in the word voice prompts or the role of semantics in the entire Chinese characters. The most typical performance is that the sound function of sound shapes of the characters and the indicate function of shape part, which is the performance of Chinese character information function. Chinese characters also store a large number of encyclopedias of information. Today, a lot of encyclopedia of knowledge we received are closely related to the contribution of Chinese characters.The fourth section is about the art function of Chinese characters. We believe that Chinese has art function. First of all, the formation of Chinese characters is a process with technology and thought process. It is created after a long historical process by working people. the formation of Chinese characters is a process with technology and thought process. Secondly, after Chinese stereotyping, in the use of Chinese characters, people used to record language, no longer just confined to the regular use of it, but began with the use of arts. Take cursive as an example, we discuss its aesthetic value. Cursive play the function of recording language, meanwhile, a greater extent, as a form of art when surviving. Thirdly, Chinese calligraphy performs the creators'ideas and feelings. Not only words reflect the quality of self-cultivation, but also the aspirations of writers, Writing reflects people's will, interest and pursuit. Therefore, Chinese is a special form of art. The formation of Chinese characters is a historical process. It is produced in the labor process of people. With the needs of labor, it is created as writing symbols the system on the basis of human wisdom. As the development of social history and Chinese characters, Chinese characters shows strong aesthetic functions, and as a special form, it reflects the performance of its artistic features in a different way.The conclusions and the added discussion are in Part V, It is mainly a general conclusion on the perspectives we have reached, and raises the issues not discussed in the passage.