Chinese characters are the longest history characters that are still used now. The earliest Chinese characters that we can see now are the inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells more than 3000 years ago. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics is one of the earliest characters of mankind, but it died out. Sumerian arrowhead characters have a history of 5000 years, but it also died out after A.D. 330. Other famous characters had also died out in the history of mankind, such as Maya, Brahmi, etc. However, Chinese characters not only don’t decline, but also develop constantly. Why is this? I summarize the following reasons. Let us experience the glamour of Chinese characters together.

1. Chinese characters pronunciation is the most beautiful.

Each Chinese characters has one sound, each sound is divided into four tones. So it is loud and clear to read; there are rhythms; just like beautiful music; especially Chinese poems. The Chinese poems stress antithesis, the level and oblique tones, so Chinese poems are very neat, and rhythm is very bright, it is very suitable for reading.

Chinese characters pronunciation is loud and clear, without voiceless consonant, so Chinese characters have obvious advantage in “man-machine dialogue”.

2. Chinese characters have the most graceful shape.

How graceful are Chinese characters? Chinese characters have already become a kind of art — Calligraphy art. Calligraphy art of Chinese characters is that any other characters can’t compare. The ancient Chinese calligraphy works are the priceless treasure.

3. Chinese characters are the easiest to discern.

Do a test first: See the following two kinds of array ways, which can know its amount more quickly?

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The answer is certainly the second. Because the human eyes visual field is always one surface, but not a line. The former is linear array, it is difficult to recognize; the latter arranges into a square, it is very easy to recognize. The former is equivalent to an alphabetic writing — Linear characters; the latter is equivalent to Chinese characters — Square characters. Therefore we can draw the conclusion: Chinese characters have higher efficiency of reading than the alphabetic writing.

4. The meaning of Chinese characters is the easiest to understand.

Please compare the following Chinese and English words group:

Though these six English words meaning all relate to ox, write and pronunciation are different. If you want to know them, must learn one by one, there isn’t any rule. However, perhaps you have found these Chinese characters words all include a Chinese character “牛”.”牛”meaning is “ox”. Therefore, you can know all words that include”牛”relate with “ox”. Therefore, if you know certain amounts of Chinese characters (2500 - 3000), can know countless Chinese characters.

Hope my analysis can stimulate your interest in learning Chinese. Furthermore, hope you can like Chinese characters; feel Chinese characters glamour with heart!

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