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Haoran Zhang
Cang Jie made the Chinese Characters, 2017
Digital, 14x18 inches
In the past, people knot rope memoir, a major event hit a big knot, a trivial trivial, connected to a series of knot .Then developed with a knife engraved with a symbol on the wood as a memoir.With the development of history, civilization Gradually, complicated things, a large number of famous, knot and carved wood method, far can not meet the needs, there is an urgent need to create text.When the Yellow Emperor was invented more during the ancient times, when not only invented sericulture, but also Invented the boat, the car, the bow 驽, the mirror and the cooking pan and 甑 and so on, under the influence of these inventions, Cang Jie also determined to create a kind of writing.
Legend Cangjie, eyesight Hitomi, very clever, one year, Cangjie to the South Patrol hunting, boarded a mountain, suddenly saw a big tortoise, turtle back above a lot of bluepattern. He looked and found that the pattern on the back of a turtle was actually meaningful.He thought the pattern can not only mean that if we set a rule, is it not everyone can use to convey the mind, record things ?
Cang Jie day and night thinking, everywhere to observe and see the distribution of the stars in the sky, the way the earth and the mountains and veins, traces of birds and worms fish, the shape of plants and equipment, tracing painted to create a variety of symbols, and set Each symbol represents the meaning of his own heart with the symbol of pieced together into paragraphs, to show people, by his explanation, it is also plain to understand.Changjie this symbol is called the word
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