英语翻译
ChineseCulture中国文化
TheoriginofChinesewritingcanbetracedbacktoancientChinaalthoughwearenotcertainofthedateofitsinvention.Accordingtoreliablereferencebooks,Chinesewritinghasatleastahistoryoffourthousandyears.Itisgenerallybelievedthatpeoplemaderecordsbytyingaknotinarope.ThiswayofrecordingwasreplacedbytheinventionoflettersbyCheongTchi.Yet,wecannotassumethattherewerenowrittenwordsbeforeCheongTchi.Cheongonlycombinedtheinventedwordsofhispredecessorswithslightchanges.Atthesametime,therewasstillanotherinventorcalledChuShung.However,thefactthatChinesewrittenwordsoriginatedinpaintingisbeyonddoubt.Thatiswhymodernpeopleconsiderwritingandpaintingtohavethesameorigin.Theinventionofwordsrepresentstheinsufficiencyofspokenlanguage.Asaninstrument,theydescribeandkeepvariouseventsandhavemeanings.Wordsprecedewritingandarethemotherofwriting.Withthepassageoftime,theevolutionofhumanculture,andtheneedsofdailylife,thewritingstyleproceededfromeasytocomplex.
