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Introduction Symbols of Sentiment Graceful Olympic Symbols
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• According to legend, Chinese characters were invented by Cangjie (仓颉), a bureaucrat under the legendary Yellow Emperor.
✓ Ezra Pound (1885-1972), for example, was well known for his admiration of Chinese characters. When he saw the character 旦 in the dictionary, he was reminded of the morning sun.
• Some learners may experience the gratification of discovering historical and cultural elements in the process.
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• Some pictographic (象形文字的) symbols of Chinese characters express people’s keen observation and experience of the world.
• Some European poets have found Chinese characters inspiring to their imagination.
Character Meaning of the parts
旦
日：the sun
一：the horizon
東
looks like the sun rising
from a forest.
甲骨文 An oracle bone unearthed in
Anyang, Henan Province
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Unification
• Seal script, which had evolved slowly in the state of Qin during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, became standardized and adopted as the formal script for all of China in the Qin Dynasty.
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Simplification
• Although most often associated with the People's Republic of China, character simplification predates the 1949 communist victory.
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Unit 6 Chinese Characters: Poetic
Symbols
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Lead-in Text study Exercises
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Additional Info • The earliest surviving examples of writing in China
are inscriptions on so-called “oracle bones”, tortoiseshells and ox scapulae (肩胛骨) used for divination (占卜), dating from around 1200 BC in the late Shang dynasty.
Note: Ezra Pound: 埃兹拉·庞德。美国诗人、翻译家、评论家、意象派诗歌代
表人物，曾帮助T．S．Eliot，Joyce和Hemingway 手发表
早期作品，对英美现代文学发展作出重要贡献。
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• Examples: 愛爱 鄉乡 義义 導导 親亲
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• The number of Chinese language learners across the world has been on the rise in recent years.
• Pound’s poetic allusions (影射) are not without basis. A number of characters containing a as an element all relate to the rising or setting of the sun. For example: