Interesting Chinese character story

The interesting Chinese character story is "You can do without money". The story goes like this:

Once upon a time, there was a very stingy rich man. Once, he hired a teacher for his son. Speaking of treatment, Mr. Wang knows that he is always mean to people. I moved my heart and made a written evidence with him, which read: no rice noodles, no chickens and ducks, no fish, no money.

The rich man was very happy to see it. He thinks that Mr. Wang doesn't pay attention to eating and doesn't have to pay tuition. He felt that he was taking advantage. By the end of the year, Mr. Wang will settle accounts with the rich man.

Where the rich man is willing to give, he will go to the county government for a lawsuit. The county magistrate asked the rich man to read the written evidence again; The rich man read it according to the written evidence, but the gentleman read it according to the pause of punctuation, so he read it out: no rice, no noodles; Without chickens, ducks can do it; Without fish, meat is ok; Without money, money will do. Hearing this, the rich man had to give his husband both tuition and meals.

The history of Chinese characters

Traditional stages are divided into four stages according to the changes of Chinese font, that is, according to the standards of big seal script, small seal script, official script and regular script. This achievement puts forward that font change is not an essential change in the development of Chinese characters, and it cannot explain the historical development law of Chinese characters, but should be explained by the change of Chinese character construction methods.

On the basis of this understanding, this achievement further puts forward the three-stage theory of Chinese character development. That is, the first stage is the drawing stage. People before Shang Dynasty should belong to this stage. The second stage is the phonetic stage with phonetic notation as the main body and hieroglyphics as the basis.

The characters from Oracle Bone Inscriptions to Qin Dynasty all belong to this stage. The third stage is the writing stage of pictophonetic characters with pictophonetic characters as the main body, and there are still some pictophonetic characters and pictophonetic characters, which belong to this stage from Qin and Han dynasties to modern Chinese characters.