Cangjie coined characters | the creator of Chinese characters| Chinese characters| Chinese mythology

more than four thousand years ago Huangdi became the leader of the Chinese tribe Cangjie was an official under the Yellow Emperor Responsible for managing the number of livestock and grain in the barn Cangjie is smart and capable He used methods such as knotting ropes and adding or subtracting shells to to remember the number of livestock and grain But as Huangdi handed over more and more things to Cangjie, Previous methods are no longer sufficient This makes Cangjie very worried. one day Cangjie is at a three-way intersection Saw three hunters quarreling The first hunter is going north to chase the antelope The second hunter is going west to chase deer The third hunter is going east to hunt tigers Cangjie was very surprised How do you know what animals are there? The hunters pointed at the animal footprints on different forks in the road. Cangjie suddenly realized another day Cangjie saw the paw prints left by the bird on the ground Smaller than the footprints of wild beasts The lines are also very thin He picked up a branch Drawing on the ground thinking If symbols are used to represent things Can I remember more things? then Cangjie began to observe the characteristics of each thing then record it The way he looks at the sun drew a circle Draw another dot in the middle represents the sun The way he looked at the moon Draw the shape of a crescent moon Draw a dot in the middle represents the moon He drew waves according to the shape of flowing water represents water Draw the flames like a campfire represents fire Draw squares to look like farmland Representative field He observes the cow Use big horns to represent cows He observes the sheep Use curved horns to represent sheep He called these symbols "words" He showed these "words" to everyone Everyone can understand what these "words" mean He told everyone this method And collected more "words" created by everyone gradually He painted everything into different symbols Determine the meaning of each symbol formed the first Chinese characters With the help of Chinese characters Cangjie managed everything in an orderly manner Huangdi was very happy when he found out Then he ordered him to teach everyone how to use Chinese characters people on stones Record things in Chinese characters on the back of a turtle Human civilization gradually emerged