
联合国中文日/The Legend of Chinese Characters/The “Sage of Character Creation” Cangjie
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The United Nations Chinese Language Day is a holiday initiated by the United Nations Department of Public Information (now the Department of Global Communications) in 2010. This initiative aims to celebrate the use of multiple languages and cultural diversity, and to promote equal use of the six official languages of the United Nations. That same year, the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations proposed to the United Nations that Chinese Language Day be designated on the traditional Chinese solar term "Grain Rain" each year, to commemorate the contribution of Cangjie, the "ancestor of Chinese characters," to the creation of writing.
