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Show OL PAPERMAKIN I AND JAPA CHIN o Y of the written and printed characters of th Cl-unese reveals many interesting facts relative to th use lopmen of particular a terialsemployed in ancient Chinese civilizatio characters are not composed of letters properly fitte tcgethzno form words and sounds , toa gr extent, actual picturesof the things they represent. Lik the! Chines pe pleandflwirspoken]anguzge th eorigi and anciem historyof their writing are enveloped i y. The Chinese bavealegend alzout the origi oftheirscript that datesBk tothe twenty-ninth centuryB.C, Theyrelat fantastic emblems and symbolsin various dimensionsand forms. When Fu Hi(8, C),thefirvml'chmaxp imeval emperors, beheld the decorate dragonhe madecopiesof thesecurioussymbols and thesedrawings forme ter TsangKie, under the (}nrdpnmeva] emperor, Hwang Ti (2697B.C.) ciminued along the path of invention and fashioned the first primm‘v the Chinese scnpt dates from the rmddle o"he third millennijum E C.,an funh ‘more had its entire conceptio in the confine of Ch The script of«he Chmese isa comyhcated mvznhon and the c}mracter dee ation. Overapenodof somany centuries 1hson1vnatura.hhat thewritin Chznged technically. We, for example, do not make our letters in precisel Digitalimag © 2004 Marrioft Libary, University of tah. Alrights reserved |