Re:The Chinese character system is a brake on development
by ksec on Friday January 22, 2016 @06:23AM
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I am afraid I am not qualify to say whether the Chinese Character is, or not a brake on development of its language.
But I do have a story to share, just one story, nothing more.
When I was a kid studying in UK, during an Art Session we had to cut a black card and overlay on top of white paper to create some form of Art. I have absolutely no idea what to do! Compared to some of my classmate who start creating and cutting some beautiful images, I was starring in the air and didn't know what to do. I try cut a few things but they all look so dull, ugly and meaningless in my mind.
After 30 mins of not going anywhere, my teacher came around and pat on my back, he said, "Beauty is in the eye of beholder. It doesn't really have to mean anything, it could just be some random cutting, some shape or even some words like your name. It doesn't matter. Try your best"
At that moment i really needed some encouragement, So i thought, since everyone were doing something good and fancy, why dont I cut out a Chinese word? He did said some words. Since i am the only Chinese in the class, surely no one would be doing it and no one would understand it anyway.
So in the remaining 15 min or so I drafted out the Chinese letter "愛", ( meaning love ), it is complex enough and easy to explain.
In the end when everyone were presenting their work to our teacher, I still remember the look on his face when he saw mine, he was, awkwardly staring at it for 30 seconds, without making a single noise. The silence was quite intense I was thinking I make some crap...
"What is this?" He asked.
"A Chinese Letter"
"What does it mean?"
"Love"
"This is beautiful! This is actually a letter?"
"Yes"
I thought all these were just some encouragement so i dont look too bad. When we left the classroom, I turn around and my teacher was still standing there staring at my form "art".
Later on that Week my teacher asked me privately to make him a few more of these Chinese Characters, I wrote out a few so he could choose, he was truly fascinated at the act form of these Characters.
I couldn't grasp the idea then. Because I never saw them as act, merely as what the article suggest as a painful tool to write. It was only as i grow older and older, did i start to appreciate this beautiful form of Chinese glyph.
I hope you all too, would some day appreciate the beauty of these characters.
But I do have a story to share, just one story, nothing more.
When I was a kid studying in UK, during an Art Session we had to cut a black card and overlay on top of white paper to create some form of Art. I have absolutely no idea what to do! Compared to some of my classmate who start creating and cutting some beautiful images, I was starring in the air and didn't know what to do. I try cut a few things but they all look so dull, ugly and meaningless in my mind.
After 30 mins of not going anywhere, my teacher came around and pat on my back, he said, "Beauty is in the eye of beholder. It doesn't really have to mean anything, it could just be some random cutting, some shape or even some words like your name. It doesn't matter. Try your best"
At that moment i really needed some encouragement, So i thought, since everyone were doing something good and fancy, why dont I cut out a Chinese word? He did said some words. Since i am the only Chinese in the class, surely no one would be doing it and no one would understand it anyway.
So in the remaining 15 min or so I drafted out the Chinese letter "愛", ( meaning love ), it is complex enough and easy to explain.
In the end when everyone were presenting their work to our teacher, I still remember the look on his face when he saw mine, he was, awkwardly staring at it for 30 seconds, without making a single noise. The silence was quite intense I was thinking I make some crap...
"What is this?" He asked. "A Chinese Letter" "What does it mean?" "Love" "This is beautiful! This is actually a letter?" "Yes"
I thought all these were just some encouragement so i dont look too bad. When we left the classroom, I turn around and my teacher was still standing there staring at my form "art". Later on that Week my teacher asked me privately to make him a few more of these Chinese Characters, I wrote out a few so he could choose, he was truly fascinated at the act form of these Characters.
I couldn't grasp the idea then. Because I never saw them as act, merely as what the article suggest as a painful tool to write. It was only as i grow older and older, did i start to appreciate this beautiful form of Chinese glyph.
I hope you all too, would some day appreciate the beauty of these characters.