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1、晨读晚诵导语:汉字是中华民族五千年文明中最灿烂的瑰宝。ThedevelopmentofChinesecharactersTheChineselanguagediffersfromWesternlanguagesbecauseinsteadofanalphabet,itusescharacterswhichmeanideas,objects1ordeeds.Chinesewordsaremadebyputtingtogetherdifferentcharacters.Inmanycases,asingle2
2、charactercanalsomakeupaword.ThehistoryoftheChineselanguagecanbeknownbylookingathowthesecharactersdeveloped.Chinesewritingbeganthousandsofyearsago.Accordingtoanancientstory,amannamedCangJieinventedChinesewriting.Onewinterdaywhilehewashunting,hesawthetracks
3、3ofanimalsinthesnowandobservedthateachonewasdifferent.Thenhehadtheideathathecouldusedifferentshapes4toshowdifferentobjects.ThefirstChinesecharactersweredrawingsofphysicalobjects.Somecharactershavebeensimplified5andothershavebeenmademoredifficultovertime.H
4、owever,asawhole,thecharactershavedevelopedfromdrawingsintostandardforms.Thecharacterforamountainwasatfirstthreemountaintopstogether.Thisbecameonemountaintopandthreelines,andovertimeturnedintothecharacterusednowadays.Notallcharactersweredevelopedfromdrawin
5、gsofobjects.Sometimestoexpressideas,somecharactersweremadebyputtingtwoormorecharacterstogether.Forexample,“rest”wasmadeupofthecharactersforamanandatree.Othercharactersweredevelopedfordirectionsandnumbers.Itiseasytoknowtheirmeaningsbylookingatthem,forexamp
6、le,thecharactersfor“up”and“down”,whichareopposites6ofeachother.Thoughthesekindsofcharactersshowmeanings,oneoftheirdisadvantagesisthattheydonotshowhowtheyshouldbepronounced.Soamethodwasdevelopedtohaveonepartofacharactershowthemeaningandtheothershowthepronu
7、nciation.ManyChinesecharactersusedtodayweremadethisway.Inthe1950stheChinesegovernmentintroducedsimplifiedChinesecharactersandnowtheyhavewideuseinChina’smainland.译文:汉字的发展汉语与西方语言不同,因为汉语它不使用字母,而是用汉字表示思想、物体和行为。汉语的词语是通过把不同的汉字放在一起而组成的。在许多情况下,一个字也能构成一个词。通过研究这些汉字
8、是如何发展的就可以了解汉语的历史了。汉字的书写起源于数千年前。根据一个古老的传说,一位名叫仓颉的人发明了汉字。他在某个冬日打猎时,观察到各种动物留在雪中的足迹,发现足迹的形状各不相同。于是他想到可以用不同的形状来代表不同物体。最初的汉字只是表现有形物体的图画。随着时间的推移,一些汉字被简化了,而另一些则变得更加复杂。不过总的来说,汉字从图画发展成了标准形式。表示“山”的汉字最初是三座山峰并列,继而变成了一座山峰和三条线,随着时
