THE AMAZING CHINESE CHARACTERS

　　THE AMAZING CHINESE CHARACTERS 有趣的汉字

　　Comparing to English words, the Chinese characters is much more different. Actually there two kinds of characters---the antiquity characters and the simplified ones.

　　The simplified comes from the antiquity and most antiquity characters come from drawings. so when you observe these characters, you will find they are not only characters, but also beautiful drawings, just like an perfect artwork .I will give you some examples as follows:

　　1, PRESON：人

　　In antiquity Chinese characters ,it is written like this :

　　2, SUN: 日

　　3, FIRE: 火

　　4, DRAGON: 龙

　　5, MOUNTAIN: 山

　　6, FISH: 鱼

　　7, WATER: 水

　　8, BARBECUE: 炙

　　9, RAIN雨

　　10,HORSE 马

　　11, BIRD: 鸟

　　12, FLOWER: 花

　　13, TREE: 木

　　14, TUETLE: 龟

　　15, DOG: 犬

　　16,TIGER

　　These are just a few examples of Chinese characters, actually there are almost 1400 characters, thought them you can see the old Chinese people are very wisdom. If you are interested in Chinese culture and want to know more, you can visit our website ，you will find it is a little window of looking into china.

　　2010-3-29