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Chinese Characters – Traditional Chinese

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  https://www.istudy-china.com/  Traditional Chinese is one of the Chinese fonts used by the Chinese nation and has a history of more than 2000 years. From the beginning of the 1950s, Chinese mainland officials on the basis of traditional Chinese characters was a simplified form of Chinese writing new standard, simplified Chinese, and traditional Chinese characters before simplifying called traditional characters.   Basic introduction At present, Traditional Chinese, mainly in China Taiwan region, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Macao Special Administrative Region, and North America use other overseas Chinese communities section.   The Chinese nation is an ancient nation with a long history and cultural tradition, with a glorious page in her past, and her past glory (such as the textual research of history, music, clothing, architecture, and food) is mainly passed down by Chinese characters. , Traditional Chinese characters are closely linked with histor...

Chinese Characters – Oracle Bone Inscriptions

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  https://www.istudy-china.com/  Oracle bone inscriptions are an ancient Chinese script, also known as "Qiwen", "Oracle bone inscriptions", "Yinxu script" or "tortoise shell and beast bone inscriptions". It is the earliest mature Chinese character that we can see. It mainly refers to the characters engraved on tortoise shells or animal bones by the royal family of China in the late Shang Dynasty for divination records. It is one of the earliest known systematic Shang characters in China and East Asia. Kind of carrier.   It was first found by villagers in Xiaotun Village, Anyang, Henan. At that time, they did not know that this was an ancient relic. It was only used as a medicinal material "dragon bone" for curing all diseases. Many tortoise shells and animal bones engraved with oracle bones were ground into powder and wasted. Many valuable cultural relics were collected. Later, when Wang Yirong, an official and epigrapher in the late Qi...

Chinese Characters – Simplified Chinese

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  https://www.istudy-china.com/  Simplified Chinese is a standardized way of writing modern Chinese, as opposed to traditional Chinese (also known as Traditional Chinese ). Simplified Chinese is mainly composed of heritage characters, and after 1950 the Government of the People's Republic of China began in the mainland China region to implement the simplified characters composed. Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Chinese communities in Mainland China, Malaysia, Singapore, and some countries in Southeast Asia. In the past, simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese coexisted in various United Nations documents.   Since the government of the People's Republic of China replaced the Taiwan authorities and returned to the United Nations in 1971, simplified Chinese has become one of the six official languages of the United Nations.   Detailed explanation Simplified Chinese (English: Simplified Chinese, webpage language code: Zh-Hans ), traditionally uses GB2312, GBK, or...

Chinese Characters – Bronze Inscriptions

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  https://www.istudy-china.com/  The bronze inscription is a kind of calligraphy name in ancient China, referring to the inscriptions cast on bronzes of the Yin, Shang, and Zhou dynasties also called Zhong Dingwen. The Shang and Zhou Dynasties were the age of bronze ware. The ritual of bronze ware was represented by the tripod, and the musical instrument was represented by the bell. "Zhongding" was synonymous with bronze ware.   China has entered the Bronze Age in the Xia Dynasty, and copper smelting and copperware manufacturing technologies are very developed. Because the Zhou Dynasty also called copper-gold, the inscription on the bronze ware was called "Jinwen" or "Jijin writing"; and because this type of bronze ware had the largest number of characters on the bell, it used to be called "Zhongdingwen".   Bronze inscriptions were applied from the late Shang Dynasty to the Qin era of the Six Kingdoms, about 800 years ago. According to the record...

Chinese Language – Hakka Chinese

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  https://www.istudy-china.com/  Hakka (English: Hakka, Hakka vernacular characters: Hak-kâ-ngî, Hag5-ga1-ngi1), abbreviated as Hakka, is a tonal language in the Chinese family under the Sino-Tibetan family. Yes, One of the common languages of Han and Hakka people and a tool for identification, International language code: ISO 639-3 hak. It is one of the seven major Chinese dialects. Hakka is also called Hakka on informal occasions. According to different accents, it can be divided into Meizhou dialect, Huiyang dialect, Huizhou dialect, Heyuan dialect, Gannan dialect, Tingzhou dialect, etc. In some areas, it is also called Cantonese, Shuiyuanyin, Ya dialect, Xinmin dialect, Moge dialect, and Huaiyuan dialect.  In language academic research, the Meixian dialect is the representative,  Huiyang dialect is more influential in reality; Taiwan is represented by the Sixian dialect. Hakka is one of the official languages of Taiwan, China (the official language), and one...

Chinese Food – the culture of Cantonese morning tea

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  https://www.istudy-china.com/   the Culture of Cantonese morning tea Drinking tea in the morning is a habit for many people. But Guangzhou makes drinking morning tea a very local cultural tradition. The tea drinking culture in Guangdong is not only about drinking tea, but also including a variety of traditional Cantonese dim sum, which not only gives you enough to drink but also fills you with food. No wonder Cantonese people say that to drink morning tea is to sigh morning tea, sigh in Cantonese is meaning enjoy. Besides drinking tea and snacks, morning tea is also a way for people to socialize. Friends get together to chat, lovers date, or business partners will choose to talk with the morning tea, while eating. What is the  Cantonese morning tea Morning tea usually starts early and lasts for a long time. It starts from 5 or 6 o 'clock in the morning and is counted as morning tea before 12 o 'clock at noon. The contents of typical Cantonese morning tea include "o...

Chinese Food – Chinese famous snacks

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  https://www.istudy-china.com/  Chinese cuisine has a history of five thousand years. When it comes to snacks, there are countless types of snacks all over the country. In particular, the special snacks from various places are even more diverse and diverse. The cuisines of various regions have their own flavors. No matter where you are, there are always different foods for you to taste. China naturally has its own unique characteristics for food, and cuisines from all over the country are even more popular. Let's take a look at the most local cuisines from all over the country. Beijing Donkey Rolling As an ancient historical and cultural capital, Beijing is also the capital of our country, so the snacks handed down are naturally very rich. Every snack has some background and carries historical changes. If you want to experience the old Beijing on the tip of your tongue, Beijing roast duck, donkey roll, old Beijing fried noodles, Ai Wowo, sugar fire, pea yellow, kidney bean ro...

Chinese Characters – Cursive script

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  https://www.istudy-china.com/  Cursive script is broad and narrow. In a broad sense, regardless of age, all scribbled characters are counted as a cursive script. In a narrow sense, as a specific typeface,  was formed in the Han Dynasty and evolved on the basis of the official script for ease of writing.   It started around the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in order to distinguish it from the new cursive script of the time. Call the cursive script of Han Dynasty Zhang Cao. The new cursive script is relatively called Jintao, which is divided into big grass (also called crazy grass ) and small grass, which feels graceful in frenzy. As Li Zhimin said: "Let's be in the pool, be judged by reason, learn from things, get from the heart, understand from the image, and then begin to enter the cursive wonderland."   Since the cursive font is too simple, easily confused with each other, it is not like the official script replaces Zhuanwen to replace the official script as the...

Chinese Characters – Regular scripts

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  https://www.istudy-china.com/  The regular script, font name, also called regular script, block script, true script, and regular script. The official script gradually evolved, become more simplified, smooth vertical and horizontal. The book " Ci Hai " explains that it "has a square shape and straight strokes, which can be used as a model." This Chinese character font correct, it is the modern prevailing Chinese character handwriting block letter word.   The regular script is also an official name. "Xin Tang Book · Hundred Officials II" Book Zhongshu Provincial History Museum has 20 regular scriptwriters and 18 regular scriptwriters. As an official name, the regular script is also called the regular script hand. The things written by the palms are juxtaposed in the same organization, due to different divisions of labor. " Tong Dian · Official Twenty-two" remembers the regular script hand as the streamed official. In Song Dynasty, there was no su...