How about Chinese characters
Basic fact about Chinese characters
The America poet Ezra Pound once said, “The easiest language in the world for writing poetry is Chinese.” And in the words of E.E.Cummings, another American poet, “Chinese poets are painters.”
Here we try to illustrate to you some of the forms and structures of Chinese characters.
Each Chinese character has a form of its own, a story of its own. Each character is a unity of form, sound and meaning. Hard as it is, but maybe a little story for each of them, should make it eazier for you to understand. Note, not every Chinese know the stories, but we were taught to remmember them from kindergarten age.
Now guess the meaning of the following characters:
First time, it could be a littel hard. The first one stands for Sun (day), and the second one stands for Moon or lunar (Month). But when put them together, like:
They stand for Day and Month, that is the time past by…
Now, something eazier maybe:
Okay, the first one is the Mountain, and the second one is the river.
Well, maybe we can put them together, like:
Mountain, River, Sun and Moon…Space and Time, that is Universe…
