汉字文化及其社会传播功能

The Culture of Chinese Characters and Its Social Communicating Function

汉字历史悠久,从它的形成、发展可以透视中华民族的传播思想和深层的文化渊源。对传统“六书”进行现代诠释,从汉字的结构揭示先民的自我传播意识,从汉字的使用展现华夏民族的原始文化底蕴和哲学观念,是一个新的研究角度。汉字不仅凝聚着我们祖先对客观事物的认识,还映射着民族感情和人文观念;汉字不仅以其平面具象特征给人视觉的享受和体现审美价值,还以其和谐的韵律传播字义文化;汉字不仅具有语素特点的独立性和功能性,还具有极强构词能力的超想象性和灵活性。汉字实际上已成为研究中华民族文化的“语言化石”。

Chinese characters enjoy a history of about five thousand years. The formation and development of this writing system reflect the communicating conception of the Chinese nation and the deeper layer of cultural source. Chinese characters not only amass our ancestors'knowledge about objective things but also mirror our national feeling and humane viewpoint. Chinese characters acquire the independence and function of morphemes and it, too, has a powerful capacity of word formation and flexibility. Actually, Chinese characters have become ' language fossil' in studying the culture of Chinese nation.