The History and Origin of Chinese Characters (I)
The present article is the introductory section from a larger study entitled The History and Culture of Chinese Characters. The aim of this paper is not only to offer a better understanding of what is believed to be the origin of Chinese characters, but to further arouse the interest into this subject. I will first offer a short historical view of the Chinese characters by means of synthesizing the most relevant bibliographical sources in this respect. Furthermore, I will briefly describe three of the most important stories related to the origin of the Chinese characters.
Keywords: Chinese characters, history, origin, script, Fu Xi, Cang Jie
