Chinese characters were not created arbitrarily. Over 5000 years, generations of religious writers, court officials, scholars, artists and countless others have built, through their collective effort, a distinctive, extensive and systematic writing system. One fascinating fact about the Chinese writing system is that many characters retained in their design pieces of information about the era, the culture, the society, the ideologies in which they were created.
A Chinese character is a time capsule – a time capsule that can bring the reader and student back in time, back to the character’s moment of creation – back to the birth of a language, the birth of a nation.
It’s time travel time!