Although many linguists, linguists, and other scholars continue to study "Chinese characters", it is plausible that Chinese characters are actually only a kind of "flat design product" of the Chinese nation. It is a "product," because it is a work that can be used and circulated. It even has a "word nature" of "merchandise"; moreover, it is indeed used by the largest number of people in the world. For a long time, there are standard product catalogues: various dictionaries. And it is still a product for human use only. Cat food is sold in the world, but there are no dictionaries and bookstores for dogs and cats. It is called "graphic design" because it is an artificial element that is used only for point-designed dot paintings. It is designed according to a certain concept of human society through the structural principles and means of graphic design. Moreover, it has an ever-increasing number of specialized design tools, ranging from knives to pens, from color to ink and a series of unique tools. People also created proprietary "carriers" and "product processors" for its invention. It is the greatest invention of mankind: paper and typography are in fact the cornerstones of all civilizations and the first methods of information processing. It is also the same as any graphic design and can be used as an intermediary and test standard for ideas and entities. Just as we use a design plan to check a building or a piece of artifacts, we can also use the product of “relying on it as a basis†to compare the words and deeds of “say it without sayingâ€. More importantly, Chinese characters are the same as all graphic designs for people to “seeâ€. They are flat graphics that can be used only after “cognitionâ€. The only special thing is that, in addition to its similar functions to other graphic designs, Chinese characters have their own characteristics of “ultimate products†and can be used as the ultimate product. They can be marked, recorded, displayed, sentimental, aesthetic, etc. Many direct cultural functions have even formed an artistic category in the second-order meaning of “calligraphyâ€.
Therefore, we can look at Chinese characters in such a way that Chinese characters are a flat design that records the concept of human beings made out of spot paintings, and are visual information symbols that are processed by writing or similar methods. We can also look at many things unique to the Chinese nation that are related to Chinese characters. For example, the dictionary is a Chinese character library, the sentences are Chinese characters, and the calligraphy is a style of writing arts with Chinese characters as the subject.
The design idea of ​​Chinese characters is both sophisticated and simple. It is actually constructed only by the two elements of "point painting". In the so-called "eight words of the same character," different stroke patterns can be seen as different positions and styles of point painting. As early as in the Song Dynasty, some scholars proposed that the point is also a kind of "paint composition" theory. However, the structure of Chinese characters is extremely rich, inexhaustible and available. The history of the development of Chinese characters for thousands of years has proved this. More importantly, the design philosophy of Chinese characters reveals the logical nature of graphic design and develops its logic approach to the most extensive and perfect connection with human activities. For example, the word "car" is one of the oldest characters. It is actually the oldest car-shaped pattern designed with a point-painting structure. The basic structure of the wheel-wheel, axle, and rut of a circular spoke is used. The simple and perfect concept record of the painter formed the word "car". However, it does not need to make any changes in imagery such as sex, numbers, and grids to eternally complete all the logical expressions of “carsâ€: it can not only remember everything such as carriages, oxcarts, unicycles, bicycles, and trains. , cars, trams, motorcycles, lunar rover, photon cars, sun cars, etc., the ideal “car†in ancient and modern times, and even in the future; it can also express something that has the dynamic characteristics of the car in a certain aspect, such as water trucks, windmills, , spinning wheels, lathes, etc.; it can even express everything that people and things that are directly or indirectly related to the “carâ€, such as cars, truckers, turning knives, cars, cars, vehicles, driving tables, Stations, Zhongfu, wheel battles, chasses, car books, etc. In addition, the "car" can also be used as a design element of Chinese characters, and many new characters are designed to comply with Chinese character design rules, such as: boom, rolling, rail, wheel, porch, dragonfly, sedan, turn, turn, soft, light, axis , more, 辇, è½³, è½³, and so on. This leads to the creation of various words, which are simply innumerable and difficult to enumerate. Not only do they have such contemporary names as "sedans", but they also have special terms such as "trajectory". They also have ubiquitous vocabulary such as "adjuvant", "transformation", "imperial", and "recklessness," and even "being vigorous". "The station can't live any longer" this kind of vulgarity. Perhaps it is not difficult for us to discover any future occasions that can be imagined in ancient and modern times, even in the future. As long as there is a place for Chinese people, there will be use of “designed products†that are implicated in “cars†everywhere.
In fact, every Chinese character is such a "product" that they have built a Chinese civilization and have prolonged and expanded Chinese culture. In fact, the first Chinese characters were directly called "literature". The first dictionary after the unification of Chinese characters was called "shuowen." In this dictionaries, the structural laws and rules of Chinese characters are also clearly defined. , and explicitly point out the principle of "painting as a text". The vocabulary of “civilization†and “culture†summarizes the special function of “nothing is unknown and unintelligible†in Chinese characters. In the course of five thousand years of development, Chinese characters have become the most complete "visual plane information record system." Some people who do not understand this and do not understand this are in violation of these principles. They must engage in the “Chinese Character Reform†that “takes the world’s common path of pinyin†and set up a committee for reform of the writing. They are essentially trying to cancel the visual plane structure of Chinese characters. With regard to information characteristics, they do not understand the unified and identical compositional rules of multiple writings of Chinese characters, to "reform" Chinese characters by reducing the strokes of Chinese characters, and even "standardize" Chinese characters by using typos and characters. As a result, there has been a simplicial body. Since traditional characters can contain simplified characters instead of simplified characters, they do not have the function of replacing traditional characters (at least until the simplified characters were issued, all Chinese dictionaries were kept in traditional characters). Therefore, this In fact, after a few strokes of each word, more than a few thousands of commonly used Chinese characters were created, resulting in confusion and complication of the Chinese character system. Look at the thicker and thicker dictionary. ), it is not difficult to understand the seriousness of this mistake. This has brought a lot of difficult work to the standardization of Chinese characters, which is not conducive to the two-way open reform and cultural exchange between time and space. Otherwise, with today’s open reform as the basic national policy, why should the “Word Reform Commission†that has flaunted the reform be renamed the “Writing Work Committee?†To simplify it as a precursor, the “Chinese Character Reform†for the purpose of cancellation is precisely that. The product of a bourgeois-democratic revolution and an administrative order where the national culture is ignorant. Wrong, change it. There is indeed a lot of "word work" waiting for the "Writing Work Committee" to work.
Many civilizations written in Chinese characters may have further development and glory for the creation of Chinese people. The quintessence of Chinese characters in graphic design may be worth learning, inheriting, and exploring for every “designerâ€.
I always feel sacred and proud for the design of Chinese characters. (Text/ozj)