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Introduction to Cangjie

Cangjie: The sage who created the first character and created the foundation of civilization

Introduction to Cangjie

Cangjie, whose original surname was Hou Gang, and whose name was Jie, was commonly known as Cangjie Master, also known as Shi Huangshi, also known as Cangwang and Cangsheng.

“Shuowen Jiezi”, “World Edition” and “Huainanzi” all record that Cangjie was a Zuo historian who created characters during the Yellow Emperor period. He was inspired by the footprints of birds and beasts, collected, organized and used them in the creation of Chinese characters. He played an important role in the process of making Chinese characters, and was honored as the “Saint of Chinese Characters”.

According to the records of “Hetu Jade Edition” and “Zhan Tong Ji”, Cangjie once established himself as emperor, and he was the leader of a tribe in ancient times. During Cangjie’s reign, he once worshipped and received Luoshu in the water of Luorui.

Cangjie is also the god of Chinese characters in Taoism. According to historical records, Cangjie had two pupils and four eyes. He was born virtuous. He observed the movement trends of the stars and the footprints of birds and beasts. For “Wenzu Cangjie”.

Cangjie’s life

According to historical documents, some documents record that Cangjie was the left historian of the Yellow Emperor and a sage who made characters; other documents record that Cangjie was the leader of the tribe, who once established himself as the Emperor Baishouluoshu.

Character Maker

Cangjie, known in ancient books as “the four eyes of the dragon face, are born with wisdom”. According to legend, he was the Zuo historian of the Yellow Emperor in the late period of China’s primitive society, and Cangjie was the Zuo historian. Ju chant is right history.

According to historical records: after the rise of Emperor Xuanyuan, Cang Jie and Ju Chan, the historians of the Yellow Emperor, were inspired by the footprints of birds and beasts. and use.

Although the knots vary in size and shape, they are difficult to identify due to their age. Hou Cangjie looked up at the trend of Kuixing’s ring, and looked down at the texture of the turtle’s back, the claw marks of birds and beasts, the shape of mountains and rivers, and the fingerprints of his palms.

The image Cangjie created in this way is called writing. The characters created by Cangjie have six general meanings. One is the words that refer to things, such as “up and down”, and the other is the words that refer to images, such as “sun, moon”. The third refers to the phonetic characters, such as “Jiang, He”, and the fourth refers to the comprehensible characters, such as “Wu, Xin”. The fifth refers to the transfer of annotations, such as “old, test”. Six refers to borrowed words, such as “order, long”.

Refers to the words of things, above is above, below is below. Refers to the pictographic characters, the sun is full and the moon is waning, imitating its shape. Phosphonic text, with the class as the shape, with the sound. Knowing the words, stop the dagger into the military, and the words of the people into the letter. The text of the annotation is also tested by Laoshou. The words borrowed under the guise are the same in several words, although the sounds are different, but the text is the same. Therefore, from the Yellow Emperor to the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the text has been used without any changes.

On the day when Cangjie coined the word, the whole country rejoiced, moved the gods, and rained the millet down, making the ghosts cry in the night with fright.

Tribal Leader

“Hetu Jade Edition” records that Cangjie was a tribal leader, with Yangwu as the capital, and he established himself as the emperor, named Cangdi. The Jiachen year (4637 BC) is the first year of Emperor Cang.

When Cangjie was in power, he patrolled his territory to the south. Cangji climbed the mountain of Yangxu, then went down the Luoshui, and found the tortoise with a book at the place of Yuanhu (one of Xuanhu) Luo Rui. Bye by Luoshu. Luo Rui is in the territory of Luoning County, Luoyang City, and there is still a Cangjie-made writing platform in the northwest of Xinghua Township, Luoning County, which was built by later generations to commemorate Emperor Cangjie.

In the ancient times thousands of years ago, the appearance of Hetu and Luoshu heralded the change of celestial phenomena and the birth of a new emperor in the world. Because many ancestors of civilizations in history have a story with it, Cangjie is also one of them.

Cangjie reigned for forty-two years and died in the forty-two years of Cangjie (Yiyou, 4596 BC) at the age of seventy-one. After his death, his body was buried in Lixiang, and he was honored as Emperor Cang.

Major Achievements

Judging from the records of ancient books, Cangjie’s contributions are mainly in the following aspects:

1. Improve the writing. The so-called “Cang (Cang) Jie’s writing” does not mean that Cang Jie completely invented and created writing alone, but that Cang Jie extensively collected and carefully sorted out the existing pictures and characters in the folk, so as to make Create a set of standardized pictographs.

2. Shouluo, Hetu, and Luoshu record in detail the rise and fall of ancient emperors, as well as the way of ruling the people and governing the country. Only emperors appointed by heaven can get it. After Cangjie ascended the throne as the emperor, he patrolled his territory to the south, climbed Yangxu Mountain, followed the Luohe eastward to Luorui, where the Luoshui and the Yellow River meet, and found that the tortoise was carrying With a mysterious pattern, it was dedicated to Cangjie. Bagua is the evolution of Luoshu, and later became the source of “Book of Changes”.