[Lecture] The Inheritance and Dissemination of Chinese Characters Civilization

Speaker: Lei Hanqing (Sichuan University)

Date: June 16, 2023 (Friday)

Time: 9:30-11:30 am

Venue: Lecture Hall, 1st Floor, West Library

Abstract: The civilization of the Chinese characters has a long history with the Chinese civilization. Its evolutionary history can be divided into two periods: the ancient writing stage and the modern writing stage. As the most basic cell of Chinese culture, the Chinese characters spread to the world along with the splendid Chinese culture, and gradually formed the cultural circle of the Chinese characters.

In the long history, the Chinese characters spread southward from the Yellow River to the Yangtze River and to the areas where the Zhuang people in Guangxi and the Jing people in Vietnam are now located, resulting in the Zhuang characters and Chu Nom. From about the Han Dynasty, the Chinese characters spread from the Yellow River to the Liao and Yalu rivers into Korea and Japan, giving rise to proverbs and pseudonyms. They also spread northward to what is now Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Ningxia and Gansu, producing the Khitan, Jurchen and Western Xia characters. The spread of the Chinese characters civilization plays a vital role in inheriting and carrying forward traditional culture, maintaining national unity and promoting mutual learning between Chinese and foreign civilizations.

Introduction to the speaker: Lei Hanqing, PhD in Chinese History from Fudan University. He is currently a professor of the College of Literature and Journalism at Sichuan University, and a PhD supervisor in the fields of Chinese Philology, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. He is also vice chairman of the China Research Society On Semantics and Etymology and chairman of the Sichuan Language Society.

Source: NYNU Notice (Chinese)

https://www.nynu.edu.cn/info/1048/26274.htm