Several earliest scripts of the world are pictographs(象形文字, xiang-xing-wen-zi), such as that of Egypt, India and China.
世界上好几种最早的文字都是象形文字,如埃及、印度、中国的文字。
How is the Universe created? According to the myth of ancient China, it is created by a divine being called Pan-Gu(盘古).
宇宙是怎样生成的?按照古代中国的神话传说,是由一位名叫“盘古”的神人创造的。
What is the zong-zi(粽子)? Briefly, it is just a kind of traditional food, which has been consumed by Chinese since at least several thousand years ago.粽子是什么?简单地说,它只是中国的一种传统食品,至少从几千年前以来,中国人就都一直在吃它了.
龍(long, as 龙 in Simplified Character)is a supernatural being of ancient China, which is generally translated as DRAGON in English. However it is absolutely different from the DRAGON of western concept.
So what is the DRAGON in China?
Actually, Chinese characters are not difficult to learn, because these scripts are pictographs, many of them are like pictures. Now we continue to talk about them.
实际上,汉字并不难学,因为它们是象形文字,许多字和图画差不多。今天,我们继续谈。
A lot of people think the Chinese character is difficult to write. But I am sure that it is not only easy to learn, but also interesting, if you are master of its KNACK. 许多人都认为汉字很难写。但是我相信,只要你掌握了窍门,学习汉字就不但很容易,而且很有趣。