How to let children get rid of "painting cats and tigers" in the process of learning Chinese characters, and have a thorough understanding of Chinese character culture? Recently, Gao Jinping, a calligrapher from Songjiang who is good at oracle bone calligraphy, collected his research on Suri and published a book for primary and secondary school students to popularize oracle bone inscriptions. The book carefully selects 100 characters, traces the roots in the form of pictographic evolution, outlines the origin of each character, and allows beginners and students to learn and understand the evolution of Chinese characters through popular and concrete pictures.
The process of writing Chinese characters is not so much a 'book' as a 'painting'. In Gao Jinping's view, from the earliest pictographic oracle bone script to today's smooth and concise simplified characters, the form of Chinese character fonts has continued to evolve and develop, but its ideographic connotation has always had a context to follow. In the process of writing oracle bone inscriptions and other calligraphy for many years, he paid attention to sorting out the pictographic evolution of different Chinese characters from the oracle bone inscription era, and expressed them in the form of calligraphy works. This collation also further inspired the birth of the "Painting and Understanding Oracle Bone Inscriptions" reader.
How to connect the abstract oracle bone inscription with the Chinese characters used in daily life, and help primary and secondary school students quickly understand and learn? "Painting and Knowing Oracle Bone Inscriptions" starts from the list of commonly used characters in the "Compulsory Education Chinese Curriculum Standards" (2022 Edition) designated by the Ministry of Education, and selects 100 Chinese characters with simple configurations and high reproducibility rates.
Learning to read and learn words is not only to know what it is, but also to know why it is so. And this book opens a window for children to understand Chinese characters in the form of 'paintings'. Xie Hong, the former editor-in-chief of Phoenix Children's Publishing House, who participated in the publication of this book, said bluntly that the integration of oracle bone inscription into daily Chinese character teaching in the form of popular science books can not only enhance the ability of young people to learn and use words, but also effectively promote the activation and inheritance of oracle bone inscription, an ancient form of writing.
*: Shanghai Songjiang.