When I was a child doing my Chinese homework, I was very curious about how Chinese characters came about and why they looked the way they did. Whenever I asked such questions, my teacher would dismissively reply, "Children shouldn't ask so many questions, nor do you need to know why. Just copy them, and you will memorize them after copying them a few more times." As it turned out, the teacher did not know the answer either. Gradually, I grew to dislike Chinese characters more and more. I felt that learning Chinese characters could only rely on rote memorization, which lacked any logic, making them difficult to understand, remember, and write, and highly unscientific. When I grew up, while teaching in the university's Department of Information Management and serving as the library director, perhaps because my past confusion about Chinese characters lingered, I unexpectedly became obsessed with oracle bone script. This sparked the idea of using big data correlation analysis to crack them. To my surprise, I could not stop from then on, because I was astonished to discover that Chinese characters are actually a highly logical system of pictorial language, which hides many unknown and precious heritages.
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