Journal of Asian Restudy 2021 Fall
Asian culture has played a very important role in the human history, and had made great contribution to the evolution of the human civilization. However, there are many people who still have much misunderstanding about Asian culture, or simply don’t take it as important as it should be, since the power of advanced technology has convinced many people of the leading position of the science-based western culture. The Asian culture had its glorious periods thousands years and centuries ago, but had been in its downturn for quite a while now. Isn’t it the time to re-study it, and let its beauty shine again to the world?
Asian culture has played a very important role in the human history, and had made great contribution to the evolution of the human civilization. However, there are many people who still have much misunderstanding about Asian culture, or simply don’t take it as important as it should be, since the power of advanced technology has convinced many people of the leading position of the science-based western culture. The Asian culture had its glorious periods thousands years and centuries ago, but had been in its downturn for quite a while now. Isn’t it the time to re-study it, and let its beauty shine again to the world?
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classic Chinese characters, however, due to the fact that they had
been the colony of France in modern history, they have now changed
their writing to a system of phonetic symbol by borrowing the French
alphabets. Nevertheless, we can still hear the trace of originality by
their pronunciation in all these languages by assuming some of those
words are from Chinese languages.
Chinese built an agricultural civilization in a water-rich inland territory,
so the farms were the main economic force of the nation. Chinese
peasants had started to watch on nature of the monthly shift of stars
positions, the daily movement of the sun and moon, and repeatedly
life cycle change of the plants each year surrounding them long
before they built a sophisticated and well documented language in
order to obtain enough foods through hunting, planting and
harvesting crops. So they developed a system of symbols from their
observation, in order to satisfy their need for communication and
other religious and cultural practices, which contributed to form a
pictographic language. The similar scenario should apply to Egypt on
Nile, and the countries belong to the Mesopotamia civilization which
was built on the rich soil fertilized by the river of Tigris and Euphrates
east to Mediterranean ocean. So it is just reasonable to say that their
ancient language words should also contain semantic symbols.
Ancient Egypt was located in a very interesting geographical position.
It was just across a body of water south to ancient Greece and Rome,
while closely connected to the middle east world by its east side, and
it is the case even now. Its language belongs to Afroasian language
family, having great cultural and economic affiliation with Arabic
nations, at the same time, no doubt could have influenced the culture
of ancient Greek people, and vice versa. During the fourth century
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