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A Review on the Pictographic feature and Poetic Image of the Simplified Chinese Characters : Focusing on ‘lai 来’ and ‘jia 夹’

KyungJin Choi 1

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Simplified Chinese Characters were composed on the basis of cursive style with abbreviated strokes, which has considerable influence upon the education for the Simplified Characters as well as the appreciation of literature written by making use of them. According to Han Yu (韓愈), cursive style often attains more delicacy through the pictographic aspect of characters by re-communicating sympathy with matters. From this point of view, this paper pay attention to the pictographic origins and features of ‘lai来’ and ‘jia夹’, and their esthetic effects on the appreciation of literature. First of all, as in the meaning of ‘the Simplified Character, lai 来’, i.e. ‘coming’, which have been appeared several in the poems of Tang Dynasty, there is a great feeling of exotic and unusual images similar to that of Zhou Dynasty (周代) when wheat and barley were firstly imported from the foreign land to China, it has been examined that how the images originated in ‘lai 来’, which has the pictography of wheat and barley, could be made good use of for appreciating the works of literature. Secondly, in case of the Simplified Character, ‘jia夹’, attention being given to its pictographic aspect of bowing politely one's head (揖禮), it has been argued, within the limit positively cognized and exploited, that the ‘jia 夾’, presented several in the poems of Tang Dynasty, promotes potentially the ability of poetic appreciation through its image rlated to bowing politely (揖禮).

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