中国的方块汉字及其发展历程最能体现中华文化(包括人们的思维方式)的民族风格。汉字的创造,许慎提出‘六书’,即象形、指事、会意、形声、转注、假借六项,而象形是最初的,许慎说:‘苍颉之初作书,盖依类象形,故谓之文。’又说:‘象形者,画成其物,随体诘诎,日月是也。’(《说文解字序》)其他五项都是从象形逐渐演变而来,故宋代文字学家郑樵说:‘六书也者,象形为本。’(《通志·卷三十一·六书》(杨树达说:‘象形者,图画也。为客观的、模仿的、具体的。先有形而后有字,是为字生于形。指事者,符号也。为主观的、创造的、抽象的。先有字而后有形,是为形生字。’(《中国文字学概 China’s Chinese characters and its development process can most embody the national style of Chinese culture (including people’s way of thinking). Chinese characters, Xu Shen put forward the ’six books’, that is pictographic, referring to things, knowing, shaped sound, note transfer, under the guise of six, and pictographic is the first, Xu Shen said:’ Cang Jie beginning of the book, , So that the text. And then said: ’pictographic person, painted as its object, with body 诘 诎, the sun and the moon is also. ’(“Explain Word Order”) The other five are gradually evolved from the pictogram, so the Song Dynasty writer Zheng Qiao said:’ Six books also, pictographic-based. (Yang Tongda said: “The pictographs, pictures are also objective, imitative, and concrete.” The first thing that comes before the second is the word “shape”. The symbols, too, are subjective, created, and abstract.