The Kingdom of Chinese Characters tells the characteristics of the origin of Chinese characters in the form of pictures and texts, and selects more than 200 characters related to human life for detailed explanation, such as human body, house, utensils, silk Characters related to hemp, livestock, farm tools, cars, boats, roads, etc. are also analyzed and described to describe the Chinese people's lifestyle and customs, thus allowing people to deepen their understanding of the characters.
"Kingdom of Chinese Characters" contains the Chinese characters we use every day, tracing their origins from the glyphs, and telling the story of the social, economic, and cultural changes of a nation.
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The author of "Kingdom of Chinese Characters" is Lin Xili.
Lin Xili, Swedish, born in 1932. ?Lincily’s Swedish name is Cecilia Lindqvist, now a professor, writer and photographer. Since 1971, Lin Xili has been a Chinese teacher in Sweden. After 1978, she made Chinese language programs for Swedish TV.
She went to China for more than ten years of field research to write "The Kingdom of Chinese Characters". Because she couldn't wait for the publication of the archaeological report, she decided to go to the archaeological site in person to find the original stories of the Chinese characters.
Lin Xili regularly visits several major archaeological sites in Henan, Shaanxi, Shandong and other places in China every year, which has become a part of Lin Xili’s life. This is still the case today, 20 years after the completion of "Kingdom of Chinese Characters",
"Because my interest is related to Chinese characters, and there are too many things to learn." Whenever I find something in one place, If a tool or cultural relic is related to the shape of a certain character, she will be extremely excited: "There are too many Chinese characters, and I still have many new things worth learning.
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Baidu Encyclopedia—Lin Xili