The wisdom in Chinese characters

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19 күн бұрын

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For Ragnar Baldursson, sinologist and Iceland's former minister counselor to China, Chinese characters contain the DNA of the Chinese civilization. What wisdom is embedded in these mysterious ideograms? How does Confucianism encapsulate the concept of sustainable development? How has China's traditional culture permeated today's society? Baldursson shares his journey toward a greater understanding of Chinese wisdom through Chinese characters, one stroke at a time. #NishanForum2024 #10thNishan #ChinaTalk
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@richardong6640 Күн бұрын

Every single written Chinese character is an art form itself.

@jimmylee1776 17 күн бұрын

Thank you for this video. You know more about Chinese writing than me (a Chinese). God bless you.

@guytruth5598 3 күн бұрын

Thank you very much for promoting Chinese culture traditional heritage

@ongsengfook 18 күн бұрын

Simplified Chinese was invented to quickly solve illiteracy among Chinese after Qing dynasty. It was estimated only 5% of Chinese could read or write then. It will be good to reintroduce Traditional Chinese where the characters are more meaningful.

@JWscandi 17 күн бұрын

same reason with the invention of korean alphabets in Joseon era, whom used chinese as medium of education.

@JWscandi 17 күн бұрын

it was Mao whom realised the idea of the simplified chinese characters, it was done during his administration. At 1st he wanted to eliminate the chinese characters altogether and use pinyin just like Vietnam. Mao is the greatest chinese flaw - at least in chinese modern history. Unfortunately the chinese were "brainwashed" to idolise him. In 1990s, even in early 2000s, the chinese still singing "Mao is the sky (i.e. heaven) and the sun" of the chinese ppl. I shook my head in disbelief! Wat a shame!

@horridohobbies 17 күн бұрын

@@JWscandi It is insulting and racist to call the Chinese "brainwashed." They are perfectly capable of independent thought. They revere Mao for good reasons. He unified a country that was previously in total chaos. He laid the foundation for the future development of China. The Chinese have decided to forgive Mao for his ill-conceived policies (Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution). They recognize that Mao was human and capable of making mistakes. He had the best of intentions; he was a true patriot. Without Mao, Deng Xiaoping would've had a much tougher time pushing China's development forward in 1979.

@vueport99 17 күн бұрын

Absolutely agree that traditional Chinese characters embody the true nature and elegance of the Chinese. Simplified was a hack. Time to restore the good stuff

@chengyangooi4694 17 күн бұрын

I think introduce both. Simplified and traditional. Now with computer, typing traditional characters is the same effort as typing simplified word

@bleung52 18 күн бұрын

Another problem of Simplified Chinese is that some characters were being over-simplified such that a single character replaces a few different traditional characters and cannot be properly translated back by computer software : 干 - (天)干, (能)幹, 乾(坤)...肖 - (相)肖, 俏(麗), 肖(姓), 蕭(姓)...Of course, a lot of people misread and thereby misunderstand them.

@bleung52 18 күн бұрын

Learning Traditional Chinese is very important to read ancient manuscripts. Simplified Chinese has already served its historical purpose (權宜之計!) The wise authority should therefore consider to revive the learning of Traditional Chinese. I learned that nowadays most Koreans could not recognize the characters of the name-plates at the gate or entrance of their historic palace when they pay a visit to it.

@bertanelson8062 15 күн бұрын

Such basic formative precepts upon which to create a culture. Cooperation & trust between, with & for we, the people! Thank you, China!

@cam35mm 2 күн бұрын

I believe that the Chinese language's difficult nature has helped develop an overall smarter society. It combines language and art. Do not try to simplify it anymore, or it will negatively affect future generations. Learning the language of any child is always their first classroom. The question is whether you want your language to be simple arithmetic or algebra.

@MyVoice-bn1vj 18 күн бұрын

Change the world China wisdom

@user-py1lu9wn8t 17 күн бұрын

和信是中國人的傳統理念！感謝您説出來讓更多的人知道！

@mingto7753 17 күн бұрын

Thank you, Mr Baldursson for the nice lecture. I learned the basics of the Chinese language over 60 years ago in HK and can still remember most of it, but I share the joy of rediscovery when I see someone not a native Chinese speaker, obviously appreciating the language. The wisdom of the Chinese language goes much deeper than what was discussed here. I made a recent comment on Confucius' contribution to the interpretation of the Gua's in the I-Ching Bagua, (Weinstein and Keating interview, Utube) in which comment I mentioned the use of 'tiling sentences' having a wide range of meanings (discussion using Dr Terry Tao's math lecture, also Utube) . These sentences can function as the 'wave function collapse' for different applications of tiling in space and time, dynamically, using quantum computer modeling, much similar to guided Qubits in Mathematical tiling space. The work involved in these new applications will provide careers to young and old quantum modelers for years to come.

@thetruthandnobs 18 күн бұрын

Very good. 👍

@pravdaseed64 17 күн бұрын

MAGNIFICENT MERITOCRACY Of CHINA 💯%. i wish 🧞 i was Chinese 💯%. 💚🐉🇨🇳🐉💚 💜☸️☯️🕉️💜

@gritnltw 17 күн бұрын

Learning Chinese and in order to learn Chinese characters I was asking my Chinese teachers to tell me the story behind every character to really understand them. Unfortunately none really knew and were telling me to just memorize them. But then you loose 99% of the richness of the language and the “reason” of everything. There is always a reason.

@jivvyjack7723 17 күн бұрын

You are too simplistic. Not every Chinese character has a story. The bigger bulk of chinese characters are based on pronunciation or ideographic using original simpler components.

@santiwd5006 6 күн бұрын

@@jivvyjack7723You said so because you don't know the origin of those characters

@jivvyjack7723 6 күн бұрын

@@santiwd5006 And you do? Rather big headed, aren't you?

@gritnltw 3 күн бұрын

@@jivvyjack7723 Even so, if you learn the meaning of the characters that are used for the sound, then you learn the sound as well and you later learn why the said character is used for its sound. If you learn the radicals, then you have more chances to learn the more complex characters. For everything there is a reason. Your point of view is rather simplistic.

@jivvyjack7723 3 күн бұрын

@@gritnltw I know all that. I was replying to the comment that there's a story behind every character. And I disagreed. So is your comment relevant to the topic of the OP which was posted by yourself?

@WendyBost 16 күн бұрын

Thank you for this interesting video. I would like to learn to speak and write Chinese language. - Does anyone know of reliable sources online? - without breaking my bank account... :) I understand that google is the go-to... but I would like to have advice from someone with personal experience of learning the language please. Thank you.

@sib5th 4 сағат бұрын

There’re many YT sites teaching beginners’ mandarin (putonghua), but proper speech can only be learned through listening & speaking with native speakers. Officially, I would suggest using HSK 1-9 list of words vocabulary as a guide, because that’s the proficiency standard used by the government. First start learning pinyin and get a good CE & EC dictionary - an especially good one is by Li Dong ( 2 volumes, CE and EC, published by Tuttle). [CE = Chinese English, EC = English Chinese ].

@existentialbaby 17 күн бұрын

♥️♥️♥️

@ribeirojorge5064 3 сағат бұрын

The Universe is Not a Hierarchical Pyramid of Mathematic Quantities The Universe is a Holarchic Sphere of Spheres of Consciousness Qualities Thaaannnk Yooouuu China 🇨🇳 ❤️💚💜

@rafiq4920 4 күн бұрын

由一個外籍漢學家來講述中華文化與文字，除了幫助英語世界的觀眾建立對中國的初步理解外，對國人的意義在於讓我們重新看見自己固有而值得珍惜的傳承，也稍微了解一些外人視察中國的角度、如何運用他們自己的學習心得來提升思维、强化論述。説到孔子對 “信”這個概念最强有力的一句話，那是 “自古皆有死，民無信不立”。世上一些没文化的衣冠蠻夷，還在 “兵” 與 “食” 上用力，談 “信” 恐怕早了千年。

@beginninginnewyork3459 2 күн бұрын

tomb above

@JihouGijutsu 16 күн бұрын

something i always find interesting is how humans grew to be convenient. they stopped gathering in interest of hunting and continue to find ways to make things convenient. at the expense of others. its much harder to farm plants than animals. thats why feed crops are so prevalent. corn and soy.

@ecc1417 2 күн бұрын

❤️❤️❤️👍🇨🇳🤝🇨🇳👍❤️❤️❤️

@erictsai1140 Күн бұрын

民為貴社稷次之君為輕

@suikilam 7 сағат бұрын

閣下如果有機會到米國生活，你就一定會領略到，甚麼是真正的，民為貴，社稷次之，君為輕。

@user-xp1wh3hj6g 3 сағат бұрын

在中國，儒教與儒術是兩回事。自漢武帝罷絀百家獨尊儒術，自此儒教的民本思想，就曲服於帝王制度。也就是說被利用了，就如同康斯坦丁大帝，立基督教為國教，而將來神子改變為教皇一樣。

@soongyongseng6961 16 күн бұрын

「和」=禾（grains）+口（mouth） Literally means when one is fed, he tends to calm down and rest. Hence, comes the phrases, like 和平peaceful, 和气no quarrel & etc. It reflects in the central philosophy of Confusionalism. Nevertheless, the Western minds of "Peace" is "Pea" (food) + "ce" (Conquer and Engulf), meaning that once the Westerners is fed, they will greedily conquer & collonise other countries and Engulf the wealth of these nations.