Language and technology 3 Flashcards
When The Chinese characters
became a mature text？
in the Shang Dynasty in the16th century BC
In wich dynasty a movable type printing technique was invented？
In the Song Dynasty, a movable type printing technique was invented, and a new type of printed font appeared, called the Song font. The Chinese font most commonly used on our computers now is the Song font
When was Chinese Characters standardized？
In 1956, the State Council approved the “Chinese Character Simplification Plan”
How many word formation methods？
1.Pictography；
2.Self-explanatory characters(Ideographs指事)
3.Combined ideographs (会意)
4.)Pictophonetic method(Phonetic-semantic compounds形声
When was approved character simplification plan?
Character Simplification Plan approved by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China on January 28, 1956.
What is the principle of the simplification of the Chinese characters?
The principle of the simplification of the Chinese characters is: “Pass on the ancient culture without adding anything new to it, stick to the convention established by usage, and steadily move forward.”
WHAT IS 4 GREAT CHINESE INVENTIONS ?
1 GUNPOWER
2.PAPERMAKING
3. COMPAS
4.PRINTING
WHICH DYNASTY GUNPOWDER WAS INWENTED?
Books of the middle Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) recorded the method of producing this kind of gunpowder.
When was printing tecnics was invented?
On the basis of printing using carved blocks in the Tang Dynasty, Bi Sheng (毕昇)of the Northern Song Dynasty invented movable type printing in the 1040s, which ushered in a major revolution in the history of printing.
When was paper was invented?
China was the first country in the world to make proper paper. Paper made during the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC-16 AD) has been found in Gansu Province, Xi‘an and other places in Shaanxi Province as well as Xinjiang. A further development of paper is credited to Cai Lun(蔡伦) of the Eastern Han (25-220). He used plant fiber such as tree bark, bits of rope, rags and worn-out fishing nets as raw materials.
When was compas invented?
In the Song Dynasty, the compass was invented.
