Cang Jie

Cangjie or Cang Jie (仓 颉chinese /仓 颉), also known as Chongkit ( Cantonese pronunciation ), is a legendary figure in ancient China ( circa 2650 BC). He will be the roles as historian of the legendary Yellow Emperor (2697-2597 BC or 2696-2598 BC) and awarded the Miterfindung of Chinese characters. The Cangjie input method for Chinese characters is named after him.

Legend

According to legend, the Chinese people used originally knotted cords of various records, similar Quipu, and noticed as Cangjie how you could represent birds and animals in general by their footprints, he understood how you could represent with written forms, and developed characters. It is said that he had four eyes, each with double pupils, as only three men of Chinese mythology: Cangjie, Emperor Shun and Xiang Yǔ.

The story of Cangjie was already known in the time of the Warring States Period. It is written that in Huáinánzǐ (淮南子) "as Cangjie created the characters, millet fell like rain from heaven and ghosts cried at night. Like human intelligence rises reaches its virtue." Xǔ Shen wrote in the preface to Shuowen jiezi, the first Chinese dictionary, that "the first character that created Cangjie, based on outlines and wén (文) mean composite characters were developed later and hot zì (字). "