The character chai 拆- dismantle

The character chai 拆- dismantle

The character chai 拆- dismantle The character chai 拆- dismantle One of the most frequent characters in the urban scenery of the China of the development and the transformation is chai 拆- dismantle.  Any walk through the old neighborhoods of most Chinese cities...
The Peach, fruit of immortality

The Peach, fruit of immortality

The Peach, fruit of immortality The Peach, fruit of immortality In my «Manual of Writing Chinese Characters» (1) I hold an opinion contrary to that of most scholars of Chinese characters, and that is that the formation of the so-called picto-phonetic characters...
Chinese character for «snake»

Chinese character for «snake»

Chinese character for «snake” Chinese character for «snake” The Chinese character to represent the snake has undergone over the centuries a curious evolution that, although seen from the cultural perspective of the XXI century may seem strange, it will not be so much...