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Cangjie Inventing Chinese Characters After Observing Bird Footprints

🐉 Chinese MythologyBaishui, Shaanxi, ChinaCangjie • Yellow Emperor

Cangjie, an official historian for the Yellow Emperor, is credited with inventing Chinese characters by observing the patterns of bird footprints in the sand. By distilling the essence of nature into symbols, he created a writing system that allowed humans to record history and knowledge for the first time.