Объяснение:
The main attention in the schools of feudal China was given to memorizing hieroglyphs. There is no alphabet in the Chinese language: each subject, each concept is expressed in a letter with a special sign - a hieroglyph - or a combination of several hieroglyphs, which are made up of various features and strokes.
Modern hieroglyphics evolved from picturesque writing, otherwise called pictography. Signs of picturesque writing reflected the appearance, form of individual objects or phenomena of reality surrounding a person. Gradually simplifying and sketching, the drawings turned into a system of ideographic writing, in which each sign conveyed the most general idea of the object, phenomenon, concept designated by it.
The total number of Chinese characters reaches 80 thousand. Such a huge figure is due to the fact that for many centuries of the existence of hieroglyphic writing, Chinese writers came up with new hieroglyphs that are preserved only in their works. So a number of characters found in Chinese dictionaries are not used at all. The writers and poets of the Song Dynasty (X – XIII centuries) were especially distinguished by the compilation of new hieroglyphs.
Actually in all types of texts no more than 10 thousand hieroglyphs were used. To read the ancient Confucian books, it was necessary to know up to 7 thousand characters.
Chinese characters are difficult to write: each of them consists of several traits (from one to 52). The most common two thousand characters have an average of 11 features. To learn such a number of written characters and remember the order of their writing, it required a tremendous strain of memory.
At the beginning of the XX century. In China, there were two written languages at the same time - Baihua and Wenyan, both hieroglyphic, but at the same time very different from each other. Baihua is a literary language based on the norms of colloquial speech and therefore understandable to the general public. The words in baihua are usually two-syllable. Wenyang is an archaic literary language, the word in it consists of one syllable, which corresponds to the sign of hieroglyphic writing. Wenyang is based on the norms of the ancient language and is not perceived by ear, but only visually. In Wenyang, all Confucian books are written.