A chinese coffin is made with three longer boards and two shorter boards so in chinese language the phrase of sanchang liangduan 三长两短 san chang lyang dwan three long two short is used as an idiom for unexpected misfortune like death. A logogram is a written character which represents a word or morpheme a vast number of logograms are needed to write chinese characters cuneiform and mayan where a glyph may stand for a morpheme a syllable or both logoconsonantal in the case of hieroglyphs many logograms have an ideographic component chinese radicals hieroglyphic determiners. However scholars have found evidence of early chinese writing from the 10th century bce.
The exact date of when the chinese began writing is a mystery. As for love and sex education that s perhaps a topic for the next two sessions. Gu s proposal might lead to more discussions on death education in chinese schools in the time to come.
Love sex and death education ought to be simultaneously provided agreed another. Writing all characters according to the same rules assures that their intended shape and style are generally preserved even if written by different writers. That all chinese characters are composed of are to be written in a certain order which has originally been defined by chinese calligraphy.
To die death rigid to the death extremely. Note that a lot of the terms here are very formal archaic or otherwise inappropriate. I found this list of various chinese words for death organised into different categories and i ve roughly translated it here with a few additions.
A grim but interesting topic. Mandarin 60 chinese words for death.
