文字是语言和文明的载体，它使得语言和文明得以延续和发扬。数千年来，汉字承载了中华文化的丰富内涵和底蕴，维系了中华民族绵延的历史。学习汉语，汉字是绕不开的重要内容和进阶基础。

    《学汉字 知中国》是一门主要针对留学生汉语言专业的本科课程，同时也适合国内非中文专业的本科生、世界各个地区的汉语学习者和相关从业人员、对汉字感兴趣的社会人士。本课程内容涵盖汉字的起源、字体发展、造字法、汉字中体现的中国社会文化，以及现代汉字的结构、读音等汉字学习的基础知识，还有汉字的改革演变和具体的学习方法等内容。

    本课程的特色体现在：1、课程不仅仅是一门语言专项技能课，其教学内容以汉字相关知识为主，开拓学生知识的广度和深度，打破汉字学习的瓶颈，为汉语的进阶学习再铺一块垫脚石；2、主要针对有一定汉语、汉字基础的留学生，授课深入浅出，帮助学生克服汉字学习的畏惧心理。同时配以中英双语字幕和课件，便于知识的理解和吸收。

    我们试图呈现汉字的前世今生，让学习者体味汉字的精妙、感受汉字强大的自我更新能力和与时俱进、充满勃勃生机的气质面貌，从而领略中国文化的内在精神与发展动力。

                                                  An Overview of this course

    Written language is the carrier of language and civilization, so that language and civilization can be continued and carried forward. For thousands of years, Chinese characters have carried the rich connotation of Chinese culture and maintained the continuous history of the Chinese nation. Chinese characters are an important content and basis that can not be bypassed for learners to improve Chinese language skills.

     Our course, "Xue hanzi, zhi Zhongguo"(Learning Chinese characters and knowing China) is a undergraduate course mainly aimed at foreign students majored in Chinese language and culture, and it is not only fit for students from other majors, relevant practitioners, but also Chinese learners from all regions of the world as well as the public who are interested in Chinese characters. The content of this course covers the origin of Chinese characters, form development, character-making method, social culture embodied in Chinese characters, as well as the structure of modern Chinese characters, pronunciation and other basic knowledge of Chinese characters learning, the reform and evolution of Chinese characters and specific learning method.

    The characteristics of this course are as follows: 1, the course is not only a special course of language skills, but mainly based on the relevant knowledge of Chinese characters. It will develop the breadth and depth of students' knowledge, and break the bottleneck of Chinese character learning, to lay another stepping stone for the advanced Chinese learning; 2, mainly for foreign students with a certain basis of Chinese and Chinese characters. The lecture explain profound content in simple language, and try to help students to overcome the fear of learning Chinese characters. It is accompanied by bilingual subtitles both in Chinese and English, which is convenient for the understanding and absorption of knowledge.

    We try to present the past and present of Chinese characters, letting learners feel the ingenious Chinese characters, the strong self-renewal ability of Chinese characters and the temperament of keeping pace with the times, full of vitality, so as to appreciate the inherent spirit and development motive force of Chinese culture.

    本课程旨在打造一门高质量的线上汉字知识类的课程，为汉语学习者的进阶学习提供学习资源。具体课程目标包括：

    1、在汉字的相关知识方面，使学习者建立较完备的汉字知识图景。

    （1）理解和掌握汉字历史发展的脉络

    （2）理解汉字的自我更新和社会发展的关系

    （3）掌握从字音、字义和字形方面来分析汉字的方法

    （4）掌握并形成自学汉字的科学方法

    （5）养成规范书写、使用汉字的意识

    2、在汉字文化方面，理解汉字是中华文化伦理价值观、基本精神的结晶。

从饮食、服饰、行旅、建筑和生命仪式等方面来剖析汉字的文化特征，趣味性和知识性相结合，使学习者正确理解汉字形成的理据性。同时通过汉字故事的小动画拓展中华文化知识，消除对汉字学习的畏难情绪，加深对古代和当代中国各方面的了解。

                                          Objective of this Course

   The purpose of this course is to build a high-quality online course of Chinese character, and provide learning resources for the advanced study of Chinese learners. The specific course objectives include:

    1.In the aspect of Chinese character related knowledge, learners can establish a more complete Chinese character knowledge.

    (1) Understanding and mastering the Historical Development of Chinese characters

    (2) Understanding the relationship between self-renewal of Chinese characters and Social Development

    (3) Mastering the method of analyzing Chinese characters from the aspects of pronunciation, meaning and form.

    (4) Mastering and forming scientific methods of learning Chinese characters by oneself

    (5) Developing the consciousness of standardizing writing and using Chinese characters

    2.In the aspect of Chinese character culture, understanding Chinese characters is the crystallization of ethical values and basic spirit of Chinese culture.

    This course analyzes the cultural characteristics of Chinese characters from the aspects of diet, clothing, travel, architecture and convention, trying to combine both interest and knowledge. It enable learners to correctly understand the motivation of the formation of Chinese characters. At the same time, the knowledge of Chinese culture is expanded through the small animation of Chinese character stories. The course also aims to eliminate the fear of learning Chinese characters, and deepen understanding of ancient/ contemporary China in all aspects. 

1、具备大致相当于HSK3级或以上语言水平

2、或者具备600以上的汉字量，大致了解有关汉字历史演变、形体结构的一些基础知识

                           Preliminary knowledge

1. Have a language level roughly equivalent to HSK 3 or above.

2. Or master more than 600 Chinese characters, have general understanding of some basic knowledge about the historical evolution , form structure of Chinese characters.

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李大遂2013 《简明实用汉字学》，北京：北京大学出版社 

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