On The Evolution Of Chinese Character From The Human Cognition Angle

This thesis mainly studies the evolution of Chinese Character, trying to explain the reason of the evolution from the angle of cognition more intensively and rationally. The main conclusions of this article are the following:Firstly, it is found that there is a close relation between the basic principles of gestalt perception and simplification: the closure rule implies that the perception of human being can treat the simplified Character as unbroken; the simplifying methods like borrowing the strokes, the semantic components, even the whole character, should be in accordance with the proximity rule and the equality rule while the selectivity of perception and the understanding of perception are the leading reasons of only the key components being kept.Secondly, in the evolution of "pianpang hua", it is clearly seen that the basic categories of the perception is the possibility and the necessity of the development, "pianpang hua" mirrors the categorization of human cognition. Furthermore, after this evolution, people make new characters with the semantic components which imply the basic categories of human perception and their related sense actively and conscientiously.Thirdly, we discuss the relation of "sheng hua" and synesthesia and their influence on Chinese Character, "sheng hua" enables Chinese Character to have phonetic function besides graphemic function. This phenomena meets the requirements of synesthesia. So Chinese Character bears more redundancy than phonetic transcription, becoming a veritable "Two Hemispheres' Character". It is the high redundancy that lead to the further simplification of Chinese Character.