The Swedish Sinologist Cecilia Lindqvist’ Tecknens Rike And The Teaching Of Chinese Characters

Distinguished Sinologist, Cecilia Lindqvist, was studying Chinese in Beijinguniversity. Since1971, she taught Chinese class in Sweden, it is the first time to setChinese class in Sweden high school. Cecilia Lindqvist’s masterpiece Tecknens Rikepublished in1989, the book introduces the origin of Chinese characters, the structureof Chinese characters, and especially analyzed the formations of Chinese characters indetail. Also, the book has told the pictographic meaning, which is surrounding the glyphstructure evolution history and culture. This paper introduces the Tecknens Rike inthree aspects, and according to this book, the writer talks about how to teach Chinesecharacters from the perspective of culture.This paper is divided into four parts: the first part summarizes the background ofCecilia lindqvist’s research, and also summarizes the meaning of studying TecknensRike;The second part introduces the Tecknens Rike from three aspects in detail; Thethird part is a valuation of Tecknens Rike;The last part is mainly discusses how to teachChinese characters from with a new method.