Each Chinese character is a poem, a painting, a story, an episode in history, a legend, a drama full of wisdom ...... Each Chinese character is vividly flowing with the bloodline of our Chinese ancestors, recording the thousands of years of life and social changes of the Han people. This course introduces the origin of Chinese characters, the evolution of Chinese characters, and the interesting stories brought to us by a group of pictographs, phonograms, associate compounds characters, and ideograms.