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Cangjie
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Cangjie is a legendary figure in Chinese mythology, said to have been an official historian of the Yellow Emperor and the inventor of Chinese characters. Legend has it that he had four eyes, and that when he invented the characters, the deities and ghosts cried and the sky rained millet. He is considered a legendary rather than historical figure, or at least not considered to be the sole inventor of Chinese characters. Cangjie was the eponym for the Cangjiepian proto-dictionary, the Cangjie method of inputting characters into a computer, and a Martian rock visited by the Mars rover Spirit, and
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Cangjie Chen was a male human who lived during the third millennium BCE. He is identified as a writer, inventor, culture hero, and minister. He spoke and wrote Chinese.
His professional roles included serving as a minister. He is also recognized for his contributions as an inventor and a culture hero.
Cangjie Chen is the author of two works. These include Xue qian jiao yu xin fa and Jian kang mi ji.
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- Works
- 2
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- Xue qian jiao yu xin fa
- Jian kang mi ji
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- Gender
- male
- Occupation
- culture hero
- Position held
- minister
- Languages spoken
- Chinese
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- Legend of character creation
- Remains and commemorations
- See also
- References
Cangjie is a legendary figure in Chinese mythology, said to have been an official historian of the Yellow Emperor and the inventor of Chinese characters. Legend has it that he had four eyes, and that when he invented the characters, the deities and ghosts cried and the sky rained millet. He is considered a legendary rather than historical figure, or at least not considered to be the sole inventor of Chinese characters. Cangjie was the eponym for the Cangjiepian proto-dictionary, the Cangjie method of inputting characters into a computer, and a Martian rock visited by the Mars rover Spirit, and named by the rover team.
==Legend of character creation== thumb|left|Portrait of Cangjie (National Palace Museum) thumb|Bronze relief of Cangjie (as ''Ts'ang Chieh'') by Lee Lawrie, 1939, at the [[Library of Congress's John Adams Building, Washington, D.C.]] There are several versions of the legend.
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