Graceful olympic Symbols

The 2008 Olympics Games has adopted a set of symbols to represent the beauty of Chinese calligraphy.By combining certain features of different traditional forms of Chinese characters，the symbols appear both lively and highly representative of the sports they stand for.

Although Chinese is a pictographic language，it does not consist of language pictures.Early pictographic languages were mostly represented by language pictures，which imitated the external characteristics of things.For these languages，language symbols were not much different from pictures，as with the pictographic hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt.

At its beginning，Chinese also included language pictures，which became fewer and fewer during the period of the oracle-bone inscriptions.Most symbols were made up of simple lines.

For example，the oracle-bone inscription for”dog”was written as 犬.Instead of a drawing，a few simple yet highly symbolic lines were used to depict the image of a dog.

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