46.China is (1)w
known for its ancient (2)c
which has continued all the way through into modern (3)t
,despite the many ups and downs in its history.There are many reasons why this has been possible,but one of the main (4)f
has been,the Chinese (5)w
system.
At the (6)b
,written Chinese was a picture-based(7)l
.It (8)d
back several thousand years to the use of longgu-animal bones and shells on which (9)s
were(10)c
by ancient Chinese people.Some of the ancient symbols can still be seen in today's hanzi.