Cangjie

The portents are the interesting part and the tradition has always read them as ambivalent: millet falls because writing will let people keep accounts and grow rich, and the ghosts weep because writing will let people deceive and be deceived, and because what is written down can no longer be forgotten. A civilisation whose identity rests on its script produced, at the moment of the script's invention, a story about what it would cost. He was not in the registry.

Domains

• writing

Relations

• subordinate to: HuangdiHis historian, which is the office the invention is attached to.Reference treatment of Cangjie as the official historian of the Yellow Emperor. (secondary)

Sources

• Cangjie is the four-eyed historian of the Yellow Emperor who invented Chinese characters, at which the gods and ghosts wept and millet fell from the sky.: Reference treatment of Cangjie, his four eyes and the portents at the invention. (secondary)