Ancient Chinese Documents

I am mentioning here a few well known ancient Chinese works.

i Ching, or Book of Changes, is an ancient book of Chinese wisdom attributed to the Chinese Emperor Fu Hsi (2953 - 2838 B.C.) and is believed to be one of the oldest books in the world and has had a  major influence on Chinese philosophy and religion.

One well known work is a military piece known as The Art of War, a famous Chinese document from the 5th century, It is attibuted to Sun Tzu, a Chinese general and can be read at https://suntzusaid.com/

 

Chinese lessons

A web site with 32 Chinese lessons including sound files can be found at Chinese Center.com http://www.chinaeducenter.com/en/learnchinese/lessons.php

 

 

LearnChinese.com

A web site with 4,000 Chinese characters and instructions for writing each one can be found at http://www.learnchineseez.com/read-write/traditional/index.php

Also helpful are sample vocabulary words for each character.

Rocket Languages

A good web site to build vocabulary, with words and sentences written in Chinese characters and also with sound files can be found at

https://www.rocketlanguages.com/chinese/learn/

 

Typing in Chinese

It is possible to type in Mandarin Chinese. It is necessary to learn the Chinese characters and it helps to know the pinyin (spelling of the word in Romanized letters). There is a web site where typing syllables of the word in pinyin (using a standard keyboard) will bring up Chinese characters for that spelling, and you select the proper character to type in the field. For example, the word for security and safety is anquan in pinyin and in Chinese is 安全. The web site can be found at

http://www.typingchinese.com/main.htm