ANCIENT TRUTHS

CHINESE SYMBOLS

"The ideograph had a circle representing the universe with streams of water in the centre signifying that the whole earth was covered with water. At the bottom of the circle were two slanting lines,which represented the number eight, which was made up of a row of four males and a row of four females. They were Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives. The two outstretched hands at the top of the circle represented faith on the part of Noah and his family".('JKH Tan)

Through several simplifications and modifications this is the word in Chinese script for flood - 'Hung'-

David Pawson in his excellent book Unlocking The Bible points out that after the Tower of Babel among the groups scattered was one who “climbed over the mountains to the east and eventually settled when they reached the sea. They became the great nation of China. Chinese culture goes right back to that day. They left the area of Babel before the Cuneiform alphabet replaced the picture language of ancient Egypt. All languages were pictorial right up to the time of Babel. The language they took to China they put down in picture form. The amazing thing is that it is possible to reconstruct the story from Genesis 1-11 by looking at the symbols which the Chinese use to describe different words. When these people first arrived in China, therefore, they believed in one God, the maker of heaven and earth. It was only after Confucius and Buddha that they got involved in idolatry. The Chinese language is an independent confirmation from outside the Bible that the events recorded in Genesis happened and were carried in the memories people scattered at Babel who then settled in China .”
Jeffrey K H Tan who has written a most informative book called Chinese Symbols-The Mystery Unlocked provides further background to the ancient symbols… “The founding of Chinese words is rather unique as ancient historical events helped to determine the nature of its writing, commonly known as ‘character-writing’. To fully grasp the formation of Chinese language one needs to understand the ancient earthly story. The early Chinese writers skilfully inscribed universal historical events in their little picture-drawing characters. As the Chinese language is more than 5,500 years old, this pictograph language faithfully unveils the past events, as symbols and pictures do not tell lies. Instead they simply convey the intention of the ancient writers and the impression of their souls”.

The examples on this page of Chinese writing is taken from Jeffrey Tans book.