This is a book of knowledge and stories of Chinese characters. Each article deals with one character, and introduces its origin, allusion and a vivid story. The book has the merits in its coverage of knowledge scope, which extensively quotes expositions of previous scholars and facts from previous books, and discerns the development of characters from contemporary academic results. It also relates the problems of language teaching in schools and colleges, and tries to solve them by various analysis and comprehension. The studies of characters are, in this way, combined with the dissemination of cultural knowledge.