Origin of Chinese Characters

From:

http://chineseculture.about.com/library/weekly/aa101699.htm

"As we know, written Chinese is not an alphabetic language. We call Chinese characters as 'squared characters' and they are. They seems very complicated and hard to learn. But Chinese is the most used language in the world and certainly one of the most beautiful languages. It will be interesting to know its origin."

...

Click on the link and learn more from About.com