Abstract: When discerning ancient characters, our predecessors often stressed the diachronic research of single charaters, and rarely paid attention to the synchronic interpretation of the charater signs.This paper tries to find out a new approach to the exegetical studies of ancient texts and ancient civilization through a horizontal comparison of ancient characters and by exposition of such elementary drawing kno wledge as projection, polyview, static mark and dynamic mark used in the creation of charaters by our forefathers.

Key words: ancient characters, elementary drawing knowledge, projection, polyview, static mark, dynamic mark