The Chinese Character Recognition and its Editional Mode

There are two periods in the cognitive process of chinese character. The first period is to integrate the shape information of chinese character; The second period is to combine the chinese character's shape with its sound,its meaning and its usage. The factors that affect the recognition of chinese character come from the shape and the structure of chinese character, the frequency of the character and its editional mode . To communicate by chinese characters on the printed media shoud obey the optimization principle according to the feature of mass communication, the content of the media, the need of the readers.