Chinese writing was intimately bound up with the everyday life of the common people as well. Even if they were illiterate, they could hardly escape its pervasive influence on their whole way of thinking.
不過，漢字更與一般中國人的日常生活維持密切關聯，即使對一個文盲來說，實際上他一生的生活意識形態，仍脫不了漢字的影響。