From the beginning, human characters are hieroglyphics, which are vivid communication and records. Hieroglyphs are the primary stage of the development of human characters. However, many ancient national characters were buried and did not go beyond this stage. To be exact, writing is a kind of "writing" based on painting and sculpture, which began to be cast when it was marked. The oldest ancient scientists confirmed that pictures and characters appeared in Mesopotamia Plain, one of the cradles of human civilization in 3500 BC, and subtitles appeared when Sumerians established slavery. Later, ancient Egypt also used this kind of writing, called hieroglyphics.

Hieroglyphs are mainly written in the image of "things". With the gradual expansion of human social activities and frequent economic and military activities, this kind of pictures and words can no longer fully express what human beings want to express. At this time, a new type of picture writing that can express complex concepts and meanings came into being-cuneiform writing. When the graphic symbols are simplified enough to form a specific correspondence with the language, the original text is formed. In Introduction to Ancient Philology, Tang Lan divided ancient Chinese characters into four systems. Yin Shang, Western Zhou Dynasty, Six Kingdoms, Qin Dynasty.

From Oracle Bone Inscriptions to Xiao Zhuan, Chinese characters changed from the way of describing images in details to the direction of simplifying descriptions, and the form gradually separated from the concrete images of things. Chinese characters in this period are also called ancient Chinese characters. Writing is actually a medium, and people communicate through conventional visible symbols. It is the character symbol system of people's recording language. The history of human writing runs through the whole history of visual connection from early pictures to words.

The above is Bian Xiao's detailed explanation of the problem. I hope it will help you. You can leave me a message in the comments section if you have any questions. If there is anything wrong, you can also interact with me more. If you like the author, you can also follow me. Your praise is the greatest help to me. Thank you.