Chinese civilization has a record of 5000 years. In fact, the only way to record the emergence of civilization is writing. The earliest writing in China was recorded on the bones of animals, so it was also called Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Writing is one of the important symbols of civilization. Judging from the unearthed cultural relics in China, Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the earliest written language in China, with a history of more than 3,000 years.

Through in-depth excavation and discovery in archaeology in recent years, the earliest unearthed materials related to Chinese character culture were found in Jiahu site in Wuyang, Henan Province. 17 inscriptions were found in this site more than 500 years before Oracle Bone Inscriptions's death, but the world does not recognize them as words, because no one knows whether these symbols are words or some inscriptions.

According to the mainstream view of the West, China's earliest writing is Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Bones engraved with a large number of symbols have been found in many sites in China, so these bones are also called Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Materials related to Chinese characters have also been found in the sites excavated in the late primitive society and historical society. Pottery, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, jade and stone tools all have specific symbols.

Scholars in China believe that inscriptions on stone tools and symbols on Oracle Bone Inscriptions belong to characters, because both inscriptions and symbols conform to the characteristics of modern calligraphy, such as horizontal, vertical and folding strokes.

The characters in China are different from those in the West. Even now, there are many pictographs in China, such as mountain, sun, water and mouth, which are all transformed from symbols. However, in the west, it is spelled with letters. Because of the different development process, the west thinks that these engravings are just random symbols.

Because in the eyes of some archaeologists and historians in China, China's writing and ancient civilization are far beyond the civilization of the two river basins.