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The origin of bamboo books
The word "bamboo" first appeared in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty, and its ancient shape is like drooping bamboo leaves, originally meaning bamboo. Bamboo is an important material for making musical instruments in ancient times, so "bamboo" can refer to musical instruments and is also one of the eight tones of ancient musical instruments in China. It can also refer to bamboo slips, such as "Shu Shu", which is also used as a surname.

Bamboo played many roles in ancient China society. Before the invention of paper, bamboo slips were one of the important writing tools. The "bamboo" in the idiom "There are too many bamboos to count" means bamboo and bamboo slips. There is also a musical instrument, Xiao Di, which is also made of bamboo, so "bamboo" has the meaning of music and music. The appearance of bamboo is tall and elegant, and the modesty of similar people is often praised by the ancients, so bamboo is often compared with "gentleman", so there are such sayings as "Mei Zhu Lan Ju" (four gentlemen) and "Seven sages of bamboo forest".

Chinese characters:

Chinese characters, also known as Chinese and Chinese characters, are also called square characters, which are recorded symbols of Chinese and belong to morpheme syllables of ideographic characters. One of the oldest characters in the world has a history of more than 6000 years. In form, it gradually changes from graphics to strokes, pictographs to symbols, and complex to simple; In the principle of word formation, from ideographic, ideographic to phonological. Except for a few Chinese characters (such as Zi, Zi, Zi, Chi and Zi), they are all one Chinese character and one syllable. It should be noted that Japanese, Korean Peninsula, Vietnamese and other countries were deeply influenced by China culture in history, and even borrowed Chinese characters from their languages.

Modern Chinese characters refer to capitalized Chinese characters, including traditional characters and simplified characters. Modern Chinese characters have developed from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, seal script and seal script to official script, cursive script, regular script and running script. Chinese characters were invented and improved by Han ancestors, which is an indispensable link to maintain the Han dialect area. The earliest existing Chinese characters are Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Shang Dynasty and later inscriptions on bronze in about 1300 BC, which evolved into seal script in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and then to seal script and official script in the Qin Dynasty, until the official script prevailed in the Han and Wei Dynasties, and the official script was changed to regular script at the end of the Han Dynasty. Regular script prevailed in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it is still popular today.