Chinese characters were invented and improved by the ancestors of the Chinese nation in ancient times. At present, the exact history can be traced back to ancient stone inscriptions and Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Zhang Wen and Jin Wen of Shang Dynasty about 1300 BC. Then it went to seal script in Qin dynasty, developed into official script in Han dynasty, and became the standard of handwritten font used in Tang dynasty today-block letters.

Chinese characters refer to characters ranging from stone carvings, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Da Zhuan, inscriptions on bronze, calligraphy and Xiao Zhuan to official script, cursive script, regular script and running script. In a narrow sense, it refers to Chinese characters with block letters as the standard writing method, which is also a modern Chinese character widely used today.

Chinese characters with extended information were invented and improved by the ancestors of the Chinese nation in ancient times. At present, the exact history can be traced back to ancient stone inscriptions and Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Zhang Wen and Jin Wen of Shang Dynasty about 1300 BC. Then it went to seal script in Qin dynasty, developed into official script in Han dynasty, and became the standard of handwritten font used in Tang dynasty today-block letters.

Chinese characters have been used for the longest time in a row so far, and they are the only ones in all kinds of ghost writing systems in ancient times. Chinese characters have always been the main official characters of China's dynasties.

Chinese characters have developed to a highly complete level in ancient times. They are not only used in China, but also used as the only international communication language in East Asia for a long time. Before the 20th century, they were the official written and standardized characters of Japan, Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, Ryukyu and other countries, and all East Asian countries created their own Chinese characters to some extent.

In the non-Chinese character system, some Japanese characters have been simplified into new Japanese fonts by themselves, and South Korea has also formulated an official standard for the use of Korean characters. In Vietnam, Korea, Mongolia and other countries that have used Chinese characters in history, Chinese characters no longer have the status of official norms.

Chinese characters are one of the oldest characters in the world, with a history of at least several thousand years. The earliest existing primitive characters are ancient stone inscriptions, and the recognizable mature Chinese character system is Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. Chinese characters gradually change from graphics to strokes, from pictographs to symbols, and from complexity to simplicity. In the principle of word formation, from ideographic, ideographic to phonological. With few exceptions, they are all one Chinese character and one syllable.

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