Chinese characters are one of the characters with the longest use time, the widest space and the largest number of people in the world. The creation and application of Chinese characters not only promoted the development of China culture, but also had a far-reaching impact on the development of world culture.
About 6000 years ago, there were more than 50 kinds of carved symbols in Banpo ruins and other places.
The Historical Origin of Chinese Characters
The evolution order of Chinese characters: hieroglyphics, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, seal script, official script, regular script and running script. These are the evolution order of ancient Chinese characters in China. At present, we determine that the earliest time in history is called hieroglyphics.
Chinese characters have a history of five thousand years. It evolved from souvenir symbols and souvenir pictures. As early as the late Neolithic painted pottery, pictures and symbols appeared, which is the predecessor of Chinese characters.
The earliest mature Chinese characters that can be seen now are Chinese characters carved on animal bones and tortoise shells in BC14th century (Shang Dynasty). They are called Oracle Bone Inscriptions. More than 4600 words have been used, and pictophonetic characters account for a certain proportion, which has become a mature text.
Most bronzes from Shang Dynasty to Western Zhou Dynasty are engraved with inscriptions (also known as inscriptions), and their fonts are called Da Zhuan. There are many inscriptions on bronzes in the Western Zhou Dynasty, including 284 inscriptions on the historical wall of our library and Shi Ding inscriptions 190. Mao's inscription reached 49 1 word. All these reflect the development level of writing at that time.