? Where did you find the earliest Chinese characters?
The earliest Chinese characters we found were in Shang Dynasty. The last monarch of Shang Dynasty was Zhou Wang, and the capital of Zhou Wang was Chao Ge, which is now Anyang. The earliest Chinese characters were unearthed there. ?
Who found Oracle Bone Inscriptions?
It was first discovered by villagers in Xiaotunyang Village, Anyang, Henan Province. At that time, they didn't know that it was a relic left over from ancient times. It is only used as a medicinal material to treat all diseases, wasting many extremely precious cultural relics. Later, in the 25th year of Guangxu reign (1899), Wang Yu, an official and epigraphist in the late Qing Dynasty, discovered Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Anyang, Henan. He found it in a drugstore. Wang, who is proficient in medical skills, bought a kind of medicinal material called keel when he took medicine in the Henian Hall, studied the graphics and characters on it, and bought it in large quantities through Shandong antique dealer Fan. Wang first discovered Oracle Bone Inscriptions and dated it to Shang Dynasty.
? How were Chinese characters invented?
There are six forms of Chinese characters: pictograph, signifier, pictophonetic character, knowing, transliteration and borrowing, among which pictograph, signifier, knowing and pictophonetic character are the main forms of Chinese characters, while transliteration and borrowing are the ways of using Chinese characters. This is the so-called six books of Chinese characters. ?
Pictograph: Pictograph is to draw a physical object like a painting. The most representative hieroglyphs are the sun and the moon. This is a picture of the years and months in Oracle Bone Inscriptions.
Finger-pointing: Finger-pointing (also called word for doing things) is an abstract word-making method, that is, when it is not available or convenient to draw with specific images, it is represented by abstract symbols. Most indicators add and subtract strokes or symbols on the basis of hieroglyphics. Below is a picture of a finger.
Pictophonetic characters: Pictophonetic characters refer to a word formation method of Chinese characters, which is formed on the basis of pictographic characters, signifier characters and knowing characters. They are composed of two words, namely, the signifier (phonetic symbol) representing the meaning category and the phonetic symbol (phonetic symbol) representing the sound category. Pictophonetic characters are the most effective way of word formation. Generally, ideographic characters or signifiers are used as symbols, while phonetic symbols can be used as pictographs, signifiers and cognitive characters. Below is a picture of pictophonetic characters.
Understanding character: Understanding character refers to a new Chinese character which is composed of two or more unique Chinese characters according to their respective meanings. This word formation is called knowing, which belongs to one of the six books. Chinese characters made by literacy method are literacy. The following is a picture of the word recognition.
These are word-making methods. We will talk about them later. Goodbye.