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How old are Chinese characters?
Chinese characters have a history of more than 6000 years.

The history of Chinese characters in China can be traced back to 6000 years ago. In the course of 6,000 years, the evolution of Chinese characters in China can be simply summarized into five parts, namely, sound, shape, image, number and reason. Chinese characters are one of the oldest characters in the world. In the principle of word formation, they range from ideographic characters and ideographic characters to phonography. With few exceptions, they are all one Chinese character and one syllable.

Chinese characters, also known as Chinese characters, Chinese characters and square characters, belong to morpheme syllables of ideographic characters. Chinese characters are written Chinese characters and borrowed from Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and other languages. They are widely used in the cultural circle of Chinese characters, and they are also the only highly developed characters that are still widely used in the world.

Origin theory of Chinese characters

According to legend, Cang Xie was a historian and creator of Chinese characters in the era of the Yellow Emperor. Huangdi was the leader of the tribal alliance in ancient Central Plains. With the society entering the stage of large-scale tribal alliances, the foreign affairs between alliances are becoming more and more frequent, and it is urgent to establish a set of communication symbols shared by all alliances, so the work of collecting and sorting out the common characters was handed over to historian Cang Xie.

"Cang Xie's Theory of Word Creation" was popular in the Warring States Period. "Lv Chunqiu JUNSHOU" said: "Cang Xie is a book and Hou Ji is a crop." In the Qin and Han Dynasties, this legend became more popular. Modern scholars believe that systematic writing tools cannot be completely created by one person. If Cang Xie really exists, he should be a text organizer or publisher.