Eight mysterious characters in ancient Chinese characters

1. The Book of Cang Xie: This book has always been suspected by calligraphers to be written by Liu Xin, a Confucian in the Han Dynasty. Herry Liu, a scholar, believes that this book should be the sacrificial situation of Yi ancestors recorded in ancient Yi literature after years of research.

Xia Yushu: According to relevant experts' research, the book contains 12 words, including 5 words in ancient Yi language and 7 words in Han Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

Third, Hongyan Tianshu: also known as Hongyan Tianshu. On the cliff of Shajiashan in Guanling Buyi and Miao Autonomous County, Guizhou Province, there is a huge pale red stone screen, which is 100 m long and about 30 m high. There are dozens of iron-gray symbols on it. Big like a bucket, small like a rising one. If printed as an official seal, it is simple and magnificent, and is called "Hongyan Tianshu" by scholars at home and abroad.

Four, Bashu symbols: On the artifacts unearthed in Sichuan during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, 150 different symbols were found, collectively called "Bashu symbols". Chinese scholar Qian believes that these symbols may be a phonetic symbol more than 2400 years ago, which is strikingly similar to the phonetic symbol of Yi people.

Dongba script: This is an original hieroglyph created by the ancestors of Naxi nationality in Yunnan more than 1000 years ago, and it is called "living hieroglyph". Naxi people describe it on wood and stones, and call it "Senji Land Machine" (meaning traces of wood and stones).

6. Wanzi Monument: The original text was deposited in Hengshan Mountain, and it is now located in the "Wanzi Monument" of Shaoxing Temple. The inscription seems to be non-seal script, and the calligraphy is also very strange. Some scholars think it is a monument to Dayu's water control.

Seven, Yelang Tianshu: newly discovered in Hezhang Yi area of Guizhou Province. What experts call "Yelang Tianshu" has a total of 4,480 words. It is written with a brush and smoke ink, like a grass seal, and the strokes are winding. Fonts vary in thickness, scattered and natural.

Eight, Xianju Tadpole: On a steep wall with a height of 128 meters in Danzhu Township, Xianju County, Zhejiang Province, there are artificially carved sun patterns, insect patterns and tadpole patterns. Legend is a record left by Dayu's flood control, and experts think tadpoles are hieroglyphics.

The earliest history of ancient writing in China;

Oracle Bone Inscriptions refers to the symbols carved on animal bones-hieroglyphics or graphic characters, which are found in Shandong (Chifeng, Guanzhong and other places) and are the earliest recognizable characters in China.

In 2005, Professor Fengjun Liu, a famous archaeologist and director of the Institute of Fine Arts and Archaeology of Shandong University, discovered and named it, which was originally called "Dongyi characters" and later called "bone carving", and determined that the carving tools were sharp gems such as agate, which was formed between 4600 and 3300 years ago and was a popular character in Longshan culture period.

Since the end of 20 10, Ding Zaixian, a well-known Dongyi cultural scholar and full-time vice president of Shandong Tourism Industry Association, has successfully deciphered Oracle Bone Inscriptions systematically, and comprehensively discussed the inheritance relationship with Oracle Bone Inscriptions and modern Chinese characters from the aspects of the origin and structure of the characters, proving that righteousness is the source of Chinese characters.

The characteristic of early Oracle Bone Inscriptions is that there are few words on bone fragments, and it is difficult to have bone fragments with more than 10. The shapes of words are very patterned, and some words are very complicated, close to painting. If divided according to the six books of writing, only signifiers and pictographs should be in the initial period of writing.

The late Oracle Bone Inscriptions is about 3300-3700 years ago, which is the Yueshi culture period and the early and middle period of Shang Dynasty. Later, the number of Oracle Bone Inscriptions gradually increased, with more than a dozen words, 50-60 words on a bone, forming articles. There may be a word of understanding in this period.

The pictographic character of fonts gradually weakened, while the symbolic character increased, similar to that of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which proved that later Oracle Bone Inscriptions had developed into a more mature script. The lower limit of its service life is directly related to Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

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