When did people in China write Chinese characters on bamboo tubes, when did they invent Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and when did it become the characters we use now? What a hurry!

Our country has a written history, starting from the Shang Dynasty, because there was Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the Shang Dynasty.

Bamboo slips are written materials from Warring States to Wei and Jin Dynasties.

After the founding of New China, the movement of simplifying Chinese characters was carried out, and at the same time, the movement of standardizing Chinese characters was attached great importance, which was mainly manifested in: ① cleaning up and abolishing variant characters; (2) Unify and standardize the font, strokes and stroke order of Chinese characters; ③ Unify and standardize the pronunciation of Chinese characters. For the history of this aspect, readers can refer to the book "Current Standardization of Chinese Characters" written by Mr. Gao Gengsheng.

Chinese characters have changed for more than 6000 years, and the evolution process is as follows:

Oracle Bone Inscriptions → Jinwen → Dazhuan → Xiaozhuan → Lishu → Regular script → Running script.

(Yin Shang) (Zhou) (Qin) (Han) (Wei Jin) cursive script

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The evolution of Chinese characters,

It can be simply summarized as five stages:

Sound, shape, image, number and reason.