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Chinese characters are one of the characters with the longest use time, the widest use space and the largest number of users 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, in Banpo ruins and other places, more than 50 kinds of carving symbols have appeared.

The Origin and Evolution of Chinese Characters

They are neat and standardized, with the characteristics of simplified Chinese characters, which scholars think may be the germination of Chinese characters. The Chinese character formation system is the Shang dynasty in BC 16. Archaeology confirmed that in the early Shang Dynasty, Chinese civilization had developed to a fairly high level, and one of its main features was the appearance of Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is an ancient writing carved on tortoise shells and animal bones.

In Shang Dynasty, the king had to do divination before doing anything, and Oracle Bone Inscriptions was the tool of divination. Oracle Bone Inscriptions should be treated before use. Remove the flesh and blood from the Oracle bones first, and then cut and smooth them. Then, use a knife to drill a notch on the inside of the nail or the back of the animal bone. The arrangement of these gaps is orderly.

A fortune teller or wizard engraves his name, the date of divination and the questions to be asked on the Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and then burns the hole in the Oracle Bone Inscriptions with a torch. The cracks that appear when these depressions are heated are called "signs". The wizard analyzes the trend of these cracks, obtains the result of divination, and engraves the divination on the Oracle bone.

Detailed introduction

The Chinese nation is a great nation, and Chinese civilization is also the most unique civilization. Of all the countries in the world, only our China culture has been passed down without interruption, and only our "Chinese character" is the only writing form in the world that has evolved without interruption in ancient times.

From about14th century BC, "Oracle Bone Inscriptions" in the late Shang Dynasty was regarded as the first form of "Chinese characters", and today, various fonts have been born one after another. In Chinese characters, all kinds of fonts formed in different historical periods have their own distinctive artistic characteristics.

In a broad sense, ancient Chinese includes the characters before Xiao Zhuan, and also includes Da Zhuan. In a narrow sense, it refers to the characters before Dazhuan in the history of China characters. Here, the narrow concept of ancient prose is adopted. Ancient prose includes Oracle Bone Inscriptions and inscriptions on bronze; Among them, the former is considered as the earliest stereotyped writing in China.