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Oracle Bone Inscriptions evolution process of foot

Let's look at the evolution of Chinese characters! The evolution of Du Chinese characters has gone through thousands of years, including Tian Guwen, Yan Shu, Li Shu, Kai Shu, cursive script and running script. Generally speaking, the evolution of Chinese characters is a process of gradually standardizing and stabilizing Chinese fonts.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions mainly refers to Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins, which was carved (or written) on tortoise shells and animal bones by the royal family for divination in the late Shang Dynasty. Most of its contents are "Oracle Bone Inscriptions" and a few are "notes". The method of "pictographic, knowing, pictophonetic, referring to things, transferring notes and borrowing words" has been developed, which shows the unique charm of China characters. Compared with the brush lines found in Oracle Bone Inscriptions today, the brush lines are neat, thin, straight and thick, with many folds of strokes and more balanced and symmetrical characters. Although influenced by the size and shape of bone fragments, it still shows the artistic characteristics of carving skills and characters, showing a quaint and romantic taste.