I know that the earliest existing Chinese character is Oracle Bone Inscriptions more than 4,000 years ago. Do you know anything about Oracle Bone Inscriptions?

1. Oracle Bone Inscriptions, also known as Wen Qi, tortoise shell or tortoise shell bone, is a very important ancient Chinese character material. In Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the word "Hua" has a very lofty position. In a total of * * * 65,438+million Oracle bones, there are more than 4,000 different characters and figures, of which about 2,500 characters have been recognized.

There are about 27% pictophonetic characters in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which shows that Oracle Bone Inscriptions is a fairly mature writing system. According to Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the Shang Dynasty, Chinese characters at that time had developed into a writing system that could completely record Chinese. In the discovered Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Yin Ruins, the number of words has reached about 4000. There are a lot of signifiers, pictographs, knowing characters, and many pictographs. These words are similar to ours.

The characters used today are very different in appearance. But from the point of word formation, they are basically the same.

Secondly, international linguists recognized that the language recorded by Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty belongs to ancient Chinese, not the ancient or primitive language of other languages. Gao Benhan, a Swedish sinologist, made a detailed study of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the book The Essence and History of Chinese. According to the fact that "buy", "buckle" and "library" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions are homonyms, he proved that Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Dynasty was an early form of Sino-Tibetan language family, not an early form of other languages.

Experts found that the inscriptions on the Oracle bones of Peiligang culture in Henan province 8000 years ago are strikingly similar to those of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins 45000 years later. First, the writing tools are the same, and they all use sharp tools to engrave symbols on tortoise shells and bones; Second, it has the same function. In Shang Dynasty, Oracle Bone Inscriptions was used to record divination contents, and Jia Hu's lettering was also related to divination. Third, the principle of word formation is the same. Jia Hu's inscription is a symbol of rationality, and Oracle Bone Inscriptions has many rational words. Experts believe that "the discovery of Oracle bone inscriptions provides reliable evidence for exploring the historical origin of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty". Like later Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions and modern Chinese characters, Jia Hu's inscription has three structural levels in writing characteristics, while Jia Hu's inscription is the same as that of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty, because it is also engraved on hard Oracle bones and other things, with vigorous strokes and sharp bends.

Judging from the number and structure of fonts, Oracle Bone Inscriptions has developed into a more rigorous and systematic writing. The "six-character" principle of Chinese characters is reflected in Oracle Bone Inscriptions.