What is the earliest Chinese character in China?

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the earliest known systematic writing in China and one of the four ancient Chinese characters in the world. It has pictographic, reference, comprehension, pictophonetic characters, phonetic notation, annotation, borrowing and other methods, which indicates that it has entered a mature stage. Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins is a record of divination of Yin people. Oracle Bone Inscriptions divination in ancient China has a long history, and it was the most popular in Yin Ruins. Almost everything in Shang Dynasty was divined by kings and nobles, and divination became an important part of social life in Shang Dynasty. The methods, procedures, grammar and examples of the tribute, preservation, renovation, drilling and divination of Oracle bones have formed a strict and systematic system. According to Oracle Bone Inscriptions's records, there were Zhen people in charge of divination and recording in Yin Dynasty, and there were hundreds of Zhen people in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Divination involves sacrifice, celestial phenomena, rite of passage, conquest, court affairs, and even hunting, illness, dreaming and having children of Shang kings. After Shang Dynasty, Oracle Bone Inscriptions's divination gradually lost its prominent position. The discovery of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins witnessed the loss of the divination system in Shang Dynasty, which provided important materials for studying the cultural history of China. At present, there are about 6.5438+0.5 million pieces of Oracle bones found in Yin Ruins, with more than 4,500 words. Judging from about 1500 characters identified in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Oracle Bone Inscriptions has already possessed the basic form of modern Chinese character structure. Although its calligraphy style has experienced the evolution of bronze inscription, seal script, official script and regular script, the characters and basic grammar with the characteristics of form, sound and meaning have been preserved and become the square characters still used by one fifth of the world's population today, which has had an important impact on the way of thinking and aesthetics of China people. Therefore, Oracle Bone Inscriptions has become the only one of the four ancient Chinese characters in the world. Chinese characters evolved from Oracle Bone Inscriptions have played an important role in spreading Chinese culture and promoting the formation and consolidation of China's unified country.