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The origin 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. After the divination came true, these Oracle bones engraved with Oracle Bone Inscriptions became official files and were preserved.

Ancient legends about the origin of Chinese characters;

Chinese characters have unique shapes and usages, and there are different speculations about their origins in past dynasties. According to legend, there was no good recording method in ancient times, which could not be recorded and disseminated under complicated and changeable circumstances, which seriously affected agricultural production and mutual communication, so tribal leaders invented their own "words" one after another.

The ancients had rich imagination and combined the origin of Chinese characters with fairy tales. Xu Shen in the Eastern Han Dynasty mentioned three origins of the original Chinese characters in the Preface of Shuowen Jiezi. The ancients loved the kings of the Xi family. They looked up at the sky, the earth, birds and animals and the earth, and approached all the corpses.

I took everything far away, so I started the gossip about the image of Yi Guaxian. Shennong, on the other hand, binds the rope to govern, unifies its affairs, has a complicated business and pretends to be false. Cang Xie, a historian of the Yellow Emperor, saw the traces of the hoofs of birds and animals. He knew that this division might be different, so he first made a book contract.