The origin of Chinese characters is 30 characters.

Before Chinese characters appeared, people used various methods to remember, exchange ideas and transmit information. The most primitive methods are: knotting banknotes and engraving banknotes.

The generation of characters is very natural. Tens of thousands of years ago, Paleolithic people had good paintings. Most of these paintings are animals and portraits, which are the predecessors of characters. However, only after language is widely used can pictures play the role of words and be transformed into words.

For example, if you draw an elephant, you will call it "elephant" when you see it. Over time, people are used to using a picture similar to "elephant", which is between pictures and words.

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It is well documented that China script, Chinese characters, came into being in the late Shang Dynasty, about14th century BC, when a preliminary stereotyped script, namely Oracle Bone Inscriptions, was formed.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is written or engraved on tortoise shells or animal bones, which is mainly used for divination and taking notes. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is both pictographic and phonetic, because the characters at this time are mostly evolved from pictures, so its pictographic degree is relatively high, because it is carved on animal bones, so the strokes are relatively thin and there are more straight strokes.