I will wait for you. How to say it in classical Chinese?

When people use the term "ancient Chinese", it is given three different meanings in different contexts: ancient Chinese, ancient Chinese and classical Chinese. Ancient Chinese first refers to "ancient Chinese".

Before the Opium War, all the languages used by the Han people can be called ancient Chinese. Oracle Bone Inscriptions, such ancient Chinese has a history of about 3,000 years since Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Just as everything is changing, so is language.

The characteristics of classical Chinese are: separation of speech and writing, concise writing. Compared with vernacular Chinese (including spoken and written language), the characteristics of classical Chinese are mainly manifested in grammar and vocabulary.

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The earliest known systematic writing form in China is Oracle Bone Inscriptions, also known as "Wen Qi", "Oracle Bone Inscriptions" or "tortoise shell and animal bones", which mainly refers to the characters carved by the royal family on tortoise shells or animal bones for divination in the late Shang Dynasty (14 ~1century).

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, no articles were invented to record words, but bamboo slips and silks were used to record words, but silks were expensive, bamboo slips were bulky and the number of words recorded was limited. In order to record more things on a roll of bamboo slips, it is necessary to delete unimportant words so as to carry the most information with the least words.

The early ancient prose was mostly used by the ruling class for divination, sacrifice and publication.

In the Western Han Dynasty, bamboo slips were replaced by paper. When "paper" is used on a large scale, the habit of using "official documents" among the ruling classes has been stereotyped, and the ability to use "classical Chinese" has evolved into a symbol of reading and literacy.

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