A brief introduction to the story of Cang Jie's word-making.

On one occasion, the armies of the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou fought, and the two sides were inextricably linked. The Yellow Emperor was going to change his strategy and told Cang Xie to bring a battle map. When Cang Xie touched it, the battle map he carried with him had been lost. The yellow emperor was angry and anxious, so he had to retire temporarily.

The Yellow Emperor said to Cang Xie, "You are the smartest minister around me. How did you lose the battle map in "Do or die"? " ? What a big mistake this is! Cang Xie replied, "Huangdi, there are many people and many things now, so we should always fight. It is really difficult to take notes with knotted ropes and carved wood as symbols. If this continues, there will be more troubles in the future. " The Yellow Emperor asked, "What should I do? Cang Xie said, "There is only one kind of picture. When people look at it, they can understand its meaning. Use this picture to show what you want to say, and people will do what you want. "The Yellow Emperor thought what he said was very reasonable, so he said," Well, don't fight with the army in the future, just stay and draw pictures and make words for us! " "

This stumped Cang Xie. How to make pictures and words? He meditated all day. Half a year has passed, and it is already winter. Cang Xie hasn't found a way to make Chinese characters. One night, there was a heavy snow. Cang Xie got up early in the morning and went hunting in the mountains. I see all the mountains and plains are covered with snow, and all the mountains and trees are covered with snow. Cang Xie turned a mountain and didn't see a prey. Just about to go back down the mountain, suddenly two pheasants jumped out of the Woods and foraged in the snow. After the pheasant passed by, it left two long lines of paw prints on the snow. Then, two fawns also ran out of the Woods and found that people ran away, leaving fawn footprints in the snow. Cang Xie was so absorbed that he completely forgot to hunt. He compared the paw prints of pheasants and deer and found that they were different in shape. So he thought, printing chicken feet is called chicken, and printing deer feet is called deer. Anything in the world, as long as its hieroglyphs are drawn, becomes a word! Thought of here, Cang Xie be elated, after returning, he reported his thoughts to the Yellow Emperor. After hearing this, the Yellow Emperor smiled and said, "I told you, you are a smart man, and it really happens. All right! You can make words according to the pictographs of the mountains, rivers, sun, moon, birds and animals in the world, and I will promulgate the world. " From then on, Cang Xie looked up at the sun, the moon and the stars every day, looked down at the birds, animals and mountains, and created hieroglyphics. Soon, people, hands, sun, moon, stars, cows, sheep, horses, chickens and dogs were all created. But there are more and more hieroglyphs, where to write them? Writing on the stone tip is too heavy to carry, writing on the board is too heavy, and writing on the hide is not appropriate, which once again tripped Cang Xie. One day, a man caught a chinemys reevesii by the river and asked Cang Xie to write Chinese characters for it. Cang Xie carefully looked at the turtle and found that Fang Gezi was neatly arranged on its back, so he made a word "turtle" according to its hieroglyphics. Then he carved the words Fang Gezi on the turtle's back. The tortoise felt pain because of the words on his back, so he climbed into the river unprepared. Three years later, this turtle with words on its back was caught in another place. People told Cang Xie that the words carved on the turtle's back had not been washed away by water, but had grown up and the handwriting was more obvious. ...

From then on, Cang Xie ordered people to catch turtles and take them away. He carved all the hieroglyphics he created on the Fang Gezi of the tortoise shell, and then strung them together with ropes to give them to the Yellow Emperor. The Yellow Emperor was very happy to see it and ordered people to collect it well, which made great contributions to Cang Xie. Legend has it that since then, our Chinese nation has had the earliest hieroglyphs and Oracle Bone Inscriptions.