Origin data of Chinese characters

Chinese characters mainly come from recordable pictographs, which are the basis of the formation and development of Chinese character system. Later, it evolved for thousands of years, including Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, seal script, official script, regular script, cursive script and running script. Regular script has been widely used so far, but it has not been completely finalized.

According to the ancient documents of China, the main branches and related records were invented in the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. In the later inheritance, the name of the dry branch was simplified to one word in the era of the Yellow Emperor.

There are comparative records in Shiji and Erya, but the versions of Shiji and Erya are different. Invention number: zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, twenty, thirty, _, hundred, thousand and ten thousand.

Legend has it that Cang Xie created Chinese characters. Cang Xie inspired, classified, collected, arranged and utilized the footprints of birds and animals recorded in Shuo Wen Jie Zi, which played an important role in the creation of Chinese characters and was known as the "sage of word creation".

Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the earliest known mature Chinese character, appeared in Shang Dynasty, and Zhong Dingwen appeared later. Although the number of words increased, it did not change much.

Due to the vast territory of the Zhou Dynasty and the long-term separatist regime, Chinese characters obviously showed abnormal characters among vassal States at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, especially during the Warring States Period. In order to consolidate the rule after the unification of Qin Dynasty, Qin Shihuang ordered Prime Ministers Lisi, CZ Zhao Gao and Taishi Hu Wujing to sort out the characters, and based on the big seal script of Qin State, made the small seal script as the national standard font.

Later, according to the popular fonts at that time, a simpler font official script was compiled, which was widely circulated throughout the country as a common word.

Extended data:

The earliest mature script discovered by China was once thought to be Oracle Bone Inscriptions. As far as the written materials in the Yin and Shang Dynasties are concerned, there are many kinds of written carriers. At that time, in addition to writing on simple books with a brush, other main means were carved on tortoise shells, pottery, jade and bronze.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions and bronze ritual vessels used in Yin Ruins in Shang Dynasty are the main carriers. Among the unearthed Oracle bones, there are 4,672 words, of which more than 1000 words have been known by scholars, but only a part of the Shang dynasty words have been preserved and named Oracle Bone Inscriptions, a unique discipline-Oracle bones.

Chinese characters are an important tool to carry culture. At present, there are a large number of ancient books written in Chinese characters. Different dialects and even languages use Chinese characters as their writing system.

In ancient Japan, Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, Ryukyu Islands and Lanfang Republic of Borneo, Chinese characters were once the only system of official documents in that country, so Chinese characters played an important role in the spread and sharing of civilization in history.

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