What are the stages of the development of Chinese characters?

The evolution of Chinese characters can be simply summarized into five stages: sound, shape, image, number and reason.

In the late primitive society, the symbols carved on various utensils by Han ancestors gradually evolved into Chinese characters.

In the long-term evolution process, Chinese characters have developed from Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang and Zhou Dynasties to bronze inscriptions in the Spring and Autumn and Western Zhou Dynasties, to the big seal script used in the early Qin Dynasty, to the small seal script used by Qin Shihuang to unify the national characters, and to the official script in Han Dynasty and the regular script that prevailed after Wei and Jin Dynasties, and have been used to this day. The mainstream of font evolution in China.