Hieroglyphics, cuneiform, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Greek alphabet, which belongs to China? What is its important position?

Hieroglyphs come from ancient Egypt.

Cuneiform comes from ancient Babylon.

The Greek alphabet is Greek.

Egyptian hieroglyphs, Sumerian cuneiform characters in the two river basins, Phoenician letters, Oracle Bone Inscriptions in China.

1.( 1) hieroglyphics: This kind of writing is one of the oldest in the world. Because it is a kind of writing that uses symbols to describe the image of objective objects, that is, the so-called "painting into its objects", we are used to calling it hieroglyphics.

(2) Cuneiform writing: Sumerians invented writing almost at the same time as Egyptians. They used sharpened reeds as pens, carved words on the clay blank, and then dried the clay blank to become clay tablets. This kind of writing carved on the clay tablet is called "cuneiform writing" because of its sharp wedge shape. Because of its wide use, people call it "Latin in the ancient East".

(3) Phoenician alphabet: The hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt never developed into letters, but after many times of evolution, their shapes gradually simplified and became letters. Its 24 monosyllabic symbols are similar to letters. In 2000 BC, the Phoenicians on the east coast of the Mediterranean created 22 pinyin letters under the influence of Egyptian characters and West Asian characters. The ancient Greeks created the Greek alphabet on the basis of the Phoenician alphabet. On the basis of the Greek alphabet, the Latin alphabet of the Latin people in Rome and its surrounding areas was formed. Latin letters are the most common letters in the world.

2.( 1) The hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt are the basis of pinyin, which has an influence on the development of world culture.

(2) The cuneiform characters in the two river basins have made great contributions to the people of all ethnic groups in West Asia and to human civilization.

(3) The influence of Phoenician characters on pinyin characters: The greatest contribution of ancient Phoenicians to human culture was to create the first set of pinyin letters in the world. On the basis of learning the Phoenician alphabet, the Greeks created a more complete Greek alphabet, from which later Latin developed. Greek letters and Latin letters are isomorphic, forming the basis of modern European letters.

3. Oracle Bone Inscriptions: the name of an ancient script in China, and the oldest existing script in China. Also known as Wen Qi, tortoise shell script or tortoise shell animal bone script. Yin people used tortoise shells and animal bones for divination. After divination, the time of divination, the name of the diviner and the things divined are engraved on the side of divination with a knife, and some even engrave the good and bad luck that will come true in a few days. Scholars call this kind of record Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and this kind of writing is Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Oracle Bone Inscriptions was found in Xiaotun Village, Anyang, Henan Province, and it is a relic of Shang King Pan Geng who moved to Yin and died in China. Later, it was also unearthed in the Shang Dynasty sites in Zhengzhou and Luoyang, and Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the Western Zhou Dynasty was also found in the sites in Changping, Beijing and Joo Won?, Shaanxi.