The reason of ancient man-made horse characters and its hope for Chinese characters

The source of horse characters mainly comes from hieroglyphics. The girls in Oracle Bone Inscriptions have a head and a tail, a neck and a body, and four hooves, much like horses. The seal script of the Qin Dynasty still retains this image.

Bronze inscriptions appeared one after another in the Zhou Dynasty. Compared with Oracle Bone Inscriptions's figure, the strokes are reduced, but the characteristics of big eyes, trimmed tail and long mane are basically retained, and the meaning of the shape will be known. In the Qi script of the Warring States period, the horse's head was horse-shaped, or the horse's head was omitted and replaced with heavy text or provincial characters.

Horses used to be the main driving force of ancient agricultural production, transportation and military activities. China was one of the first countries to domesticate horses. From the relics of Dawenkou culture period and Yangshao culture period in Shandong and Jiangsu in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, it is proved that several wild horse breeds have been domesticated as domestic animals around 6000 years.