China's Chinese characters are profound and have a long history. How did they evolve?

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.

Archaeologists in China have published a series of unearthed materials about the origin of characters earlier than Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins. Jia Hu's woodcut has a history of about 7762 years (128) after the physical determination of carbon 14. Seven thousand years ago, Shuangdun lettering, six thousand years ago, Banpo pottery lettering, more than five thousand years ago, Qingdun site lettering, Dawenkou pottery statue symbol, Zhu Wen of Taosi site in Yao and Shun era.

The early inscriptions and Oracle Bone Inscriptions are rich in writing systems, while the later ones belong to the initial mature stage. These archaeological discoveries may be important clues to the origin of Chinese characters, or they may be different origins of the development of various characters.

About 6000 years ago, there were more than 50 kinds of carved symbols on the outer wall of pottery in Yangshao cultural sites such as Banpo site. They are well-planned, regular and characterized by simplified Chinese characters, which may be the seeds of Chinese characters.

In the early 1980s, more complete characters were found on the pottery unearthed from the Xia cultural site in Dengfeng, Henan. At that time, it was confirmed by scholars that up to now, China has the earliest written language with an exact date.

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Chinese characters are one of the oldest characters in the world, with a history of at least several thousand years. The earliest existing primitive characters are descriptive pictures and prints, and the recognizable mature Chinese character system is Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. Chinese characters gradually change from graphics to strokes, from pictographs to symbols, and from complexity to simplicity. In the principle of word formation, from ideographic, ideographic to phonological. With few exceptions, they are all one Chinese character and one syllable.

Chinese characters are ideographic characters, and a Chinese character usually represents a word or a morpheme in Chinese, which forms the characteristics of unity of sound, form and meaning. Chinese characters are square characters composed of strokes, so they are also called square characters.

Such as "che", "Shang" and "Ming", directly express the meaning of language in the form of words; "Question" can refer to both meaning and sound, "door" refers to sound, and "mouth" refers to meaning.

In the course of thousands of years, Chinese characters have evolved from the most primitive stone inscriptions into "seven-style Chinese characters", namely: Oracle Bone Inscriptions, inscriptions on bronze, seal script, official script, cursive script, regular script and running script.

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