What fonts were used in pre-Qin literature?

All pre-Qin literature used scripts developed from the Western Zhou gold script.

Roughly like this: merchants used oracle bone inscriptions - the Zhou people followed (let's call the Zhou's Big Seal Script) - the feudal vassal states at the beginning of the Zhou also used the official script Big Seal Script - to the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States period, due to the separation of the states for hundreds of years, there were some changes in the font type - the The Spring and Autumn and Warring States due to the separation of the countries have hundreds of years the font has some changes - Qin Shihuang united the country and then slightly reorganized to reunite

Tadpole text

In the Xianju County, Zhejiang Province, the territory of the Tamchu Township, there is a thousand peaks, 10,000 ravines of the lofty Weiqiang Mountain. Here the ditches and valleys are intertwined, ancient trees, bamboo forests, flowing water, picturesque in all seasons, is a very important scenic route in the provincial scenic area. There is an unfathomable humanistic landscape: on a thousand-foot cliff called Tadpole Cliff, it is covered with strange patterns and symbols such as sun, moon, insects and fish engraved by hand, which is the famous Tadpole Script that is said to have been engraved by Dayu. Why did the ancients engrave the text on a thousand-foot wall? What is the meaning of these graphic symbols? For thousands of years. There are countless scholars and scholars to explore.

According to the "Wanli Zhi" and "Guangxu Zhi": the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Yi Xi years, a court officer surnamed Zhou had "made a flying ladder to copy the wax, but do not know the meaning". Later, the county magistrate Ruan Lu and the county magistrate Chen Xiang of the Northern Song Dynasty also "brought a crowd to watch", but finally, because of the high cliffs and dangerous roads, "the clouds and the rain are obscure". "The clouds and rain are obscure and closed", no results, and returned in joy. Chen Xiang also left to sigh: "Last year, I had a look at the Weiqiang map, the cloud has the immortal ancient seal script. There is no way to get to the dry foot rock. I do not know how the tadpole word ......"

In 1985, Taizhou area cultural relics census acceptance group with 28 a 200 mm zoom camera on the cliff face long-distance shooting enlargement, point by point decomposition, seems to see traces. 1994 May 26, by the "Anzhou Shadow Art Club", the "Anzhou Shadow Art Club", the "Anzhou Shadow Art Club", the "Anzhou Shadow Art Club". "Anzhou shadow art society" organized by the expedition team hired three generations to pick rare medicinal herbs wild dendrobium for a living, with many years of experience in climbing the cliffs of the mountain people Pan Yulong from the top of the cliffs down the suspension, less than a meter in the high cliff face near the photographs taken to many physical photos. According to Pan Yulong narrative and from the photographs taken to see, tadpole cliff face flat as cutting, about 40 meters long, about 50 meters wide, into a very regular rectangle, an area of nearly 2,000 square meters. The cliff face of the cliff is hard, covered with a protruding hemisphere, hemispheres are about 5 centimeters above the plane of the cliff wall, ranging from 7-12 centimeters in diameter. At the edge of each hemisphere, there is a small circular groove about 2 centimeters deep. The hemispheres are about 15 centimeters apart, and are arranged in an orderly vertical and horizontal pattern, seemingly with traces of sun, moon, insect and marine life patterns.

Expedition results disclosed in the press. Domestic and foreign scholars aroused great interest. But the conclusions are diverse, and there is no consensus. Some believe that this is a minority of the ancient She left the text; some link it with six or seven thousand years ago living in Xianju Xia Tang people, that is the remains of the ancestors; the local people have been rumored to be Xia Yu carved when the water; some take a negative attitude. That tadpole writing does not exist. It is a falsehood. Some people are rich in imagination, saying that it is the masterpiece left by aliens. Limited to the times and conditions, the Zhou Tingwei collected things of course impossible to preserve. The precious photographs taken by the "Anju Shadow Art Society" cannot be interpreted due to the distance, giving the impression that it is just a white blur on the surface of the cliffs and rocks.

According to the "People's Daily" reported: At present, China has found mysterious, to be deciphered by the original text or symbols **** eight. That has been suspected of ancient forgeries "Cangjie book", "Xia Yu book", Guizhou's "Hongyan Tianshu", "Yelang Tianshu", Sichuan unearthed "Ba Shu symbols", Yunnan found the "Dongba Script" found in Yunnan, "Rikulou Stele" from Yu Temple in Shaoxing, and Tadpole Script from Xianju. Among the eight scripts mentioned above, the tadpole script of Xianju is the earliest from the point of view of the time of discovery. In the first local history of China "Linhai Ji" written by Sun Shuo of the Southern Dynasty, it is said that "there is a stone wall on the mountain of Weiqiang and the characters are published like tadpoles". Twenty-four history of the "Song Book - County Records" also said that "Tianmu Mountain (Weiqiang Mountain alias) and Kuocang Mountain connected to the stone wall with the publication of characters Kodou-shaped, high and unrecognizable." In terms of the difficulty of interpretation, only the tadpole script is the most. The other seven kinds of text or in the book, or now in the excavated artifacts, or written in wood and stone, or engraved in stone tablets, or engraved on the stone wall, are all eye **** see the word. But only the tadpole text is confusing, so far has not seen the topography of its seal script.

According to ancient writing experts, tadpole writing, also known as "tadpole book", "tadpole seal script" "tadpole seal script", "tadpole bird trace Tadpole Seal Script" is a kind of ancient writing style. It has many strokes, with a large head and a small tail, and is shaped like a tadpole, hence the name. The name tadpole appeared only after the Han Dynasty, referring to the ancient script of the pre-Qin period. As a result, if the tadpole script is found in the Weiqiang Mountain, "it will be a great fortune for the academic world, and it is of great significance for the study of ancient scripts".

Tadpole writing, which often appears in ancient Chinese legends, initially refers to the writing used by the gods and immortals, and later refers to ancient writing that no one recognizes. It is also the usual name for the Yi script, which is still used by the Yi people today.