The emergence and development of characters need the baptism of time. What is the language used by Qin Shihuang after unifying the six countries?

After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he felt that the national writing was complicated and the style of writing was different, so he put forward the idea of "the same language is not named" and unified the writing and style. Qin Shihuang asked Lisi, who was good at calligraphy, to write a ghost. Therefore, Xiao Zhuan is also called "Qin Zhuan".

Another reason is to change the original winding stroke lines and sort out a new font with even strokes and convenient writing.

The formulation of seal script is the first time in China to systematically standardize the writing of Chinese characters.

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During the Yin and Shang Dynasties, characters gradually became popular. As an official language, bronze inscriptions are relatively consistent in form. However, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were regional differences in folk characters, such as weapons, Wen Tao, silk books and bamboo slips.

This situation has hindered the economic and cultural exchanges between different places, and also affected the effective implementation of policies and decrees of the central government. So, after Qin unified the Central Plains, Qin Shihuang ordered Li Si and others to sort out the unified characters.

Before the Qin dynasty unified the six countries, the vassal States acted in their own ways, and the writing forms were extremely disordered. This has caused serious obstacles to the implementation of government decrees and cultural exchanges. Therefore, after the unification of the six countries, Qin Shihuang took the unification of writing as a top priority, and ordered Prime Minister Reese, secretariat Zhao Gao and official minister Hu Wujing to sort out the writing.

On the basis of Qin script and referring to six scripts, Li Si created a new script with unified form and concise strokes, called "Qin Zhuan", also known as "Xiao Zhuan", as the official standard script, and abolished other variants.

Official script is also called "official character" and "ancient book". It is a font produced on the basis of seal script to meet the needs of convenient writing. The seal script is simplified, and the uniform circle lines of the seal script are changed into straight strokes, which is convenient for writing.

These two forms of writing are popularized all over the country. However, seal script is regarded as the standard script of Qin State, and the official documents of the emperor and the government are generally written in seal script, while unofficial documents are copied in official script.

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