Do you have anagrams and information about the origin of Chinese characters?

From the ancient legend of Cangjie's creation of Chinese characters to the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions more than 100 years ago, Chinese scholars through the ages have been committed to unraveling the mystery of the origin of Chinese characters.

About the origin of Chinese characters, there are all sorts of claims in ancient Chinese literature, such as "knotting rope", "bagua", "drawing", "book deed" and so on. Book Deed", etc., the ancient books are also commonly recorded in the Yellow Emperor historian Cang Jie created the legend of the word. Modern scholars believe that the systematic writing tools can not be created entirely by one person, Cangjie if indeed there is a person, should be the text organizer or promulgator.

Earliest engraved symbols more than 8,000 years ago

In recent decades, China's archaeological community has released a series of unearthed materials older than the Yinxu oracle bones and related to the origin of Chinese characters. These materials mainly refer to the engraved or painted symbols that appeared on top of pottery in the late primitive society and early historical society, and also include a small number of symbols engraved on top of oracle bones, jade and stone tools. It can be said that they ****together provide a new basis for explaining the origin of Chinese characters.

By systematically examining and comparing the inscribed symbols on pottery shards unearthed from more than 100 sites of 19 archaeological cultures throughout China, Wang Yunzhi, a doctoral supervisor at Zhengzhou University, concluded that the earliest inscribed symbols in China appeared at the Jiahu site in Maoyang, Henan Province, more than 8,000 years ago.

As a professional worker, he tries to further organize these original materials through scientific means, such as the comprehensive use of archaeology, paleography, comparative philology, scientific and technological archaeology, and high-tech means, so as to identify some clues about the occurrence and development of Chinese characters before the Shang Dynasty.

However, the situation is not so simple, in addition to the Zhengzhou Mall site, small double bridge site (the site in recent years has found more than 10 cases of early Shang Dynasty Zhu Shu pottery text) of the small amount of material can be directly compared with the order of the Yinxu text, the other pre-Shanghai symbols are scattered, each other missing ring more, most of the symbols and with the Shang Dynasty text is not in the right shape. There are also some symbols with heavy regional colors and complex backgrounds.

The Chinese character system was officially formed in the Central Plains

Wang Yunzhi believes that the Chinese character system should have been officially formed in the Central Plains. Chinese characters are a writing system of independent origin, not dependent on any foreign scripts, but its origin is not single, after a pluralistic and long-term integration, probably at the time of the Xia Era, the ancestors creatively invented a system of characters and symbols used to record language on the basis of the experience of widely absorbing and utilizing the earlier symbols, and the system of Chinese characters matured relatively quickly in that era.

It is reported that, from the point of view of the unearthed writing materials in archaeological excavations, China already had a formal script at least during the Yu Xia period. For example, in recent years, archaeologists once in Shanxi Xiangfen Taosi site of a flat pottery pot, found on the brush Zhu Shu "Wen" character. These symbols belong to the basic form of the early writing system, but it is a pity that such excavated information is still scarce.

Writing first matured during the Shang Dynasty

As far as we know and as far as we can see, there were many types of writing carriers. At that time, in addition to writing with a brush on a simple book, the other main means of writing is engraved on tortoise shell and animal bone, pottery, jade, and pottery cast on bronze. The Shang Dynasty writing materials, which were mainly carried by bones and bronze ritual objects used for divination in Yinxu, are the earliest mature writing found in China so far.

The Shang Dynasty script reflected in the Yinxu period is not only characterized by a large number of characters and rich materials, but also by the fact that the way of making characters has formed its own characteristics and laws. The basic characters of the Shang Dynasty can be divided into four categories: the human body and a part of the human form as the basis for the construction of the word; to the creation of labor and labor objects as the basis for the construction of the word; to take the image of beasts and domestic animals as the basis for the construction of the word; to take the image of natural objects as the basis for the construction of the word. From the cultural connotation of the shape of the study, these mature earlier cut the object of the shape of the word and when the ancestors of the social life is quite close, with a strong reality of the characteristics. At the same time, the content depicted in these glyphs involves all aspects of human beings and nature, and is thus characterized by a wide range of sources

The earliest riddles arose around the time of the Han and Wei dynasties.

Liu Innocence "Wenxin Diao Long - Hidden Chapters" said: "Since Wei, quite not haiku, and the gentleman mocking hidden, turned into riddles." Liu said that riddles arose in the Wei Dynasty, because the literati at that time created many independent and complete word puzzles. For example, Kong Rong, a great writer at that time, wrote a poem "A Poem on the Names of Counties away from Cooperation", in which each line is in four lines, and each four lines or two lines allude to a word. The whole poem is twenty-two lines long, ****88 words. The full text is as follows:

Fisherman's father, water dive, hide the party; with the time to enter and stop, out of the temple to run. Lvgong iso hook, the whole mouth by the Wei; nine domains have the saint, no soil is not king. It is good to be upright, the woman back in the Kuang; overseas there is a swallow, falcon passes the eagle Yang. The six quills will be excited, but the feather ceremony has not yet been recognized; the dragon and the snake are dormant, so that it can be forgotten. The beautiful jade is hiding its light. I have no name, no reputation, and I have no words to hide them; and I have no idea how long it will take for me to get there.

The riddle of this poem reads "Kong Rong Wenju of the State of Lu" (Kong Rong's character Wenju). Kong Rong's poem is now recognized as one of the earliest complete and mature riddles produced in China. During this period, in addition to the poetic form, people often used objects other than words to express word puzzles in a cryptic way. According to the Shishu Xinyi (New Words of the World), when Yang Xiu was the chief minister, he once built a state house for Cao Cao. At the beginning of the construction, Cao Cao came out to inspect the building and was not pleased with it. He inscribed the word "Live" on the door of his palace and left without saying a word. When Yang Xiu saw this character, he immediately asked someone to tear down the door of the Xiangguo Mansion and rebuild it. He said, "The character '活' added to '门' means '阔'. The King of Wei is thinking the door is too small." After this incident spread, Cao Cao's skill in making riddles and Yang Xiu's skill in recognizing riddles were both rumored to be beautiful. By the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties of the Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties of the Han Dynasty, word puzzles had already become popular. Many literati and celebrities were addicted to riddles and regarded them as elegant music. Pan Yue of Jin Dynasty, Xie Lingyun, Xie Huilian and Bao Zhao of Song Dynasty, Wang Rong of Qi Dynasty, Xiaoyuzhi and Chen Shenjiong of Liang Dynasty, etc., all made a lot of similar riddles to Kong Rong's composite riddles. Of course, the riddle-making techniques of this period have developed greatly. Many methods such as hieroglyphics, comparing and comprehending, as well as the culture of famous objects, were also used in the partiality of the characters, which had a positive influence on the riddles of the later generations.

During the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties, riddle-making and riddle-guessing were very popular. Riddles were no longer confined to the scribes, but penetrated all corners of social life. Nursery rhymes and songs, prophecies, inscriptions, seals and paintings, novels and notes, theater techniques, and wine secret language, you can see the traces left by the riddles. From emperors and generals down to the common people, all of them took riddles for fun, took riddles as a play, and competed with each other in guessing, which became a momentary trend. Song and Yuan dynasties, make up riddles and riddle guessing is also taken as a skill, some people can even be used as a profession, make money to earn a living. The best of them were able to spread their fame in all directions and be known for a hundred years. Song - Wu Zimu "Dream sorghum record - novels about the history of the scriptures" records: "business riddles, the first congratulations with drums. Then gather people to guess poetry riddles, word riddles, hostile riddles, social riddles, this is a cryptic language. ...... Hang the riddle guesser, and say one or two, such as the return to the monk and Ma Dingzhai, remember to ask Boqia, the name of the syncope has been passed on for a long time." Just illustrates the popularity of the riddles at that time and people can make riddles, riddle guesser's respect