The origin of Chinese characters

Before the Qin Dynasty unified Chinese characters, China's Chinese characters were still confused in font and application. China's ancient literature in a broad sense includes the characters before Xiao Zhuan, and also includes Da Zhuan.

In a narrow sense, it refers to the characters before Dazhuan in the history of China characters. Here, the narrow concept of ancient prose is adopted. Ancient prose includes Oracle Bone Inscriptions and inscriptions on bronze; Among them, the former is considered as the earliest stereotyped writing in China.

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They are neat and standardized, with the characteristics of simplified Chinese characters, which scholars think may be the germination of Chinese characters. The Chinese character formation system is the Shang dynasty in BC 16. Archaeology confirmed that in the early Shang Dynasty, Chinese civilization had developed to a fairly high level, and one of its main features was the appearance of Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is an ancient writing carved on tortoise shells and animal bones.

In Shang Dynasty, the king had to do divination before doing anything, and Oracle Bone Inscriptions was the tool of divination. Oracle Bone Inscriptions should be treated before use. Remove the flesh and blood from the Oracle bones first, and then saw them flat. Then, use a knife to drill a notch on the inside of the nail or the back of the animal bone. The arrangement of these gaps is orderly.

A fortune teller or wizard engraves his name, the date of divination and the questions to be asked on the Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and then burns the hole in the Oracle Bone Inscriptions with a torch.

The cracks that appear when these depressions are heated are called "signs". The wizard analyzes the trend of these cracks, obtains the result of divination, and engraves the divination on the Oracle bone. After the divination came true, these Oracle bones engraved with Oracle Bone Inscriptions became official files and were preserved.

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