What stages have the evolution of Chinese characters gone through?

The evolution of Chinese characters has gone through the stages of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscription, seal script, official script, regular script, cursive script and running script. Up to now, regular script has been widely used, but it has not been completely finalized.

1. Oracle Bone Inscriptions

About 654.38+05,000 pieces of Oracle bones were found, with more than 4500 words. These Oracle Bone Inscriptions records are extremely rich in content, involving many aspects of social life in Shang Dynasty, including not only politics, military affairs, culture and social customs, but also astronomy, calendars, medicine and other science and technology.

2. Jinwen

Bronze inscriptions refer to characters cast on bronze wares of Yin and Zhou Dynasties, also known as Zhong Dingwen. Shang and Zhou Dynasties were the bronze age, with the tripod as the representative ritual vessel and the bell as the representative musical instrument. "Zhong Ding" was synonymous with bronze ware. Therefore, Zhong Dingwen or inscriptions on bronze refers to inscriptions cast or carved on bronzes.

3. Big seal script

Representing the present Shi Guwen, it was named after a book written by Tai Shihuan of Zhou Xuanwang. On the basis of the original text, he transformed it and got his name because it was engraved on the stone drum. It is the earliest stone carving text that has been circulated so far, and it is the ancestor of stone carving. It began in the late Western Zhou Dynasty and traveled in Qin during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The fonts are similar to those of Qin Zhuan, but the configurations of glyphs overlap.

4. Xiao zhuan

Xiao Zhuan is also called "Qin Zhuan". During the Qin Dynasty, Li Si was ordered to unify the characters, which was called Xiao Zhuan. It was in the Qin dynasty. The shape is long, even and neat, and it evolved from Da Zhuan.

5. Regular script

Regular script is also called official script, or real book. Its characteristics are: square shape, straight strokes, can be used as a model, hence the name. Began in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

6. cursive script

A style of Chinese characters. Formed in the Han Dynasty, it evolved on the basis of official script for the convenience of writing.

7. Running script

A font between regular script and cursive script, which can be said to be cursive or cursive. It is to make up for the shortcomings of slow writing in regular script and illegible cursive script. The brushwork is not as sloppy as cursive script, and it is not required to be as correct as regular script. There are more methods of mold opening than cursive writing, which is called "mold opening". Cursive calligraphy is more than modular method, which is called "cursive calligraphy". Running script was produced in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

Extended data:

Chinese characters are used to write Mandarin and dialects, and Japanese, Korean/Korean and other languages can also be written by borrowing Chinese characters. It is the only official language in China and one of the official languages in Singapore. At present, the exact history can be traced back to Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. In Japanese, Hiragana and Katakana are mixed.

Chinese characters used to be one of the official languages of Lee's Korea (/kloc-a proverb invented by Sejong in Korea in the 5th century, also known as Korean/Korean). At present, South Korea only uses Chinese characters to avoid ambiguity, while North Korea all uses proverbs for spelling. Chinese characters, also known as Chinese characters, Chinese characters and Chinese characters, belong to morpheme syllables of ideographic characters.

Invented and improved by the Han nationality, it is one of the four oldest self-generated characters in the world (cuneiform characters in the two river basins, sacred script characters in ancient Egypt, Oracle characters in Shang Dynasty in China, Mayan characters), and it is also the only one still in use today.

Chinese characters are the longest-used characters in the history of the world, and they are also the main official characters in China. The change of official script is a milestone in the development history of Chinese characters. Chinese characters were named "Chinese characters" when they developed into official scripts in Han Dynasty.

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