The earliest script appeared in the late Shang Dynasty, about14th century BC, when the initial stereotyped writing, namely Oracle Bone Inscriptions, was formed. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is both a hieroglyph and a phonography. Until now, there are still some pictographs in Chinese characters, which are very vivid.

Ideographic writing is the earliest writing in the history of Chinese formation in China. Chinese characters have gone through three stages: ideographic writing, phonography and ideographic writing, and phonography. Among them, ideographic characters refer to characters created according to the meaning of summarized content. In the initial stage of Chinese characters, there are no strokes and letters, which are gradually developed from pictures and physical records, so it is natural to incorporate the most dependent meaning into the font first.

Ideographic characters come from picture characters, but they weaken the nature of pictures and enhance the symbolism. Is the most primitive word formation. It has great limitations, because some physical abstract things can't be drawn. Therefore, on the basis of hieroglyphics, Chinese characters have developed into ideographic characters, and other word-forming methods have been added, such as understanding, referring to things, pictophonetic characters and so on. However, these new word-making methods still need to be based on the original pictographs, and they should be based on pictographs to combine, omit or add or delete symbols.

Since ancient times, China has said that "calligraphy and painting are of the same origin", because the earliest source of words is pictures, and calligraphy and painting are brothers, born from the same root, and have many internal relations. The origin of Chinese characters is the original painting, and primitive people express themselves in the form of "painting" in their lives. Slowly from the original pictures into "ideographic symbols", they are neat and regular, with the characteristics of simplified Chinese characters. Scholars believe that this may be the bud of Chinese characters.

The original Oracle Bone Inscriptions has a great degree of abstract significance. Ancient civilizations such as Egypt did not have this level. Why? Many scientists think: 1. There are still earlier characters not found; 2. Oracle Bone Inscriptions was abstract from the beginning. If it is the latter, then why are ancient civilizations such as Egypt not so high?

"Regular script" is particularly popular. Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, Ou Yangxun and other calligraphers were outstanding at that time, and their calligraphy works are still studied as models.

The origin of "cursive script", such as running script or other characters, is uncertain when it began. According to historical records, "During the Warring States Period, Chu Huaiwang made Qu Yuan a constitutional order, but the draft was not published. Shangguanshi saw it and wanted to take it away. The ancestor of Gaicaoshu began in. " Therefore, cursive script originated from cursive script, indicating that cursive script was formed in the Warring States period. Because the font started from cursive script, in order to play the role of sketching, it is omitted and scribbled, so it can't be written neatly, just as the name suggests. But this cursive script can only be said to be the draft of the ancient seal script (the font used at that time). The real cursive script began in the early Han Dynasty, and its evolution process should be "Cao Zhang", "Modern Grass" and "Crazy Grass". Due to the neatness of regular script, the need of writing quickly, and the writer's creation of expressing his thoughts and feelings at the end of the pen, a smooth, rhythmic and artistic font-"cursive script" has been produced.