Modern Chinese characters refer to capitalized Chinese characters, including traditional characters and simplified characters. Modern Chinese characters have developed from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, seal script and seal script to official script, cursive script, regular script and running script.
Chinese characters were invented and improved by Han ancestors, which is an indispensable link to maintain the Han dialect area. The earliest existing Chinese characters are Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Shang Dynasty and later inscriptions on bronze in about 1300 BC, which evolved into seal script in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and then to seal script and official script in the Qin Dynasty, until the official script prevailed in the Han and Wei Dynasties, and the official script was changed to regular script at the end of the Han Dynasty. Regular script prevailed in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.
From the ancient legend of Cangjie's word-making to the appearance of Oracle Bone Inscriptions more than 1000 years ago, China scholars have been trying to uncover the mystery of the origin of Chinese characters. There are always different opinions about the origin of Chinese characters, among which the most influential ones are: knot rope theory, gossip theory, seal cutting theory, Cangjie word-making theory, description theory and picture theory.
Conclusion: Before writing came into being, the ancients remembered and recognized things by tying knots, which played a role in helping people remember. The Book of Changes under Cohesion: "After the ancient times, the sages changed it into a book contract, and all officials ruled it, and all the people kept it." Zheng Xuan in the Han Dynasty noted: "Knotting rope is a promise, a big event and a big knot; Small things, sum up their tricks.
"Zhuangzi Gui" said: "In the past, Rongcheng, Dading, Bo Huang, Zhong You, Lulu, Xu Li, Xuanyuan, Xushi He, Zunlu, Zhu Rong, Fu Xishi and Shennong were used by the people. "Another example is the Book of Changes, which quotes JUNG WOO's Jiu Jia Yi:" The ancients were silent, but they swore. The big ones tied their ropes, and the small ones summarized their ropes. The number of knots depends on the number of things; Being honest with each other is enough. "After the Eastern Han Dynasty, many people attached the origin of Chinese characters to knots.