Evolution of Chinese characters:
Chinese characters are one of the characters with the longest use time, the widest use space and the largest number of users in the world. The creation and application of Chinese characters not only promoted the development of China culture, but also had a far-reaching impact on the development of world culture. About 6000 years ago, in Banpo ruins and other places, more than 50 kinds of carving symbols have appeared.
Detailed introduction:
The Chinese nation is a great nation, and Chinese civilization is also the most unique civilization. Of all the countries in the world, only our China culture has been passed down without interruption, and only our "Chinese character" is the only writing form in the world that has evolved without interruption in ancient times.
From about14th century BC, "Oracle Bone Inscriptions" in the late Shang Dynasty was regarded as the first form of "Chinese characters", and today, various fonts have been born one after another. In Chinese characters, all kinds of fonts formed in different historical periods have their own distinctive artistic characteristics. For example, the seal script is simple and elegant, the official script is static and dynamic, the decoration is rich, the cursive script is fast and compact, and the regular script is neat and beautiful.
Running script is easy to read and write, practical, diverse in style and distinctive in personality. However, before the Qin Dynasty unified Chinese characters, China's Chinese characters were still confused in font and application. In a broad sense, ancient Chinese 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. Oracle Bone Inscriptions: Most of the characters left on tortoise shells and animal bones by writing or carving in the late Shang Dynasty are "Oracle Bone Inscriptions" and a few are "notes". Most of Oracle Bone Inscriptions's characters conform to the principles of pictographic characters and knowing characters, with pictophonetic characters accounting for only 20%.
Its characters are carved with a knife, some filled with cinnabar, and some written directly in ink. Because Oracle Bone Inscriptions evolved from pictures and characters, it has strong pictograph, many characters and uncertain strokes. This shows that China's writing was not unified in the Yin and Shang Dynasties.