The origin of the Chinese characters is said to have been created by Kuraman, as stated in the ancient Chinese books. It is said that Kurama saw a god with a strange appearance and a face that looked as if it were a painting with Chinese characters on it, so Kurama created the characters by copying his image. According to some ancient books, after Kurama created the characters, the sky dropped millet because of the leakage of information, and the ghosts and gods cried at night. There is also another legend which says that Kurama observed the footprints of birds and beasts imprinted on the soil, and that this inspired him to invent the characters. All these rumors are unreliable. Words were slowly enriched and developed by the masses of laborers through long periods of social practice in accordance with the needs of real life.

From the fall of 1954 to the summer of 1957, Chinese archaeologists excavated the ruins of Half-slope (north of the village of Half-slope in the eastern suburb of Xi'an City) several times, and discovered that as early as 6000 years ago, the people of Half-slope, in the course of long-lasting life and production practices, created impeachment symbols of a literal nature, as well as artistic works such as paintings, sculptures and decorations. Most of the Hanpo people's markings are preserved on colored pottery, which can be regarded as the original Chinese characters. In recent years, China discovered a number of tombs (more than 4,500 years old) and unearthed a large number of artifacts at a site in the late Dawenkou culture on the Lingyang River in Ju County, Shandong Province. On some of the ceramic zunis, there was an image inscribed on each one of them, and more than 10 single characters were found. These characters were drawn according to the shape of the real thing, so they were called "hieroglyphic characters". The structure of the characters was very similar to that of the pictographs on the oracle bone inscriptions, but it was more than 1,000 years older than the oracle bone inscriptions. Therefore, "pictographs" are the earliest Chinese characters, and they already have the characteristics of characters.

There are three main ways to form Chinese characters:

Hieroglyphic method This is the earliest way to form Chinese characters, which created the most primitive characters, such as "sun", "moon", water, ox, etc. These hieroglyphic characters have been gradually developed into Chinese characters. Through gradual evolution, these pictograms have changed their original forms into the square ones, with some strokes reduced, some added, and from irregular to regular characters.

The ideograms were easier to see the rationale for the characters, but they could not express abstract meaning. But they could not express the abstract meaning. Ancient people created another kind of character creation method -- ideogram method. They used different symbols or borrowed "pictograms" and added some symbols to express an abstract meaning. Example: The character "明" is written to mean "sun" and "moon" bring light. The character "旦" is written as "旦", meaning the sun rises above the horizon.

Shape and Sound Both the pictograms and the ideograms could tell the meaning of the words from their shapes, but they could not pronounce the sounds. Therefore, the form-sound method was created to make words. By combining the sound-side of a word with the form-side of a word that indicates its meaning, many new words were formed. For example, the character "爸" is a combination of the phonetic character "巴" and the figurative character "父"; the character " 芭" is a combination of the characters "巴" and +. The word "Ba" is a combination of "Ba" and +". The number of such characters increased, and according to statistics, 形声字 accounted for about 90% of the Chinese characters. The formation and development of Chinese characters became an important tool for people to communicate their thoughts, and adapted to the needs of social life of human beings.