China's Chinese characters are extensive and profound. In the early days, Chinese characters were written with stones and bones. Later, with the development of civilization, logging began and characters were written with wood and bamboo. Later, when I had paper, I began to write with paper. Until today, the Chinese character culture in China has been undergoing different changes, including font, rhythm, interpretation and format.
Since ancient times, Chinese characters have been written vertically. Whether the text carrier is stone, bone or bamboo, even after paper, they were written from top to bottom until the 1950s. So with paper, even the dividing line is divided into several columns from top to bottom; This is actually related to the carrier of Chinese characters.
In feudal society, Chinese characters began to develop faster and faster. In order to facilitate communication, people constantly evolve Chinese characters, and similarly, carriers are constantly evolving. People think that stones and bones, as carriers, are really limited in load and inconvenient to carry, so they began to write with bamboo and wood, and bamboo tube books appeared. Bamboo and wood are slender, so people write along the shape of the carrier, and over time it becomes a kind of? Writing rules? .
Later, with the progress of society, modern pens and water-based pens appeared, and paper became the main carrier of Chinese characters. People find it more convenient to write on paper with a pen, but it seems more convenient to write horizontally. Later 1955 began to appear the proposal of writing Chinese characters horizontally.