The Evolution Order of Filial Piety

The evolution of "filial piety" has gone through eight stages. The first stage is Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the second stage is bronze inscriptions, then seal script, then official script, regular script, running script and cursive script. Up to now, the standard Song Dynasty has gone through eight stages.

The evolution of the word "filial piety" can be said to be a process of deleting complexity and simplifying. The original Oracle Bone Inscriptions, because it is hieroglyphics, has the most strokes and is also the most complicated. Later, in order to facilitate writing and recording, the word "filial piety" began to be simplified slowly until the current standard song style was established.

It can be seen from the ideographic writing of the word "filial piety" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions that "Zi" raised his hand to kowtow to the old man, which means "filial piety" and has the purpose of "filial piety" in it.