Brief introduction to nouns:
Chinese characters, also known as Chinese characters and Chinese characters, are also called square characters, which are the recording symbols of Chinese and belong to morpheme syllables of ideographic characters. One of the oldest characters in the world has a history of more than 6000 years. In form, it gradually changes from graphics to strokes, pictographs to symbols, and complex to simple; In the principle of word formation, from ideographic, ideographic to phonological. Except for a few Chinese characters, they are all one Chinese character and one syllable.
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, big seal script and small 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 extant Chinese characters are Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty about 1300 BC and later bronze inscriptions.
The origin theory of Chinese characters;
Oracle Bone Inscriptions 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 devoted to uncovering 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.
Cang Xie said word for word:
According to legend, Cang Xie was a historian and creator of Chinese characters in the era of the Yellow Emperor. Huangdi was the leader of the tribal alliance in ancient Central Plains. With the society entering the stage of large-scale tribal alliances, foreign affairs between alliances are becoming more and more frequent. Therefore, there is an urgent need to establish a set of communication symbols enjoyed by all alliances, so the work of collecting and sorting out * * * was handed over to historian Cang Xie.
Experience stage:
Chinese characters mainly come from recordable pictographs, which are the basis of the formation and development of Chinese character system. Later, it evolved for thousands of years, including Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, seal script, official script, regular script, cursive script and running script. Regular script is used, but it has not been fully finalized.