Hieroglyphs, also known as ideographs, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Sumerian languages, ancient Indian languages, and China Oracle Bone Inscriptions, are all independently produced from the simplest pictures and patterns in primitive society.
China's hieroglyphics are the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation-an inheritance of the original way of describing things by ancestors, and also the most vivid and well-preserved characters.
Oracle Bone Inscriptions is an ancient script in China, which is also called "Wen Qi", "Oracle Bone Inscriptions", "Yin Ruins" or "tortoise shell and animal bones". As an early form of Chinese characters, it is the oldest mature script of China Dynasty, which was first unearthed in Yin Ruins in Anyang City, Henan Province. It belongs to ancient Chinese, not the ancient or primitive language of other languages.
Hieroglyphs refer to writing with graphics, which are similar in shape to what they represent. Generally speaking, hieroglyphics are the earliest characters. Outline the shape characteristics of the object to be expressed with lines or strokes of words.
Pictograph, which comes from pictures and characters, is the most primitive method of word-making, and its pictographic nature is weakened and its symbolism is enhanced. Egyptian hieroglyphics, Sumerian languages, ancient Indian languages, Oracle Bone Inscriptions and stone carvings in China are all independently produced from the simplest pictures and patterns in primitive society.
The hieroglyphic "Moon" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, China is like the shape of a curved moon, and the word "Turtle" (especially the traditional Chinese character [Turtle]) is like the side shape of a turtle. The word "horse" is a four-legged horse, and "fish" is a swimming fish with a head, a body and a tail.
The word "door" (more like the traditional door) is the shape of the left and right doors. The word "wine" without three drops of water is unitary, just like a wine bottle without wine, while the word "day" is like a circle with a little bit in the middle, much like the shape people see when looking directly at the sun.
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More than a century ago, Oracle Bone Inscriptions's discovery made the legendary Shang Dynasty a history of faith. However, if we conclude that China has only 3700 years of civilization, it will interfere with the public's understanding of China's 5000 years of civilization.
Lei Guangzhen, a scholar of civilization history in China and a professor at Chaoyang Normal University, said in an interview a few days ago that Oracle Bone Inscriptions is only the earliest known mature script in China. Before that, China had a long history of writing, such as rock paintings, pottery decorations and jade carvings, all earlier than Oracle Bone Inscriptions.
5,000 years ago, people painted, carved and embossed rock paintings in caves, cliff walls or independent rocks, and painted figures, animals or other freehand decorative patterns on pottery to express their thoughts and consciousness with jade as the carrier. Lei Guangzhen, for example, said that the large jade dragon unearthed in Hongshan Culture site was exactly the same as the word "dragon" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, with a head and a curled body, which was a pictographic or abstract jade dragon.
Lei Guangzhen emphasized that rock paintings, "pottery calligraphy" and "jade calligraphy" are all earlier writing forms than Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and they are information recorded by people using existing materials at that time, and they are important sources of inscriptions, simplified books and paper books in Oracle Bone Inscriptions and beyond.
"We can't separate the history of Chinese characters, we can't abandon all kinds of pictographic symbol systems that existed before Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and we can only judge the origin of Chinese civilization by Oracle Bone Inscriptions".
Lei Guang Zhen said that if the formation of characters is to be regarded as one of the important criteria of the origin of civilization, then China's hieroglyphs have been produced as early as 5,000 years ago. Together with other important elements of civilization that have been formed besides characters, the history of's 5,000-year civilization is certain.
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