Chinese characters are a unique language of our Chinese nation and a symbol of Chinese civilization. In our daily life, we can see it everywhere. It can be said that wherever there are Chinese people, there must be Chinese characters. There is a legend that a long time ago during the Huangdi period, the Yellow Emperor ordered his minister Cangjie to create writing. Cangjie was a weirdo with eight eyes. He used his eight eyes to observe all directions and see all kinds of things. He simplified the shapes of these things and carved them on turtle shells and animal bones, which became the earliest writing. This myth is of course absurd, but it also illustrates the fact that Chinese characters evolved from pictographs. Humanity has entered a slave society. At this time, there are more things that need to be recorded in words, and it seems too cumbersome to just use some graphic symbols to represent them. So people simplified some pictographic characters and combined some pictographic characters to form a new type of writing, which was easier for people to understand. For example, by combining "人" and "木", it becomes the word "xiu", which means a person sleeping against a tree. In this way, many characters were created, forming a new type of Chinese characters - ideographic characters.
In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, many vassal states appeared on the land of China, and the characters of these vassal states were different, so there was a situation where one word had multiple meanings and many words had one meaning. This has brought difficulties to cultural exchanges between countries. After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he ordered the unified use of one script - Xiaozhuan - across the country. This kind of writing is much simpler than the previous writing, but it is still a bit cumbersome, so an emergency popular style - official script - gradually emerged among the people. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhong Yao of Wei State created a simpler and more beautiful writing style - regular script. From then on, Chinese characters established their square shape and began to have a shelf structure. Later, people successively created various fonts such as cursive script and running script, and world-famous calligraphers such as "Zhong Wang", "Yan Liu", "Su Huang, Mi Cai" emerged. The development of Chinese characters has gradually entered a higher level. This is the origin and development of Chinese characters.