The origin of Chinese characters
According to legend, Chinese characters originated from the creation of characters in Cangjie. According to Han Xu Shen's Preface to Explaining Words: "When Cang Xie, the Emperor of the Yellow Emperor, saw the hoof tracks of birds and animals, he knew that they were different, and he made an initial book agreement. "Cang Xie is a historian of the Yellow Emperor tribe. He summed up and analyzed the general laws of natural things, and gave them meaning with lines of certain shapes to express the main characteristics of a certain kind of things.
Achieve the purpose of expressing sth. This hieroglyph was called "Wen" in ancient times. Later, pictophonetic characters were developed on the basis of pictophonetic characters, which were called "characters" in ancient times.
Chinese characters
What we can confirm now is that Oracle Bone Inscriptions, about 3000 years ago, is a very mature writing system, which was discovered in 1899. The development of verifiable Chinese characters has gone through the process of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscription, big seal script, small seal script, Han Li, regular script, running script and cursive script. Among them, regular script evolved from official script, which began in the Eastern Han Dynasty and became popular. Chinese characters can be divided into two stages.
From Oracle Bone Inscriptions to seal script is a stage; Judging from the official script of Qin and Han dynasties, there is still a stage. The former belongs to the category of ancient Chinese characters and the latter belongs to the category of modern Chinese characters. Modern Chinese characters are based on Han Li, which is called block letters.
Official script: Chinese font name. Also called history books. It evolved from the simplification of seal script. Turn the round strokes of seal script into square folds, and turn hieroglyphs into strokes to write. It was widely used in Qin, Han and Wei dynasties. Cheng Miao collected and sorted out this writing method in Qin dynasty, and later generations said that Cheng Miao created official script.
Official script can be divided into Qin official script (ancient official script) and official script (modern official script). The appearance of official script is a great change in ancient writing and calligraphy. Official script is a common solemn font in Chinese characters, with a slightly flat writing effect, long horizontal drawing and short straight drawing, and pays attention to "swallow tail of silkworm head" and "twists and turns".