First, expand the information.
Zhong You was born in a noble family, named Shi, with extraordinary appearance and superior intelligence. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ju Xiaolian was born, and served as assistant minister of Shang and Huangmen successively, assisting Emperor Xian of Han to return to Luo, and was conferred the title of Qiu. Deeply trusted by Prime Minister Cao Cao, he served as a captain, guarding Guanzhong with outstanding achievements, and moved to the former army sub-division.
Cao Cao was appointed as Wang Wei, became the Dali State Secretary of Wei State, and moved to Guo Xiang. After the establishment of Cao Wei, he successively served as Tingweiqing, Taiwei and Taifu, and conferred the title of Hou of Dingling County, ranking third. In the fourth year of Taihe (230), Zhong You died and posthumous title succeeded. At the beginning of four years (243), it was returned to Cao Cao Temple, Emperor Wu of Wei.
Zhong You is good at seal script, official script, original script, running script and cursive script, and he is quite accomplished in calligraphy, which promotes the development of regular script (lower case) and has a far-reaching influence on later calligraphy. Later generations are honored as "the originator of regular script", and they are also called "Zhong Wang" with Wang Xizhi, the sage of calligraphy. Yu Jianwu of the Southern Dynasties was rated as the top grade; In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Huaiguan was rated as a "divine product" at the end of Shu.
Second, the origin of Chinese characters
Archaeologists in China have published a series of unearthed materials about the origin of Chinese characters earlier than Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins, rewriting the history of China characters. Jia Hu's woodcut has a history of about 7762 years by carbon 14 physical determination. There are also double pier carvings 7000 years ago, Banpo pottery carvings 6000 years ago, and Qingdun ruins carvings 5000 years ago.
, Dawenkou Taozun symbol, Zhuwen of Yaoshun Taosi site, Shuishu of Xia site, etc. Early Oracle Bone Inscriptions was rich in writing system, and later it surpassed the history of origin and belonged to the initial mature stage.
Third, expand information.
Chinese characters, also known as Chinese and Chinese characters, are also called square characters, which are recorded 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.
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 existing Chinese characters are Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Shang Dynasty and later inscriptions on bronze in about 1300 BC, which evolved into seal script in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and then to seal script and official script in the Qin Dynasty, until the official script prevailed in the Han and Wei Dynasties, and the official script was changed to regular script at the end of the Han Dynasty. Regular script prevailed in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.