The first thing that can be called writing is the oracle bone inscriptions of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, which have both pictographic and phonetic inscriptions; It established the characteristics of square Chinese characters;
Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, and Li Si eliminated the complexity and kept simplicity, and unified the promotion of small seal script, which was simplified from the large seal script;
It was produced at the same time and is easy to use. Official script written with a brush;
In the Han Dynasty, official script matured and Zhangcao was produced;
In the Tang Dynasty, official script and Zhangcao evolved into regular script, which is the prototype of modern handwriting;
< p>The popularity of engraving in the Song Dynasty gave rise to printed script, which was then optimized through the ages and finalized in the 16th century as Song script, the prototype of modern Chinese character printing;Simplified Chinese characters appeared during the Republic of China, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, a nationwide Promotion is what we write in simplified Chinese now.
The general development direction is as follows: hieroglyphics - seal script with obvious lines - official script, cursive script, regular script that is easy to write with a brush - printed scripts such as Song script that are easy to print - simplified Chinese characters that are widely promoted.