1, Oracle Bone Inscriptions
Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the earliest and most complete ancient script discovered by China. Oracle Bone Inscriptions mainly refers to the Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Yin Ruins, also known as "Yin Ruins Characters" and "Yin Qi", written on the bones of tortoise shells and beasts in Shang Dynasty.
2. Jinwen
The bronze inscriptions on Yin and Zhou bronzes are also called Zhong Dingwen. Shang and Zhou Dynasties were the bronze age, with the tripod as the representative ritual vessel and the bell as the representative musical instrument. "Zhong Ding" was synonymous with bronze ware.
3. Xiao zhuan
After Qin Shihuang unified China (22 1 year ago), Xiao Zhuan implemented the policy of "the words are the same, the cars are the same", and unified measurement is responsible. On the basis of the original script of the Qin Dynasty's Da Zhuan, it was simplified, and the variant characters of the other six countries were cancelled, creating a unified writing form of Chinese characters.
4. Official script
Lishu, also called Han Li, is a solemn font commonly used in Chinese characters. Its writing effect is slightly wide and flat, the horizontal painting is long and straight, and it is rectangular, paying attention to "silkworm head and goose tail" and "twists and turns".
5, cursive script
A Chinese character with simple structure and continuous strokes. Formed in the Han Dynasty, it evolved on the basis of official script for the convenience of writing. There are Cao Zhang, Cao Jin and Crazy Grass.
6. Regular script
Regular script, also called regular script, regular script, regular script or original script, is a common font in China's calligraphy. Its glyph is square, unlike the flat one written in official script. Regular script is still the reference standard of modern calligraphy in China, and another kind of calligraphy, pen-and-ink, has also developed.
7. Running script
Running script is produced on the basis of regular script, which is a font between regular script and cursive script. It came into being to make up for the slow writing speed of regular script and the illegible cursive script.
Characteristics of Chinese characters
1. Chinese characters have a long history and are profound. China is one of the oldest countries in the world, and our Chinese civilization has continued from its birth to the present without interruption. As one of the basic carriers of culture, Chinese characters naturally have unique advantages. Chinese characters have a history of thousands of years from their origin to now, and have profound connotations. Not only that, Chinese characters have a great influence on our neighboring countries. Even now, we can see the shadow of Chinese characters from the characters of some neighboring countries.
2. simplify the complex. Chinese characters have crossed the long river of time since their formation, and their appearance has also undergone tremendous changes. From the beginning, graphics gradually evolved into strokes, from complex strokes to concise and clear forms now.
3. There is a certain relationship between the form, sound and meaning of Chinese characters. Chinese characters come from life and have strong reference significance. Traditionally, we think that Chinese characters are ideograms, and we can guess its meaning from its shape. For example, the word next to the word "clothes", we will wonder if this is related to clothing.
For example, the word "three points of water", people's first reaction is related to water. This is the relationship between form and meaning. There is also a relationship between sound and meaning, such as "Didi, Didi, Ding Ding Dong Dong". As soon as we read it, we knew it was a word related to sound, which is also the special magic of our Chinese characters.
4. The number of Chinese characters is huge. The number of Chinese characters is huge. There are more than 90 thousand Chinese characters, and there are more than 7 thousand commonly used Chinese characters. The most commonly used 3000 Chinese characters can basically cover all fields of Chinese characters we need in our daily life. So we need to master about 3500 Chinese characters to cope with our daily study and work.