There have been many theories about the origin of Chinese characters since ancient times. The main ones are as follows:
One is to tie a rope. "Northern history? Wei Benji said that the ancestors of the Northern Wei Dynasty "hunted for a career, simplified for vulgarity, and simplified for change; Not for words, but for wood carving. "It records the tribes in primitive society or some ethnic minorities in China. Before the writing appeared, it recorded large and small events such as war, hunting, alliance, election, celebration, marriage, childbirth, disease and disaster by knotting notes. Zhouyili? There is a cloud under the copula: "The ancient people ruled by knots, and later generations were easy to use books, and hundreds of officials ruled them, and all the people observed them. "
The second is gossip. Kong Anguo's Preface to Shangshu (this is a fake, but it is a long time ago) said: "The ancients loved the king of the Xi family and began to draw gossip and make a book contract instead of tying the rope, so literary books came into being." Evie Fuck? Chisel degree "thinks: dry divination, Tian Zi ancient prose;" Kungua, ancient Chinese characters; Deviating from divination, the ancient Chinese character of fire in China; Kangua, an ancient water character in China; Sea melon, ancient prose with wind characters; China ancient divination and thunder writing; Gengua, ancient mountain words; Dugua, Zezi's ancient prose.
The third is Cang Xie's theory of word formation. This theory was very popular during the Warring States period. "Lu Chunqiu?" JUNSHOU "has" Cang Xie as a book and Hou Ji as a crop. "Xunzi and everything is done is also recorded. In the Qin and Han Dynasties, this legend became more popular. Huainanzi? Cang Xie was born to see birds and understand books. Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi? The preface has "Cang Xie wrote the beginning of a book, and Gai Yi is like a hieroglyph". Cang Xie is said to be a historian of the Yellow Emperor, who was the leader of the tribal alliance in ancient Central Plains. With the society entering the stage of large-scale tribal alliances, foreign affairs between alliances are becoming more and more frequent, and it is urgent to establish a set of communication symbols for the alliance to enjoy, so the work of collecting and sorting out * * * was handed over to historian Cang Xie. During the period of Chunhua in Song Dynasty, there was a famous calligraphy collection "Chunhua Pavilion Post", which contained five volumes of 28-word ancient seal script, and the legend was written by Cang Xie.
The fourth is the theory of pictures. Modern scholars believe that Chinese characters really originated from the original picture. Some figures carved on unearthed cultural relics are probably related to words. There are four bird-shaped patterns on the painted pottery basin of Yangshao culture in Neolithic age unearthed from the site of Hu Quan Village in Huaxian County, Shaanxi Province, which are very similar to "bird" (upward) and "Wei" (downward) in ancient Chinese characters. Shuowen said that "Wei" is a general term for short-tailed birds. Painted pottery pots of Yangshao culture unearthed from Anbanpo site in Xi 'an and fish-shaped patterns on bronzes in the late Shang Dynasty are vivid. Comparing them with some "fish" in ancient Chinese characters, the similarity is enough to make people believe that Chinese characters evolved from the original picture.
Fifth, the Book of Hutuluo says. "Is it easy? Cohesion: "River drawing, Luo writing, sage writing. "River map? Jade Edition: "Cang Xie is the emperor, and he hunts in the south, making a mountain with a sunny spot, and writing a book near the Yuan Dynasty. Dan Jiaqing wrote it as a gift. "'Painting' and' Book' are from Heluo, how mysterious! Mysticism is the main feature of this theory. In vain, it can be understood as books, but in fact, it can be understood as I ching and history books. Under the article "Book of River Map" in Ci Hai, it is said that in Fu, Yi Long appeared from the Yellow River with a horse carrying "River Map"; A turtle appeared from Luoshui, carrying "Luoshu". Fuxi painted eight diagrams based on this "picture" and "book", which was the source of the later Zhouyi. When Yu was in charge of water control, God gave him nine domains of Hongfan (Shangshu? HongFan), Liu Xin thinks HongFan is Luo Shu.