1, Oracle Bone Inscriptions
Oracle Bone Inscriptions is an ancient script in China, which mainly refers to the script carved on tortoise shells or animal bones by the royal family in the late Shang Dynasty in China. It is the earliest mature Chinese character that we can see, and it is also the earliest known systematic carrier of Shang Dynasty characters in China and East Asia. It was first discovered by Wang.
Oracle Bone Inscriptions is written on tortoise shells and animal bones. It was unearthed in Xiaotun Village, Anyang, Henan Province, because it was once the capital of Shang King Pan Geng to Di Xin in the late Shang Dynasty, which was called "Yin" in history.
The Shang Dynasty destroyed the country and became a ruin. Later generations named it "Yin Ruins". Therefore, Oracle Bone Inscriptions is also called "Yin Ruins". Most of its contents are the words of royal divination, so it is also called "Oracle Bone Inscriptions" or "Zhenbu". This kind of handwriting is basically carved by Qi, also known as "Wen Qi" or "Yin Qi".
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.
Bronze inscription is a writing form of ancient Chinese characters in China. Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn and Warring States. There are four kinds of inscriptions on bronze, namely Shang Dynasty (about 1300 BC to about 1046 BC), Western Zhou Dynasty (about 1046 BC to 77 BC1year) and Eastern Zhou Dynasty (about 770 BC to 222 BC).
3. Xiao zhuan
Xiao Zhuan is a simplified character evolved from Da Zhuan, and it is also the product of large-scale standardization of Chinese characters by administrative means for the first time in China history.
After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he felt that the national writing was complicated and the style of writing was different, so he put forward the idea of "the same language is not named" and unified the writing and style. Qin Shihuang asked Lisi, who was good at calligraphy, to write a ghost. Therefore, Xiao Zhuan is also called "Qin Zhuan".