50 characters in the history of Chinese characters

From Oracle Bone Inscriptions carved on the bones of tortoise shells in Shang Dynasty, to the bronze inscriptions carved on bronzes last week, to the big seal script that evolved in the late Western Zhou Dynasty, and then to the small seal script that appeared in the writing reform after Qin Shihuang unified the six countries.

The post-seal script was gradually replaced by a more convenient and simplified official script, and later evolved into a cursive script, with both regular script and cursive script appearing. At this point, China's Chinese characters are basically stereotyped and presented to the world together with the splendid Chinese civilization.

Chinese characters are one of the oldest characters in the world and a symbol of chinese heritage. Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins dates back more than 3,000 years.

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Legend of the origin of Chinese characters

1, Cangjie's theory of word formation

The most common legend is Cang Xie's word-making theory. Legend has it that Cang Xie is a god with a strange appearance and a face that looks like a picture with words, so Cang Xie copied his image and created words. According to legend, after Cang Xie created the characters, because the secret leaked, millet fell from the sky, and ghosts and gods cried every night.

2, knot notes said

In some tribes, in order to record and inherit the customs, traditions, legends and important events of the tribe, ropes with different thicknesses are used to form knots with different distances, and the knots are large and small. Each knot, distance and the thickness of the rope all express different meanings, which are recorded by special personnel according to certain laws and passed down from generation to generation. As time goes on, words are gradually derived from the symbols of knots.

3. Take notes and say

This legend is similar to the story of tying a rope, depicting various symbols and signs on wood, bamboo chips, stones, clay tablets and other objects, indicating certain significance. Characters evolved gradually from these symbols.

4, Shu Luo and said.

Legend has it that in Fu, a dragon horse appeared from the Yellow River, carrying a "river map"; A turtle appeared from Luoshui, carrying "Luoshu". Fuxi drew eight diagrams according to this kind of "picture" and "book". Later, Zhou Wenwang studied Wang Zhi's eight diagrams and sixty-four hexagrams according to Fuxi's eight diagrams and wrote eight diagrams respectively. The river map of Luoshu may reflect the earliest appearance of characters or symbols in Luohe area, but it does not mean that the origin of Chinese characters is the river map of Luoshu.

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