Human beings have produced language in their work and life. Writing and calligraphy are due to the need to record and spread language information, and calligraphy is due to the pursuit of the aesthetic feeling of writing. With the development of history, different writing carriers in the past dynasties have promoted or restricted the emergence and development of writing and calligraphy.
At present, the earliest systematic Chinese character found is Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty, which has a history of more than 3,000 years. Its content is mostly the divination notes of the royal family, involving astronomy, geography, religion, sacrifice, lineage, family, conquest, hunting and many other aspects. It is the earliest existing official document in China, and can be regarded as a precious historical archive for studying the social history, culture and language of ancient China, especially the Shang Dynasty. Oracle Bone Inscriptions used a cutting tool to carve strokes, which were uniform in thickness, integrated in structure, full of charm and simple in style, and contained the beauty of calligraphy.
The pre-Qin period is the period of the origin and initial development of China's calligraphy art, and it is also a period of rich calligraphy characteristics, which is directly related to the diversification of its calligraphy carriers. Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronzes, bamboo, wood, silk, stones, jade, etc. Being the carrier of writing has objectively promoted the constant change and gradual evolution of China's calligraphy form. In addition, from the changing track of writing carrier, we can see the psychological course of aesthetic pursuit and development of China ancestors. They keep trying to write Chinese characters on different objects in order to find a carrier that is convenient for application and can better express the effect of pen and ink. At the same time, the change of the carrier of calligraphy has also prompted calligraphers of past dynasties to constantly adjust and enrich their brushwork according to the nature of the carrier, thus further promoting the development of China's calligraphy art. Therefore, to some extent, the development history of China's calligraphy is also the evolution history of the writing carrier.