When and on what basis did Chinese characters sprout?

From the creation of characters in Cangjie to the discovery of Oracle bone inscriptions by Wang in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, China scholars have been devoted to uncovering the mystery of the origin of Chinese characters in Oracle bone inscriptions. There are many theories about the origin of Chinese characters in China ancient literature, such as story telling, knot tying, gossip, picture telling and calligraphy contract telling. It is also widely recorded in ancient books that Cang Xie, the historian of the Yellow Emperor, created Chinese characters. Modern scholars believe that systematic writing tools cannot be completely created by one person. If Cang Xie really exists, he should be a text organizer or publisher. In recent decades, Chinese archaeologists have published a series of unearthed materials about the origin of Chinese characters earlier than Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Anyang Yin Ruins. These materials mainly refer to the carved or painted symbols that appeared on pottery in the late primitive society and early historical society, and also include a few symbols engraved on Oracle Bone Inscriptions, jade and stone tools. It can be said that they provide a new basis for explaining the origin of Chinese characters. Wang, a doctoral supervisor of Zhengzhou University, made a systematic investigation and comparison of the carved symbols on pottery pieces unearthed from more than 9 archaeological and cultural sites in China 100, and thought that the earliest carved symbols in China appeared in Jiahu site in Wuyang, Henan Province, with a history of more than 8,000 years. These original materials are comprehensively sorted out in order to compare the occurrence and development of Chinese characters before Shang Dynasty. However, the situation is not so simple. In addition to the existing small-scale data of Zhengzhou Shangcheng site and Xiaoshuangqiao site (in recent years, more than 10 cases of Zhu Shutao's early characters of Shang Dynasty have been found), other symbols before Shang Dynasty are scattered and lack of contact with each other, and most of them are out of touch with Shang Dynasty characters. There are also some symbols with heavy regional colors and complex backgrounds. Wang formally formed in the Central Plains, and believed that the formal formation of the Chinese character system should be in the Central Plains. Chinese characters are a writing system of independent origin, independent of any foreign language. However, its origin is not single. After many times and long-term running-in, probably in the early summer, our ancestors creatively invented the writing symbol system of recording language on the basis of extensively absorbing and using early symbols. At that time, the Chinese character system matured rapidly. It is reported that according to the written materials unearthed from archaeological excavations, China had formal written materials at least in the Xia Dynasty. For example, in recent years, archaeologists have found the word "Wen" in writing brush and calligraphy on a flat pottery jar unearthed from the Taosi site in Xiangfen, Shanxi. These symbols belong to the basic configuration in the early writing system, but unfortunately such unearthed writing materials are still rare. About 6000 years ago, there were more than 50 kinds of carved symbols on the outer wall of pottery in Yangshao cultural sites such as Banpo site. They are well-planned, regular and have the characteristics of simplified Chinese characters, which may be the bud of Chinese characters. On the pottery in the late period of Dahankou cultural site and Jin Liang cultural site about four or five thousand years ago, it was found that there were relatively neat graphic descriptions, which were early graphic characters. In the early 1980s, more complete characters were found on the pottery unearthed from the Xia cultural site in Dengfeng, Henan. This is the earliest written language with exact time confirmed by scholars in China so far. In Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the commonly used word was Oracle Bone Inscriptions. This is a mature and systematic writing, which laid the foundation for the development of Chinese characters in later generations. After that, the number of popular inscriptions on bronze inscriptions has increased, but the shape has not changed much. After the Spring and Autumn Period, due to the warlord regime, there were "different glyphs". After the reunification of the Qin Dynasty, in order to consolidate the rule, the first emperor ordered the Prime Minister Reese, the Zhongche government to order Zhao Gao, and the Taishi government to order Hu Wujing. The characters were sorted out, and based on the original characters of Qin State, the seal script was formulated as a standard font, which was widely used in the whole country. Later, according to the popular fonts at that time, Bian Cheng sorted out simpler font official scripts, which were widely circulated throughout the country as daily words. In the Cao Wei era, Zhong You created the original script (regular script). At this point, the evolution of Chinese characters has been perfected. Moreover, since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the writing of Chinese characters has become a special art, namely calligraphy. At present, China historians generally believe that the source of China characters began in Shang Dynasty. In fact, Oracle Bone Inscriptions was very mature in the Shang Dynasty. Before this, there should be a process from occurrence, development to maturity, so some people advocate pushing it to the end of summer; Others think that we have our own opinions before promoting Zhixia. In Dialectical Development of Ancient Chinese Characters, tui Guo Moruo pointed out: "When did Chinese characters actually originate? I think this can be seen from the age of Xi' an banpo village site. " "Banpo site is about 6000 years old." "Banpo site is a typical Yangshao culture in Neolithic age", "Banpo painted pottery often has some simple descriptions with similar words, which are quite different from the patterns on the utensils." "Although the meaning of the description is not clear, it is undoubtedly a literal symbol." "Absolutely can be said to be the origin of China characters, or the Jie legacy of China's original characters. "On this basis, China civilization should be nearly 6000 years. When did China's writing begin? When did the oldest writing appear? What do they mean? Still in the contention of a hundred schools of thought, it seems that a lot of materials are needed to prove it! At present, the earliest recognized characters in the world are cuneiform characters that appeared in the ancient Middle East, 5000-6000 years ago. However, some symbols carved on tortoise shells found in Jia Hu, Henan Province can be traced back to 8000 years ago [2].