The origin of Chinese characters
In fact, with the continuous progress of civilization, more and more people have evolved from painting to hieroglyphics. In this process, due to the support of the government and the constant change of writing media, the standardization of Chinese characters finally formed the standard fonts we use now, which facilitated the communication between people and promoted the continuous development of culture.
The evolution of Chinese characters
Chinese characters have changed for more than 6000 years, and the evolution process is as follows:
Oracle Bone Inscriptions → bronze inscription → seal script → official script → regular script → running script.
(Shang) (Zhou) (Qin) (Han) (Wei and Jin Dynasties) cursive script
The evolution of Chinese characters can be simply summarized into five stages: sound, shape, image, number and reason.
Chinese characters are mainly divided into pictographic characters, knowing characters and pictophonetic characters.
First, pictographic characters: such as "the sun, the moon, the mountains and the Sichuan" all describe the shape of things. These are hieroglyphics in a narrow sense.
Second, word recognition: for example, two "trees" form a word "forest" and two "fires" form a word "inflammation". Refers to words that are knowingly committed.
3. Pictophonetic characters: They are formed on the basis of pictophonetic characters, signifier characters and cognitive characters, and are usually a complex of two characters, consisting of pictophonetic characters (ideographic characters) representing the meaning class and phonetic characters (phonetic symbols) representing the sound class. Pictophonetic characters are generally used as phonetic characters, which can be used as pictographs, indicators and cognitive characters. Pictophonetic characters are the most mass-produced forms of characters.