Ancient Descriptive Symbols and the Generation of Chinese Characters

Next, I will study and summarize the history of China's calligraphy, hoping to stick to it.

Argument: Cang Xie creates characters.

Parameters:

1, "Shi Ben Zuo pian" says "Shi Huang draws pictures and Cang Xie writes books".

2, "Lushi Chunqiu Junshou" records that "Xi Zhong made cars, Cang Xie made books, Hou Ji made crops, Hao Tao made punishments, Kunwu made pottery, and Xia Yun made cities. It is enough that these six people have done it. "

3, "Huainan Ziben Jing Xun" said that "Cang Xie is used to books, millet, ghosts crying at night."

4. The deified cloud "Cang Xie's Four Eyes" in Wang Chong's "On the Ancient Images of Heng"

5. "Tao Te Ching Zen Tong Ji" further explains that "the dragon face is luxurious and the eyes are clear."

6. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Xu Shen elaborated on this in "Shuo Wen Jie Zi Xu": "Cang Xie, the history of the Yellow Emperor, saw the traces of birds and beasts, and knew their differences, and initially booked a book."

7. The Spring and Autumn Yuanming newspaper said that it "looked up at the joy of the stars, looked down at the feathers of fish and birds, and made a speech."

Why is the invention of writing an important symbol of human society entering the civilized era?

1. With words, human knowledge about production and life can be spread, spiritual civilization can be carried forward, and the will to rule can be implemented beyond time and space.

2. On its great function, it can communicate ghosts and gods, connect ancient and modern, and explain the universe, covering yin and yang; When you are young, you can tell things, you can tell stories and you can do everything.

Is the depiction symbol the original text?

Time: About 6000 to 3500 years ago (more than 2000 years).

Location: Gan Qing in the west, Land Rover in the east, Inner Mongolia in the north and Jiangxi and Guangdong in the south.

Classification: Class A, abstract depiction (drawing) symbols.

Class b, heteromorphic original word.

Class c, figurative pottery depicting symbols.

Class A, abstract description (drawing) symbol list

Name and location characteristics

The symbols of Yangshao culture pottery are Anbanpo, Lintong Jiangzhai, Baoji Beishouling and Dadiwan in Gansu, which are mainly used on the mouth edge of black striped pottery bowls, each with one symbol, and repeated use is quite regular.

The symbols of painted pottery in Majiayao culture are Banshan in Gansu, Racecourse in Qinghai and Liuwan Site. Some symbols are similar to the above, but most of them are more complicated and have the characteristics of patterns, which are different from words.

Sichuan-Hubei Daxi culture, Qujialing culture, Guangdong Xiqiao Mountain culture, Zhixia Erlitou culture in the late Shang Dynasty and Zhengzhou Shang Dynasty culture are all similar symbols to describe pottery.

Pottery symbols of Xiaoheyan culture in Zhaowudamang, Inner Mongolia and Songze culture in Shanghai.

Shuangdun site in Bengbu, Anhui, Wucheng site in Qingjiang, Jiangxi, and Taixi village site in Gaocheng, Hebei (Shang Dynasty) with Liangzhu culture in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River are similar in style.

Class b, alien original:

The only original text recognized by academic circles (not recognized by the author of this article)

Class c, figurative pottery depicting symbols:

Venue: Late Dawenkou Cultural Site, Shandong Province

Features: engraved at the same position on the outer edge of the big jar, which can be used repeatedly.

1, reported on the topic of "the earliest hieroglyphs in China";

2. Some scholars have confirmed that they are "image symbols".

Businessmen create words?

1, "Shangshu Todos" contains the saying of the Duke of Zhou that "only Yin Zu has books".

2. Only Class A symbols can be seen in the remains of Xia culture, even if it is like the site of the Grand Palace of Erlitou culture. Some scholars have tried to find the capital of Xia Dynasty. )

3. Oracle Bone Inscriptions matured in the late Shang Dynasty.

4. The primitive religion of Shang culture is very developed, which permeates all aspects of social production and life. This is the sole purpose and purpose of the merchants to create characters at first.

5. Among the Yueshi cultural remains, a small number of Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jia Bu engraved with symbols and characters have been found (nearly 300 years earlier than Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins)-1997 May 18, China Cultural Relics Newspaper reported the excavation of Shijiacun site in Huantai County, Zibo City, Shandong Province with the title of "Great Victory in Excavation of Historians Site in Huantai".