1, from pictographic hieroglyphs to non-pictographic writing symbols, such as "fish, birds", looks like fish and birds, but now it doesn't.
2. The form of strokes has gradually changed from painting-like lines to horizontal, vertical, skimming, dot and folding strokes.
3. The structure and strokes of many Chinese characters are gradually simplified. For example, the "Shu" in Biography is a pictophonetic character, which sounds like it, and now it has become a cursive script.
4. There are many variants of Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jinwen, but the variants of Xiao Zhuan and regular script are reduced.
main feature
The evolution of Chinese characters has the characteristics of high recognition, deep impression and entertaining. In the play, the classic rubbings of China cultural relics in the key historical period of the evolution of Chinese characters are scanned with high precision, and the evolution process of Chinese characters from Shang, Zhou and Jin Jia characters to today's simplified characters is reproduced by micro-video, showing the internal origin between modern characters and ancient characters for the public.
Chinese characters are the bond of national soul. Making a living in a foreign country, Chinese characters are a kind of sustenance. Even a plaque, a piece of paper, and the square characters on it will attract you like a magnet and make you feel the kindness from your motherland. Because China people's feelings are condensed into the simplest. Every stroke is written in Chinese.
Overseas, whether successful or wandering, as long as there are Chinese characters, there will be much comfort and sustenance, because every word has a far-reaching origin, whether pictographic or ideographic, whether knowing or speaking, every China person is the soul of Chinese characters.
Simplification of Chinese characters
Since its birth, Chinese characters have experienced the evolution from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions and seal script to official script, cursive script, regular script and running script. The overall development of China's calligraphy is from complex to simple, and gradually simplified by reducing the number of strokes. But sometimes, in order to express the meaning better and more clearly, there is also the phenomenon of traditional Chinese characters.
In particular, the emergence of papermaking and printing has greatly promoted the development and spread of culture, and characters are increasingly used by the people. There are some simplified characters among the people, and the reduction of strokes of these characters is habitual and has a certain mass base. However, because they were different from the official Chinese characters at that time, they were considered vulgar and broken, and could not be called elegant.