The emergence of texts should be the most significant indicator of the emergence of civilized behavior. The four earliest texts in the world are the Sumerian cuneiform script, the ancient Egyptian holy script, Chinese characters and Mayan characters each represent the origin of different civilizations in different regions. Among them, the oracle bone writing in our country has a long history although it originated very early.
Let’s take a look at the difference between oracle bone inscriptions and nail-head inscriptions in Mesopotamia. The occurrence of oracle bone writing is about 2,000 years later than the nail-head writing in the Mesopotamia. Oracle bone writing is a text with a long history in my country. It is inscribed on tortoise shells or animal bones. It is a perfect text in my country during the Yin and Shang periods. Nailhead script was a common text in ancient Arava, printed on mudguards made of moist clay. Differences:
1. The content included is different
Hieroglyphs, also known as ideograms, Indian hieroglyphs, Sumerian, ancient Indian civilization and our country Oracle bone writing.
Oracle bone inscriptions are a type of text with a long history in my country. They are also known as "deeds", "oracle bone inscriptions", Yinxu texts or "tortoise shell and animal bone inscriptions".
2. Different regions
Oracle bone writing is a kind of ancient text in my country. It is a perfect text in the Yin and Shang Dynasties of my country. It was first discovered in Anyang, Henan City Yinxu.
About 5,000 years ago, ancient Egypt invented hieroglyphs. This type of early pictographic characters was slow to write and very difficult to understand. As the years passed, even the ancient Egyptians themselves forgot how to interpret it. Later, with the excavation of the Rosetta Stone, we were able to identify this type of text today.
Due to the original characteristics of the hieroglyphic characters being complex and difficult to learn, they are gradually being replaced in most areas by Pinyin texts that are easier to learn and master. (However, due to regional and landmark pronunciation differences, the difficulty of inheriting Pinyin is even higher).
3. Different font styles
Oracle bone characters have a symmetrical and smooth layout. The three elements of calligraphy art include holding the pen, forming characters, and technique. Judging from the number and structure of font styles, oracle bone script has already developed into a text with a more sophisticated system.
Pictographs come from pictographs and are an original method of creating characters. The weakening of painting characteristics represents an improvement in characteristics. Indian hieroglyphs, Sumerian, ancient Indian civilization, and my country's oracle bone inscriptions and stone carvings were all individually formed from the simplest patterns and patterns in ancient times. 1. my country’s Oracle Bone Script
We Chinese are all familiar with Oracle Bone Script. It is the earliest form of Chinese characters that everyone has used today. It is often called Oracle Bone Script because At that time, people would write text on tortoise shells or animal bones. The history of oracle bone inscriptions is very long, beginning in the late Yin and Shang Dynasties in my country. At that time, people wrote such texts on tortoise shells mainly for divining diaries, so from the oracle bone inscriptions, we can also understand the Yin and Shang Dynasties. Some history and humanities of Shang Dynasty. 2. The differences between Sumerian cuneiform writing and oracle bone writing
The Sumerian cuneiform writing is white nail-head writing. It is said that this type of writing originated in Mesopotamia The sub-plain region, currently known as the Mesopotamia, is the earliest region where the history of human development originated. Comparing my country's oracle bone writing with the Sumerian nail-head writing, although it occurred about 2,000 years later, my country's oracle bone writing can be widely circulated, and it is the only one among the four classical texts that has gained widespread popularity. A text that has been circulated and is commonly used today. Secondly, the Sumerian nail-head writing originated in the Mesopotamia and Mesopotamia, while my country’s oracle-bone writing originated in the Weihe River Valley.
3. Other earlier texts in the world
In addition to Chinese oracle bone texts and Sumerian nail-head texts, there are also two other major classical texts in the world, the first of which is the ancient India also has a very long history and culture about Egyptian holy scripts. The ancient Egyptians often called the scripts holy scripts because they felt that this kind of text was very noble and sublime. At that time, the ancient Egyptians called the holy scripts The words are usually written on some vessels used for worship or on the walls of some more lofty temples. Another kind of text is Mayan writing. Maya is a relatively mysterious existence to modern people. Mayan writing originated in South America.