The article The Earliest Use of Characters and Symbols in 7000 BC in China, Henan and Jia Hu, co-authored by Zhang Zhongzhu and Professor Li Xueqin, was published in the British magazine Ancient, which attracted the attention of some domestic and foreign media, and interested foreign scholars also discussed it on the website of Science. An Analysis of Cai and Zhang Juzhong's Brilliant Dawn of Chinese Civilization —— Also on the divinatory symbols [1] discovered by Jia Hu in Wuyang: in the inscription of Jiahu 2 1, the recognized 1 1 belongs to the divinatory symbols reflecting the images of Li Li and Kun in the Yi Studies.
Zhu Yuan (Yi) and Qu Muyuezhi (Yi), associate researchers of Chuxiong Institute of Yi Culture, Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, personally visited Zhengzhou and Wuyang, and interpreted them one by one. They thought that they were ancient Yi scripts in southern Shandong, which retained the original Chinese character system, and the Yi people independently developed from a group of people who migrated from ancient Chinese nations in the Central Plains War. The pottery unearthed from Erlitouxia site in Yanshi, Luoyang City, Henan Province, has 24 water calligraphy characters [5].
A more eclectic view is that China characters "formed a relatively complete writing system" in the middle and late Xia Dynasty 4,000 years ago. Of course, this is not a recognized view, because there are few words unearthed in the Xia Dynasty. Qin Shihuang unified writing and measurement. His outstanding achievement was Li Si, the prime minister at that time. Li Si collected and sorted out the characters at that time, and then simplified and beautified them. The unified characters were called Xiao Zhuan, also known as Qin Zhuan. At this time, there are almost no hieroglyphs in the text.
The writing of Xiao Zhuan in Qin Dynasty was too standard and slow, so many simple fonts appeared among the people. This font is characterized by changing the circle of "Xiao Zhuan" into a square. The tune of Xiao Zhuan was straightened and some radical parts were separated, which was called Qin Li. Official script is very popular, basically square, but Han Li has given full play to the role of a brush, with the twists and turns of "silkworm head and goose tail", which is easy to write. This kind of official script was popular in the Western Han Dynasty. Call it "Han Li".
When Han Li was popular in the Han Dynasty, regular script was still in its infancy. It was very popular in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi in Jin Dynasty were the real founders of regular script. At the same time, they absorbed the round strokes of seal script, retained the square straightness of official script, and removed the "dovetail". The structure of Chinese characters is generally fixed. At that time, it was called "true calligraphy", and later generations renamed it "orthodox calligraphy" because it was used as a model for learning calligraphy. Regular script is particularly popular. Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, Ou Yangxun, Wang Xizhi and other calligraphers were outstanding at that time, and their calligraphy works are still studied as models.
The origin of "cursive script", such as running script or other characters, is uncertain when it began. According to historical records, "During the Warring States Period, Chu Huaiwang made Qu Yuan a constitutional order, but the draft was not published. Shangguanshi saw it and wanted to take it away. The ancestor of Gaicaoshu began in. " Therefore, cursive script originated from cursive script, indicating that cursive script was formed in the Warring States period. Because the font started from cursive script, in order to play the role of sketching, it is omitted and scribbled, so it can't be written neatly, just as the name suggests. But this cursive script can only be said to be the draft of the ancient seal script (the font used at that time). The real cursive script began in the early Han Dynasty, and its evolution process should be "Cao Zhang", "Modern Grass" and "Crazy Grass". Due to the neatness of regular script, the need of writing quickly, and the writer's creation of expressing his thoughts and feelings at the end of the pen, a smooth, rhythmic and artistic font-"cursive script" has been produced.
Between regular script and cursive script is "running script". Running script is not as standard and serious as regular script, nor as bold and unrestrained as cursive script, but it is elegant and cheerful, and the font is flexible. It is also the most popular and commonly used font. One of the four great inventions in China, engraving printing was improved by Bi Sheng to movable type printing, and "Song typeface" should also be made. First produced in the Northern Song Dynasty, it was changed from regular script. There are fat and thin, but regardless of fat and thin, they are horizontal, thin, vertical and square. Looks quaint and dignified.
"Imitation of Song Dynasty" is also a font that imitates Song Dynasty. This font has only appeared for 70 or 80 years, but it has developed very rapidly. It is the standard font that people like to use most, and it has been widely used in printed matter and various occasions.
At the same time, the "black body" was born. This font is striking and generous, the handwriting is the same thickness, the structure is striking and compact, the strokes are strong and powerful, and the strokes are not sharp, which makes people read easily. Because of its striking characteristics, it is often used in titles, introductions, signs and so on. It enriches the expression forms of Chinese characters. There are variety shows, whole pieces, floating clouds, variants and so on. This is the concrete manifestation of the cultural prosperity of the motherland and the inevitable result of the development of Chinese characters. Chinese characters, also known as Chinese characters, Chinese characters and Chinese characters, are widely used in the cultural circle of Chinese characters. They belong to morpheme syllables of ideographic characters, which were invented and improved by the ancient Han people. The exact history can be traced back to Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty around 1300 BC. Then the seal script of the Qin Dynasty was named "Chinese Characters" in the Han Dynasty, and in the Tang Dynasty it became the standard of handwritten fonts used today-regular script. Chinese characters are the main characters that have been used for the longest time so far, and they are also the only characters that have been passed down to this day in various ancient writing systems. Some scholars believe that Chinese characters are one of the key elements to maintain the long-term reunification of China's north and south, and some scholars list Chinese characters as China's fifth greatest invention. In China, Chinese characters are the main official languages of several generations.