The evolution of Chinese characters

1. Chinese characters have evolved for more than 6,000 years, and the evolution process is as follows: Oracle Bone Inscriptions → Jinwen → Dazhuan → Lishu → Regular script → Running script. The above seven fonts are called "seven Chinese characters".

1, Oracle Bone Inscriptions: The characters written on tortoise shell bones in Shang Dynasty are called "Oracle Bone Inscriptions". Since Shang dynasty.

2. Bronze inscription: It is an inscription carved on bronze in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Also known as Zhong Dingwen. Bronze inscriptions are thick and wide, and the stippling is round and muddy. Bronze inscriptions are more standardized than those in Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

3. Da Zhuan: In the late Western Zhou Dynasty, bronze inscriptions tended to be linear and the strokes were neat and symmetrical.

4. Xiao Zhuan: Li Si arranged and simplified Chinese characters according to the writing norms of Qin State, and promoted them throughout the country. This new font is called Xiao Zhuan.

5, official script: seal script strokes turn around. The symbolic meaning is obviously greatly enhanced. Small seal script is standardized, but it is inconvenient to write. A simple font called official script is very popular among the people.

6. Regular script: In the late Han Dynasty, official script evolved into regular script. The twists and turns have not changed, and writing is easier.

7. Cursive script: Cursive script is characterized by many strokes, simple structure and bold font.

8. Running script: Running script is a font between regular script and cursive script, which is simpler and easier to identify than regular script.

Second, about Chinese characters.

1. Origin: Archaeologists in China published a series of unearthed materials related to the origin of Oracle inscriptions in Yin Ruins. Jia Hu's engraving has a history of about 7762 years (128) after the physical determination of carbon 14. There are double pier carvings 7,000 years ago, Banpo pottery carvings 6,000 years ago, Qingdun site carvings more than 5,000 years ago, couplets of tomb sites, pottery symbols of Dawenkou, Zhu Wen of Taosi site in Yao and Shun era and water calligraphy of Xia site. Early Oracle Bone Inscriptions was rich in writing system, and later Oracle Bone Inscriptions was in the initial mature stage. These archaeological discoveries may be important clues to the origin of Chinese characters, or they may be different origins of the development of various characters.

2. In the early 1980s, more complete characters were found on the pottery unearthed from the Xia cultural site in Dengfeng, Henan. This is the earliest written language with exact time in China confirmed by scholars so far.

3. Introduction: Chinese characters are one of the oldest characters in the world, with a history of at least 4,000 years. The earliest recognizable mature Chinese character system was Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. Chinese characters gradually change from graphics to strokes, from hieroglyphics to symbols, and from complexity to simplicity. In the principle of word formation, from ideographic, ideographic to phonological. With few exceptions, they are all a Chinese character and a syllable.