Who invented Japanese writing?

In ancient Japan, there was a language but no writing. Although modern comparative linguists regard Japan as belonging to the Ural-Altai language system in terms of phonology, grammar and vocabulary, historical records should be taken as the official introduction of Chinese character sinology to Japan. During the reign of the God Emperor (around the end of the third century AD, that is, in 248 AD, Wang Ren sailed from Baekje to Japan and presented ten volumes of the Analects and one volume of the Thousand-Character Classic, which marked the beginning of the introduction of Chinese character sinology to Japan). Later, as time went by, to the middle of the eighth century, the Japanese began to use the radicals of Chinese characters in regular script to form katakana, and then used the radicals of Chinese characters in cursive script to form hiragana, for the purpose of noting the pronunciation of Chinese characters and marking Japanese phonetics. At that time, kanji were called male characters, while kana was called female characters. Japanese scholars say that Kibi Mabei wrote katakana and Kobo Daishi Kukai wrote hiragana, but neither of them can be trusted. At best, the two of them may have combined their masterpieces. After Chinese characters were introduced to Japan, they were not only used by the public to record historical facts, but also used by ordinary scholars to write books, and became the only official writing system in Japan at that time. However, there are two ways of reading Chinese characters in Japan: training reading and phonetic reading. The former is the original language of Japan, while the latter is the sound imported from China. However, the pronunciation is divided into Han pronunciation, Tang pronunciation and Wu pronunciation due to differences in time and place. After the introduction of Chinese characters to Japan, it not only promoted the progress of ancient Japanese culture, but also contributed to the emergence of Japanese characters called katak and hiragana. Although since the early 9th century AD, due to the establishment of Japan's so-called "national style culture", most books have been written in Japanese characters (kana), but Chinese characters dropped to the early Meiji period and have been used by public officials to record events. Formal text.

Chinese characters were passed down to Japan by the defeated Wuyue people who fled to Japan in the late Spring and Autumn Period

Before this, Japan was in the Jomon period, with no writing and no kings, and knotting ropes to record events

< p>After the Yayoi period, Chinese characters began to be used, and rice and bronzeware were cultivated