Knowledge expansion:
Chinese characters are one of the oldest characters in the world, with a history of over 6000 years. Physically, it gradually changed from graphics to strokes, from hieroglyphics to symbols, and from complexity to simplicity. In principle, word formation varies from form to meaning and from form to sound. Except for a few Chinese characters (such as Zi, Zi, Ya, Chi and I), they are all monosyllabic Chinese characters.
Before Shang Dynasty, it was a history of origin, while Jia Shu in Yin Dynasty was a mature period. Since then, there has been a series of evolution, especially in the Han Dynasty, official script has replaced seal script as the main font, and the development history of Chinese characters has separated from the ancient writing stage and entered the official script stage.
Regular script was basically shaped in Sui and Tang Dynasties, and it was artistically changed to "Song Style" in the books printed in Song Dynasty, followed by imitation Song Style, which is roughly the font we use today. There are many languages and characters of ethnic minorities, and their development types are different. For a long time, people of all ethnic groups have created the excellent written culture of the motherland.
About a century ago, there was an important archaeological discovery in Anyang, China, which was the discovery of Yin Ruins and Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Since then, the study of the history of Shang Dynasty in China has entered a new era. According to Chinese ancient philologists, Oracle Bone Inscriptions is "the earliest and relatively complete writing that can be seen at present".
It's quite complicated. I looked up more than 3 thousand words, including nouns, pronouns, verbs, auxiliary verbs and adjectives. , you can also form a narrative of more than 170 words. Therefore, scholars affirm that Oracle Bone Inscriptions is by no means the primary stage of Chinese characters. Before it, there must be a long period of development.
The written language of a country expresses and carries the culture of a country and a nation. The written language is inherited by the development of the nation and the national culture, and the nation and the national culture are also continued and developed by the inheritance of the written language. Chinese characters have been used for the longest time so far, and they are also the only characters in the ancient great civilization system that have been passed down to this day. Chinese characters are the main official characters in past dynasties.