Did China have writing during the Xia Dynasty?

About a century ago, in Anyang, Henan Province, China, there was a major archaeological discovery, which was the discovery of Yin Ruins and oracle bone inscriptions. Since then, the study of the history of the Yin Shang dynasty in China has entered a new period. According to Chinese paleographers, the oracle bone inscription is "the earliest and relatively complete script that can be seen so far".

It is already more complex, and more than 3,000 words have been found, including nouns, pronouns, verbs, auxiliary verbs oracle.

Adjectives and other categories, and can also form a narrative of more than 170 words. Therefore, scholars affirm that the oracle bone inscription is by no means the initial stage of our Chinese writing, and that there must have been a long period of development before it.

In other words, the earliest writing in China began around the Yin Shang dynasty, and it is estimated that there was no formed writing during the Xia Dynasty. There are just some monotonous symbols that represent simple meanings.

I don't know if it's the Xia Dynasty, but I know that the earliest Chinese writing is the oracle bone inscription, which was mostly excavated in the Shang Dynasty. The oracle bone inscription mainly refers to the Yinxu oracle bone inscription, also known as "Yinxu script" and "Yin Qi", which is the text engraved on the tortoiseshell animal bone in the Yin Shang era. After the fall of the Yin Shang dynasty and the rise of the Zhou dynasty, the oracle bone inscription was used for a period of time.

There may be, but the existing physical materials have not found a more mature Xia Dynasty script, the unearthed pottery of the Erlitou cultural site has more than 20 kinds of carved symbols, suspected Xia Dynasty text, but not deciphered, in addition, there is a saying that the descendants of the Xia Dynasty are the Yi people of Sichuan, so the current Yi script may have a relationship with the Xia Dynasty text, and China currently has a real history that can be examined is the late Shang Dynasty, represented by the oracle bone inscription.

So far, no archaeological evidence has been found for the existence of the Xia Dynasty (the earliest written record in China is from the Shang Dynasty).

The Xia Dynasty should have used a certain amount of text, but it was mainly dotted and folded. Words should originate from the ideas of the I Ching, and from the forms of nature. Physical records are not fundamental, and prove that they belong only to the material world. The humanistic world is derived from understanding, and the so-called study of evidence is only a supplement rather than a fundamental.

The Xia Dynasty actually had a script, but this script was different from ours, it was an oracle bone inscription at that time. Because the Xia Dynasty belongs to the Yanhuang period, the earliest text is the legend of Cangjie word-making, archaeologists after research, the original text materials after sorting and screening, the history of human word-making, from the beginning of human beings, learned to use symbols to chronicle, the method of this chronicle is the earliest text, this method is earlier than the Xia Dynasty, first the chronicle symbols, then murals, oracle bone inscriptions, gold inscriptions, seal characters, official scripts, regular scripts, etc. It is said that Cangjie created 28 characters, which even the later Confucius and Mencius could not recognize.

From this, we can know that the Xia Dynasty already had a written language, which was an early oracle bone inscription, and the oracle bone inscription was more mature in the Shang Dynasty.

The oracle bone inscription is the earliest mature Chinese character at present, and the Chinese character or Chinese script that is earlier than the oracle bone inscription has not yet been discovered. Writing had to be systematic, able to accurately record language, and some of the earlier carved symbols of the oracle bone inscriptions could only be made into symbols (some scholars believe that they were pictorial characters or literal paintings) rather than actual words.

The oracle bone inscription belongs to the late Shang Dynasty (commonly known as the Yin Shang period), and there are no physical characters found in the early and middle Shang Dynasty, which is difficult to conclude whether it is the evolution of the text itself or the luck of archaeological excavations.

In general, Xia should be there, and it's hard to say whether there are mature words or not.

In fact, there are rules to be found in this question, Chinese characters originated from pictograms, and it must have been a simple and rough object image at the beginning. The earliest unearthed pottery decorated with fish-shaped inscriptions is said to be the first form of hieroglyphs. Before agricultural production was formed, there was no surplus of human material.

Even if there is a small surplus, for a long time, the exchange is all barter, its record. The form of counting is a simple drawing of the shape of the object. The number of pieces is expressed in the stroke (modern uneducated people also see the use of the stroke method).

The ancestor of Chinese writing, Cangjie (Hou Jie), was said to be a historian of the Yellow Emperor, and there was a theory of making characters at that time, and the later Xia was directly connected with the Shang who discovered the oracle bone inscription, and the lack of discovery of its writing may be related to the lack of a long-term preservation of the text carrier. Yellow river. The Loess Plateau is the root of the ancestors' activities, cave dwellings and earth cliffs that can be seen everywhere.

Will the earthen wall be a natural vehicle for recording or carving!

There was writing in the Xia Dynasty, because at the end of the primitive society, writing appeared in China, and the Xia Dynasty existed after the primitive society, so there must have been writing.

Of course, the Xia Dynasty had writing.

The Shang Dynasty had a large number of oracle bone inscriptions. Words are created after being inspired in life and labor practice, and there is also a process of improvement and promotion before being finalized. Therefore, it is impossible for words to appear in large numbers overnight, and there is a long process of accumulation.

Writing should have existed a long time ago in the Xia Dynasty, where there was a process of prosperous development, and in the Shang Dynasty, it reached an unprecedented level of prosperity.

The Xia Dynasty should have written words, and it is mature, or Zhou Chao can remember so many details of historical events just by listening to legends. King Wen of Zhou's Book of Changes is not inherited from memory, the formation of words should be the accumulation of thousands of years of time continuity, such as Xia is the founder of Emperor Yan, there should be written archaeological discoveries in the southeast, Chinese civilization originated in the East, this should not be made up for good sound, Xia after it, without this historical basis, the ancients will not have to make it up.

In the historical records, there are written records about the Xia Dynasty** understand. It is also necessary to continue to conduct archaeological research to discover the civilization of the Xia Dynasty in order to understand the origin of the Xia Dynasty's writing.

China has a summer calendar, but not a business calendar. Therefore, there must be a Xia Dynasty. Shang has a text cast in Ding, so Xia must exist.

Where there is writing, how to communicate without writing, how to pass it on, each dynasty has its own culture and writing.

There are a large number of Xia Dynasty characters on the bronzes, but they don't know them, and the scholars don't believe that their civilization is so high, which is the problem!

It's suspicious again. Chinese characters were invented in the time of the Yellow Emperor, and the early Xia Dynasty was a thousand years old. Do you say that the Xia Dynasty has writing? The upper half of the Xia Dynasty is a pictogram, which means a country with writing.

There should be no doubt that "Lianshan Yi" is written in words, so it is logical that the Xia Dynasty has words.

Where did Oracle come from?!

Whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway.

The Xia Dynasty had writing.

Judging from the archaeological excavations, the Xia Dynasty script has not been clearly confirmed to have found written materials about the Xia Dynasty. But there are all kinds of indications that the writing of the Xia Dynasty existed. Domestic scholar Ma Heshan believes that the official script handed down from generation to generation in the Xia Dynasty is Xia Seal.

These scripts exist mainly in the form of oracle bone inscriptions. The oracle bone inscription of the Shang Dynasty is already a fairly complete script, and the so-called "six books" of traditional philology are mostly available in the oracle bone inscription, which is an important sign that the development of its writing has entered a mature stage. The development of writing is a long historical process, and the appearance of the Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscription will never fall from the sky, and it should be preceded by its evolutionary process.

Therefore, in the pre-Shang era, the Xia rulers, who had a higher degree of civilization than the Shang people, should also have the invention and use of writing, which is in line with the law of the occurrence and evolution of writing.