This paper briefly describes the historical evolution of ancient applied literature in China

The oldest application script in China is the oracle bone inscription "divination".

The embryonic period of the application text was the Yin Shang period. The earliest application in China can be found in the oracle bone inscription of the Shang Dynasty more than 3,500 years ago"Divination"。The Yin people often engrave the name of the diviner, the things asked by the divination, the day of the divination, and the results on the tortoise shell or animal bones used, and occasionally a small number of accounts related to divination.

The earliest application in China can be found in the oracle bone inscription "Bu Ci" of the Shang Dynasty more than 3,500 years ago. Yin people divination, often the name of the diviner, the matter asked by the divination, the divination day, the result, etc. are engraved on the tortoise shell or animal bones used, and occasionally a small number of records related to divination are also engraved, this kind of record text is commonly known as divination.

A complete divination has four parts: preface (narrative, narrative), proposition (chastity), divination, and verification, and the engraving time is different. The preamble records the time of divination and asks the name of the divination person of the gods, which plays a narrative role, so it is also called narrative and narrative.

The proposition records specific divination matters and asks questions to the gods, also known as chastity. The divination results are recorded in the divination process, which is the answer given by the sorcerer to analyze the gods based on the cracks in the bone armor.

Ever since the advent of writing, human beings have been carrying the activity of writing with them. The earliest writing of mankind began to solve various practical needs. In terms of the purpose of writing, it can be divided into two categories, one is literary writing and the other is applied writing.

Literary writing is mainly used to express the author's subjective emotions, reflect social reality, and is artistic creation for people's appreciation, such as poetry, **, drama, prose, etc., and applied writing is written for official and personal affairs, and is used to solve practical problems. People often refer to the writing of applied articles as applied writing.

The application text first originated in the Yin Shang period, and "divination" was the earliest due text. Later decrees and customs clearance documents were all practical texts.

During the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, the reform of applied writing began, requiring the use of vernacular for writing documents for the first time, and a new standard for punctuation.

Practical essay is a kind of literary style formed by human beings in long-term social practice activities, and it is a tool for people to transmit information, deal with affairs, and exchange feelings. With the development of society, people have more and more frequent interactions in work and life, and things are becoming more and more complex, so there are more and more functions of application literature.

(d) Wenxin carved dragon.

Wenxin Carving the Dragon is an ancient literary theory work. Author: Liu Xian. The book was written in the second year of the reign of Emperor Xingyuan (501 502) of the Southern Dynasty Qi and Emperor Zhongxing.

It is the first literary theory monograph in the history of Chinese literary theory and criticism that has a rigorous system of "big body and thoughtfulness" (Zhang Xuecheng's "Literature and History, Poetry and Discourse"). During the Wei and Jin dynasties, there was a great development in Chinese literary theory. By the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, a prosperous situation was gradually formed.

The rich experience accumulated in literary creation and literary theory criticism in its historical development has not only prepared the conditions for the emergence of Wenxin Carving Dragon, but also has been reflected in Wenxin Carving Dragon.

The earliest written record period in China is the oracle bone inscription of the Yin Shang period, and the traditional saying is 3,500 years ago.

But the earliest writing on Earth is the Sumerian cuneiform script 5,200 years ago.

Both cuneiform and sacred scripts have died out in the dust of history, but the oracle bone script has evolved into modern Chinese characters, becoming the only ideogram in use in the world to this day.

According to the latest research by archaeologists, the history of writing mentioned above may have to be rewritten, and the world's earliest writing may have originated in China. Some time ago, Ningxia discovered a script that was earlier than the oracle bone inscription.

In a large number of independent rock art groups found in the Damaidi field of Zhongwei, Ningxia, the oldest pictorial writing in China was found thousands of years earlier than the oracle bone inscription. At present, the research results have been verified and verified by Mr. Liu Jingyun, an expert in paleographies, and it is finally believed that the discovery of rock paintings in Damaidi has the potential to rewrite the history of Chinese writing.