Why Chinese history began to be recorded in writing during the Xia Dynasty

Judging from the current 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.

There was no written text in the Xia Dynasty that was directly handed down, so there are few ancient documents about the social development of the Xia Dynasty, and many of them are vague.

The Xia Dynasty, the first hereditary dynasty recorded in Chinese history books. The Xia Dynasty is generally considered to be a state in the form of a tribal alliance, while Chinese Marxist historiography characterizes the Xia Dynasty as a slave state. The "family world" in Chinese history began with the establishment of the Xia Dynasty.

The Xia Dynasty was the first dynasty in Chinese history, according to historical records, from the Tang Dynasty, Yu Dynasty to Xia, Shang Dynasty, and the Third Dynasty were all divided into feudal feudal eras, and the emperor and the princes divided and ruled. There are a certain number of bronze and jade ritual vessels in the cultural relics of this period, so its culture and civilization level is higher than that of the late Neolithic culture.

As the first slave dynasty in Chinese history, the founding king was the son of Dayu, who turned the primitive society clan alliance into a family and a private world, which promoted the transformation of Chinese society and the historical process. Written records have to appear in the Shang Dynasty, that is, oracle bone inscriptions, the Xia Dynasty period or rope carvings or primitive patterns to record history, Henan Province and Shanxi Province, as well as Hebei, Shandong around the Xia Dynasty ancient city wall ruins and cultural relics.

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.

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).