Who invented writing? How did the pronunciation of those words come about? Why do you pronounce it?

The origin of language is more complicated, Marx said that it is produced by human beings in labor, there are onomatopoeia, gestures, contracts and so on.

As for the matching of characters according to the language, the various languages are different, and the Chinese language is mainly pictographs, which are mainly developed from pictures.

For example, pig, the traditional Chinese character is pig, it is a shape and sound word, the left shape and the right sound, the ancient ** as a pig, the oracle bone character shape, like the shape of a pig. That is to say, the pronunciation of zhu was the first to give this pronunciation the word pig.

Writing originated from pictograms, and China's Dawenkou culture as early as 5,000 years ago had the earliest written text found in China recognized by the historical circles". It is a pottery inscription that is engraved with this symbol on many pottery vessels. Some experts interpret it as "Dan", that is, the holy fire is lit on Mount Tai to worship the sun rising from the east.

Recently, some scholars have interpreted it as "Jiong".

However, this kind of family emblem script, which only appeared in the Dawenkou culture period, was only used as a symbol of the tribal totem for people to worship, and there were no characteristics of Chinese characters at all. Perhaps the text of this system has long been lost. The earliest known prototype of Chinese characters in use today is the oracle bone script.

At present, there are three places with the largest number of oracle bone inscriptions in China: first, Xiaotun, Anyang, Henan; the second is the site of Zhouyuan in Shaanxi; The third is the site of the historian in Huantai, Shandong. Among the three sites, the number of oracle bones in Xiaotun, Henan Province is the largest, but the age is already the late Shang Dynasty; A large number of oracle bones were also found at the Zhou Yuan site, but it was as late as the late Shang Dynasty to the early Western Zhou Dynasty; The oracle bone inscription produced by the historian of Huantai in Shandong Province is the late Yueshi culture, although the number of words is small, and it is not released, but it is earlier than the oracle bone produced by Yinxu in terms of age.

From this, we can infer that the Chinese character system was probably formed in Shandong and gradually spread to other regions. However, if the writing system has been established and has a relationship with the inheritance of modern Chinese characters, then it must have its original pronunciation. And now we need to study the origin of the pronunciation of Chinese characters and how they evolved into what they are today.

In ancient Chinese, there were no more than five basic sounds: guttural, tongue, dental, dental, and labial, but there was no nasal sound. These are the five basic sounds of antiquity that phonographers have summarized.

From this, it can be seen that the language of our ancestors is nothing more than these 5 categories of pronunciation. This is determined by the physiological characteristics of a human being or a particular race.

In ancient China, the phonetic pronunciation of difficult characters was generally carried out by means of straight pronunciation and comparison. That is, they use the sum of a word with the same sound as a difficult word to use a word with similar pronunciation as a reference to explain the phonetic way in which the pronunciation of a certain character is similar to that word.

The limitations of this phonetic method are great, and it is impossible to encounter difficult words with strange pronunciation. Probably at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a reverse cut. That is, use two words, take the initials of the first word and the finals of the second word to phonetic.

Of course, it's much easier to take two monosyllables to label a word. However, no method of ancient phonetics can fully explain the laws of ancient pronunciation. Therefore, we will not discuss the problem of reverse tangent and ancient phonetics here.

To study the pronunciation of Chinese characters, it is necessary to trace their origins. First of all, we have to talk about whether Chinese characters have pronunciation or words first. Actually, this question does not give a definitive answer.

However, if we expand our horizons to the whole world, it is not difficult to find that almost all ethnic groups have their own languages, but only a small part of them really have written languages, and those who have their own national languages are large and powerful countries. The small tribes, on the other hand, kept only their own language, not writing.

From this point, it seems that we can understand that human beings have language before writing. However, it is impossible to know whether there are special circumstances.

Writing was gradually invented by the majority of ancestors in production and life, and writing is a symbol that records language. It is a carved symbol that stays on the material in order to facilitate future generations to learn and inherit. At first, the text was only a depiction of symbols, and had no real literal meaning, but in the later development, it gradually formed a corresponding relationship with the corresponding language, and the text was formed.

1. There are many hieroglyphs that simply depict the shape of things with lines, such as "pig" oracle bone inscription, which is a picture of an animal called "pig".

2. Words with relatively virtual meanings are represented by rigid symbols, such as "one" oracle bone inscription, which is represented by a horizontal one.

3 After the relative development of writing, there were morphophonetic characters, that is, one part of the text was used to represent the meaning and the other part to represent the pronunciation.

At first, the pronunciation problem was simply stipulated and had no meaning, but in the later development, the pronunciation of Chinese not only inherited the pronunciation of ancient Chinese, but also absorbed the pronunciation of foreign nationalities, such as modern Mandarin Chinese, which is a hybrid of Chinese, Manchu and Mongolian. The real Old Chinese pronunciation should be Hakka and Meixian dialects in Guangdong. Of course, for modern Mandarin, it sounds like a foreign language.

In ancient times, there was a legend that Cangjie made words, in fact, it should be the ancients who invented the word in the process of labor, Cangjie made induction and statistics, and made it circulate, but the words at that time were still very confusing, the expression and pronunciation of various countries and places were different, and later Confucius adapted the text again in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the text basically had a unified cognition.

The pronunciation of characters is gradually unified in the process of character development, and it should be different at the beginning. There is no clear statement as to why this pronunciation, you should have learned the concepts of pictographs and phonetic characters when you were a child, hehe.

The pig, originally called a pig or a pig, is a pictogram that resembles the shape of a pig. Later, the name dolphin or pig was born.

The phonetic alphabet was invented by the Egyptians.

Before the Egyptians did not have the alphabet, they drew what they saw to represent it, so they created many pictorial characters. In order to facilitate writing, they chose more than 20 simple symbols instead of words, which is the Latin alphabet that can be pinyin, and the pinyin alphabet we use now is developed from the Latin alphabet.

1. Invented by Cangjie. The reasons are as follows: From historical records, it can be seen that in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period more than 2,500 years ago, Cangjie's character creation theory was already a common knowledge in the society at that time.

In modern times and since the annihilation, through the study of unearthed documents and the cross-examination of different materials, the credibility of China's ancient historical records is quite high.

2. For example, in the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty, the chronicle of the ancient history of the Wei Dynasty - the Wei history book "Bamboo Book Chronicle" was recorded by stealing and excavating the tomb of King Wei in Ji County (now Ji County, Henan, and Wei during the Warring States Period).

3. For another example, through the study of different materials such as oracle bone divination, the record of the imperial lineage of the Shang Dynasty in the "Historical Records of Yin Benji" is basically credible, that is, some traditional documents that have always been disdainful of historians for their words, such as "Five Emperors", "Imperial Lineage", "Classic of Mountains and Seas", etc., have also been proved to have the side of expressing facts.