What is the evolution of Chinese characters?

In fact, with the continuous improvement of the degree of clarity, more and more from the previous painting ideology evolved into more pictographic, in this process, it is also the standardization of Chinese characters caused by the continuous advancement of the first and the continuous change of the medium of writing, and finally formed the standard font that we now use, which facilitates the communication between and promotes the continuous development of the system.

A seal book regular script. The evolution of cursive Chinese characters (Shang) (Zhou) (Qin) (Han) (Wei and Jin) can be briefly summarized into five stages: sound, shape, image, number, and reason.

Chinese characters are mainly divided into three categories: pictographs, huiyi characters and morphophonetic characters. Classes and pictographs: such as " , chuan" and so on, all depict the shape of things.

These are pictographs in the narrow sense. The earliest origin of Chinese characters is in a hieroglyphic drawing used in a note, at that time, many people who study Chinese characters now do not say that they are Chinese characters, but say that they are a kind of picture, but under normal circumstances, the hieroglyphs at that time also used the concept of words to remember, so there is nothing wrong with calling it Chinese characters, so after thousands of years of evolution, oracle bone inscriptions appeared.

The order of evolution of Chinese characters:

Jiahu inscription - Shuangdun inscription - Banpo pottery inscription - Qingdun inscription - Zhuangqiao tomb inscription - bone inscription - Taosi Zhuwen - Xia Dynasty water script - oracle bone inscription (Shang) - Jin Wen (Zhou) - big seal (Western Zhou) - small seal (Qin) - seal script (Qin) - regular script (Three Kingdoms) - cursive script (Han) - Xingshu (Han).

1. Chinese characters have undergone more than 6,000 years of changes, and their evolution process is: oracle bone inscription (Shang) Jinwen.

Zhou) small seal.

Qin) Lishu (Han) Kaishu (Wei and Jin) Xingshu, the above seven fonts of "Jiajin Seal Licao Kaixing" are called "Chinese Character Seven Bodies."

1. Oracle bone inscription: The text written on tortoise shells and animal bones at all times in the Shang Dynasty is called "oracle bone inscription". Started from the Shang Dynasty.

2. Jin Wen: It is an inscription cast on bronze in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Also known as Zhong Dingwen. Jin Wen has thick and wide strokes, and the dot painting is round, and Jin Wen is more standardized than oracle bone inscriptions.

3. Great Seal: In the late Western Zhou Dynasty, the shape of Jin Wen tended to be linear, and the strokes were relatively neat and symmetrical.

4, small seal: Li Si.

According to the state of Qin. The text standard, the Chinese characters are sorted out and simplified, and the implementation is carried out throughout the country, and this new font is called Xiao Seal.

5. Lishu: The strokes of the seal script are round. The symbolism is clearly greatly strengthened. The small seal text is standardized, but it is inconvenient to write, and a simpler font is popular among the people, called Lishu.

6. Regular script: In the late Han Dynasty, official script evolved into regular script. There are no changes to the glyph knots, and it is easier to write.

7. Cursive: Cursive is characterized by joint strokes, simple knots, and unrestrained glyphs.

8. Xingshu: Xingshu is a font between regular script and cursive script, which is simpler than regular script and easier to identify than cursive script.

2. About Chinese characters.

1. Origin: The Chinese archaeological community has released a series of oracle bone inscriptions in the ruins.

Earlier excavated materials related to the origin of writing. The Jiahu inscription has been physically determined by carbon 14 and is about 7762 years (128 years) old; There are also 7,000 years ago Shuangdun inscriptions, 6,000 years ago Banpo pottery symbols, more than 5,000 years ago Qingdun ruins inscriptions, Zhuangqiao tomb ruins text with words into sentences, Dawenkou pottery symbols, Yaoshun era Tao Temple ruins Zhu Wen, Xia Ruin water book. The early bone inscriptions are rich writing systems, and the later ones belong to the initial maturity stage.

These archaeological discoveries may be important clues to the origin of Chinese characters, or they may be different sources of the development of various scripts.

In the early 80s of the century, in Dengfeng, Henan.

On the pottery excavated from the Xia cultural site, a more complete text was found. This is the earliest written language that has been confirmed by scholars to have an exact age in Japan so far.

3. Introduction: Chinese characters are one of the oldest scripts in the world, with a history of at least 4,000 years, and the earliest existing recognizable mature Chinese character system is the oracle bone script of the Shang Dynasty. In form, Chinese characters gradually change from graphics to strokes, pictograms to symbols, and complexity to simplicity. In the principle of word making, from the form, ideogram to shape and sound.

With very few exceptions, it is one syllable per character.

As an ideogram, most of the original forms of Chinese characters were quite complex, and in the course of thousands of years of use, Chinese characters have undergone a natural evolution from complex to simple.

The simplified approach roughly changes the figure into a symbol; deletion of redundant and repetitive marginalities; Replace fonts with complex strokes with simple strokes; Intercept a part of the original character to replace the original character, etc. The glyphs of Chinese characters have roughly gone through several forms of oracle bone inscription, Jin Wen, small seal, Lishu, Wei tablet, and regular script, as well as two auxiliary fonts, Xingshu and cursive.

As human social activities are becoming more and more complex:

Although the ancients further refined and complicated the "knotted rope chronicle", it was still more and more difficult to meet daily needs, so early writing began to appear, and compared with the relatively complete writing system of later generations, the "writing" of this period was more like some symbols.

A large number of pottery inscriptions and inscriptions have been found in China, such as the "Dawenkou pottery text" unearthed in the Dawenkou cultural site in Zhucheng, Shandong Province, which has been more than 4,500 years ago; Another example is the "Gaoyou Taowen" unearthed at the site of Longqiuzhuang in Gaoyou, Jiangsu, which is more than 1,000 years earlier than the oracle bone inscription and engraved on the inner wall of the pottery pot; Another example is the Banpo site unearthed in Banpo Village, Xi'an, which is engraved on the edge of the pottery bowl and has been more than 6,000 years ago. There is also the "Jiahu deed carved symbol" found at the Jiahu site in Henan, which is more than 4,000 years earlier than the oracle bone inscription of Yinxu in Anyang.

The evolution process of the 10 Chinese characters is: oracle bone script, golden script, big seal, small seal, official script, cursive script, regular script, and line script.

Oracle. This is the text engraved on tortoise shells and animal bones in the Shang Dynasty.

Clementi. This is the Shang and Zhou dynasties engraved on the bronze Wen Liangpin Li character, also called "Zhong Dingwen".

Seal script. This is the common script of the Qin Dynasty, also known as "Qin Seal".

Lishu. This was a common script in the Han Dynasty. It began in Qinwei and followed to the Three Kingdoms.

Regular script. This is a font that began to appear in the early Han Dynasty and has been in use to this day.

Books. It is a font between regular script and cursive script, which has been popular since the Three Kingdoms and Jin dynasties.

Chinese characters have been developed for five or six thousand years, and about a quarter of the world's people use it。Chinese characters have made a great contribution to the history of culture. Over the past few thousand years, the shape of the Chinese character has evolved many times.

In the history of Chinese writing, the Xia, Shang, and Third dynasties are the most important in terms of their contributions to philology. Shi Zhou Jingchi was the historian of King Xuan of Zhou, and he created a new style to make it simpler. The big seal is also known as the text, the seal, the book, and the history book.

Because it is made by Shi Zhou, it is called Zhouwen, and the big seal is scattered in the "Shuowen Jiezi" and various Zhongding Yi vessels collected by later generations. Among them, the stone drum text written by King Xuan of Zhou is the most famous.

The evolution of Chinese characters: oracle bone script, golden script, small seal, official script, cursive script, regular script, and line script, these seven fonts are called "Chinese characters seven bodies of failure". Chinese characters, also known as Chinese characters, Chinese characters, and square characters, belong to the morpheme syllabic script of ideograms.

The reason why human civilization has developed to this day is because human beings invented writing and language. The reason why Chinese civilization can be inherited to this day is due to the contribution of Chinese characters. In ancient times, people began to have simple lines carved on rocks or tree trunks based on the needs of life, such as route signs when going out hunting, or to remind someone that there was a trap in a certain place.

Over time, people depict more and more things, and the content is more and more abundant, so there are conventions and rules for a certain way of painting a certain thing, so that others can clearly distinguish, this is the most primitive hieroglyphs, saying that the text is actually a bit far-fetched, more accurate should be said to be pictures.

With the continuous progress of the primitive tribes, people are no longer satisfied with the direct communication earlier than Biku, and begin to have a demand for indirect communication, such as the connection between the two tribes, the demand for this indirect communication is increasing, and many exchanges and things need to be written down, so there are a lot of hieroglyphs similar to stick figures, and sentences that can express the meaning of a specific hand sparrow have begun to appear.

The evolution of Chinese characters can be divided into the following stages:1Oracle period (14th century BC - 11th century BC):

The oracle bone inscription is a kind of writing in the Shang Dynasty, mainly engraved on tortoise shells and animal bones, with simple shapes and rough pen trousers. 2.Jin Wen and Seal Book Period (11th century BC - 3rd century BC):

Jin Wen and Seal Script are important fonts of the ancient Chinese Liang Nai Pure Duan Variety, Changyu Jin Wen is the Shang Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty engraved on bronze characters, and Seal Book is a kind of script in the Qin Dynasty period, with fine strokes and regular shapes. 3.Lishu period (3rd century BC - 3rd century AD):

Lishu is a kind of writing in the Han Dynasty, which evolved from the seal script, and the strokes of Lishu are clear and the straight lines are beautiful, becoming the representative font of Chinese calligraphy. 4.Regular script period (3rd century AD - modern times):

Regular script is the most common font in Chinese calligraphy, with regular shapes and clear strokes, and is widely used in printing and writing. In addition, there is also the evolution of various fonts such as cursive, line, and lishu.

Chinese characters are one of the oldest written languages in China, and its evolution can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty around the 14th century BC. The evolution of Chinese characters is very long and complex, and has gone through many stages and changes.

The original Chinese characters were hieroglyphs, that is, the meaning of an object or thing was expressed on the basis of an image. Over time, Chinese characters have gradually developed into different types such as ideographic, signifying, and morphophonetic characters, and many new glyphs and meanings have been gradually added. Over the course of its long history, Chinese characters have also been influenced by other cultures and languages, such as Indian culture and Western culture, which have had a profound impact on the evolution of Chinese characters.

In general, the evolution of Chinese characters is a very complex and diverse process, which not only reflects the evolution of Chinese history and culture, but also is an important object of linguistic research.