Where are the earliest Chinese characters in the language question

The earliest Chinese characters were unearthed.

Yikong translation, in Shaanxi ** Society. From 1 a.m. to 2:36:40 a.m. on 30 October 2006

Archaeologists have found inscriptions on pottery bearings (potter's wheels) dating back 4,500 years, which are the earliest examples of written language in China. These pottery fragments, found in the ruins (ruins) of an ancient city in Huaiyang County, Henan Province, are believed to be part of a spinning wheel.

The photograph shows a fragment of a black pottery bearing (potter's wheel) with white strokes. The pieces come from half of a circular spinning wheel, centimeters in diameter and centimeters in thickness. The inscription resembles the shape of the Bagua script, an octagonal diagram that embodies basic philosophical concepts in ancient China[1].

According to Li Xueqin, an archaeologist at Tsinghua University in China. "The discovery of inscriptions on spinning wheels testifies to the discovery of the ruins of Pingliangtai[2] and may be one of the cradles of Chinese civilization." Zhang Zhihua, director of the Pingliangtai Ancient City Museum, said he accompanied a team of journalists from an archaeological magazine in May to find debris near the Pingliangtai site.

When I picked up the pieces and saw the inscription, I was very excited because I knew it could be an important discovery," Zhang said in the report.

Prior to this discovery, the earliest known Chinese characters were inscribed on bones or turtle shells – the famous oracle bone inscription – which was buried in the royal tombs of the Shang Dynasty 3,000 years ago. They form the content of the oracles obtained by divination by means of godly divination. These writings on the bones are one of the oldest forms of writing in the ancient world, similar to those of cuneiform writing in the ancient Near East (Middle East), as well as hieroglyphs from ancient Egypt, experts say.

Chinese characters were first formed in the Shang Dynasty and were oracle bone inscriptions.

1. Chinese writing first appeared in the Huangyan Jinhe River Basin. Writing is a way and tool for human beings to record and express information with ideograms to pass on information for a long time. Modern writing is mostly a tool for recording language.

Human beings often have oral language first and then produce written words, and laugh at many small languages, which have language but do not have words. The difference in writing reflects the different ways of writing and thinking of countries and nations. Writing has brought humanity into a civilized society with historical records.

2. According to the phonetics and glyphs, the characters can be divided into epigraphs, phonetic characters and phonetic characters. According to phonetics and morphemes, it can be divided into phonemic scripts, syllabic scripts and morpheme scripts. Epigraphs are hieroglyphs of early human native scripts, such as:

Ancient Egyptian scripts, cuneiform scripts of the Lianghe River Basin, ancient Indian scripts, Mayan scripts from the Americas, and early Chinese characters.

3. Yiyin characters are composed of pictographic symbols and phonetic sounds, Chinese characters are phonetic characters evolved from phenomorphic characters, and Chinese characters are also morpheme characters.

The earliest carved symbols date back more than 8,000 years.

In recent decades, the Chinese archaeological community has released a series of excavated materials related to the origin of Chinese characters earlier than the Yinxu oracle bone inscriptions. These materials mainly refer to the carved or painted symbols that appeared on pottery in the late primitive society and the early historical society, and also include a small number of symbols engraved on oracle bones, jade, stone tools, etc. It can be said that together they provide a new basis for explaining the origin of Chinese characters.

The origin of Chinese characters.

From the ancient legend of Cangjie to the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions more than 100 years ago, generations of Chinese scholars have been working to unravel the mystery of the origin of Chinese characters.

Regarding the origin of Chinese characters, there are various sayings in ancient Chinese literature, such as "knotted rope", "gossip", "pictures", "book deeds", etc., and the legend of the Yellow Emperor's historian Cangjie making characters is also widely recorded in ancient books. Modern scholars believe that a systematic writing tool cannot be created entirely by a single person, and that Cangjie, if there is one, should be the compiler or promulgator of the text.

From "knotted rope", "gossip", "pictures", "book deeds", etc., to gold texts and stone drum texts. Then to the big seal and the small seal (the same text as the book of Qin Shi Huang). and then to the official book, regular script. 5,000 years of splendid culture has been passed down by the means of writing.

Chinese characters are evolved or created by humans.

It was probably developed from ancient witchcraft symbols.