The earliest characters in our country were called hieroglyph. Hieroglyph was a symbol system that recorded language by drawing pictures. It first appeared in ancient Egypt and ancient India. As time passed, hieroglyphic characters gradually evolved into other forms of writing such as phonograph and ideograph.
The earliest characters in our country are called oracle bones, which have a history of about 3500 years. Our country's written history is about 3500 years old since the late Shang Dynasty.
The earliest written language in China was hieroglyph, which appeared in ancient Egypt around 3600 B.C. This type of writing uses symbols to represent letters, each symbol representing a word or syllable. Hieroglyph was originally used to record language by drawing the shapes of objects or animals, such as drawing a dog symbol to represent the word "dog". As time passed, hieroglyphic characters gradually evolved into phonograms, which used symbols to express pronunciation.
The earliest characters discovered in our country were the oracle bone inscriptions of the Xia Dynasty. The oracle bone script was one of the earliest written records in China. It appeared from the 14th century B.C. to the 11th century B.C. It was a divination script used by the royal family and nobles during the Xia Dynasty. The writing method of oracle bone inscriptions was quite unique. It used tortoise shells and animal bones as writing materials. The content of the text involved politics, economy, military, culture and many other aspects. It had important historical and cultural value.
The earliest characters discovered in our country are the oracle bones of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. They first appeared in the late Shang Dynasty to the early Zhou Dynasty. They are the earliest forms of ancient Chinese characters. The oracle bone inscriptions were mainly written on tortoise shells and animal bones. It was a type of divination language and medical literature.
The earliest characters in our country were called hieroglyph.
The earliest characters in our country were pictographs, which were created by depicting objects or animal images. This kind of writing first appeared in the Shang Dynasty, such as oracle bone inscriptions and golden inscriptions. The inscriptions on the bones of tortoise shells and animals were carved into symbols, while the golden inscriptions were cast on bronze. These characters laid the foundation for the later development of Chinese characters.
The earliest written language in China can be traced back to the Xia Dynasty around 5000 B.C., when people used a writing method called hieroglyph. This type of writing uses patterns or symbols to represent different objects and shapes, such as the letter "S". During the Shang Dynasty, people began to use a method of writing called oracle bone characters, which used tortoise shells and animal bones as the main materials and used specific symbols to represent different words and sentences. The earliest dictionary in China was made by the oracle bones of the prime minister of the Shang Dynasty. It contains a large number of words and vocabulary, which provides great help for people to understand the language and vocabulary. With the development of history, the way of writing in China has also evolved and finally formed the Chinese characters and Chinese language that we are familiar with today.
The earliest dictionary in our country was the Zi Lin in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
The oldest text found in our country is ancient Egyptian, and its history can be traced back to about 3100 B.C. Ancient Egyptian was a type of hieroglyph that used boxes and lines to represent words and characters. The shapes and meanings of these boxes and lines could be traced back to the origins of ancient Egyptian civilization. The widespread use of the ancient Egyptian language promoted the development of ancient Egyptian culture and art, and it became one of the important legacies of ancient Egyptian civilization.
The earliest schools in our country were Chengjun School of the Xia Dynasty, Xiang Xuxue of the Shang Dynasty and Xu Xue of the Zhou Dynasty.