Expansion: Interesting Talk about Chinese Characters 174 Common ancient characters, introduce their evolution process, and make an easy-to-understand interpretation, so as to decipher the basis and intention of our ancestors to create Chinese characters and reproduce the ancient life picture of our ancestors.

Interesting talk about Chinese characters: every Chinese character is like a living fossil, telling people about the social life of our ancestors. In recent years, many people have begun to interpret Chinese characters from the perspective of culturology, decipher the basis and intention of our ancestors to create Chinese characters, and reproduce the ancient life picture of our ancestors. In fact, to truly understand the cultural meaning of Chinese characters, only by tracing and discriminating Chinese characters from this aspect can we truly understand the meaning and mystery of ancient Chinese characters.

Chinese characters are one of the oldest characters in the world and the most precious legacy left by our ancestors. Today, there are more than 56,000 Chinese characters, and there are more than 2,500 Chinese characters in daily use.

The earliest known Chinese character is the one carved on the tortoise shell with a knife-Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins. Xiaotun Village, Anyang, Henan Province, was the old capital of Shang Dynasty. Because Huan River burst its banks, many Oracle bones were washed away. People thought it was a keel, which was used as medicine to treat diseases. Later, a businessman named Wang became interested in these Oracle bones. He rushed to Henan to collect a lot and took it back to study.

Later some scholars named it "Oracle Bone Inscriptions". Ancient philologists have studied more than 6,543,800 pieces of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and found that the structure of Oracle Bone Inscriptions has changed from monomer to unity, and with pictophonetic characters, it has become quite mature. Among more than 4,600 Oracle characters, 1700 characters have been recognized.