Wen, Wen, from Xuan Congyao. The phenomena, lines and tracks produced by the information of everything in the world describe the running tracks and principles of Yin and Yang in things.
Therefore, text is a symbol. In ancient times, runes were integrated.
Fu, the king of the ancient world, began to draw gossip and write calligraphy contracts instead of knot politics, which is the reason why literary books were born. -"Preface to Shangshu"
According to the class pictogram, it is called Wen. After that, the form and sound benefit each other, that is, the word. -preface to Shuo Wen [1]?
When Cang Xie made books, he formed words, and words were audible. -general theory of ancient and modern times
(1) pictogram. The word Oracle Bone Inscriptions is like a crisscross texture. "Wen" is the radical of Chinese characters. Original meaning: pattern; Texture.
(2) with the original meaning [figure; Vein]
Text, pronounced in English as text, article, etc. Literally, it can be understood as articles and characters, which are closely related to all kinds of characters and glyphs appearing in various literary works at home and abroad. In ancient times, there were Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions and Xiao Zhuan. Now there are Song Ti and Kai Ti. All these highlight the importance of "Wen" in this respect. At all times and in all countries, people have different understandings of "Wen". From a big perspective, it can be used to represent the cultural history of a nation. From a small point of view, it can be used to represent a word "Wen", a paragraph or a character's surname.
This is the evolution of the text
There are also various fonts of text.