China script has a history of 5000 years, but the early script is gone. The earliest script handed down today is Oracle Bone Inscriptions (Wen Jia for short) unearthed from Yin Ruins in Shang Dynasty. The so-called Oracle Bone Inscriptions, is carved or written on tortoise shells and ox bones. These characters have a history of more than three thousand years. In addition, many bronzes from Shang and Zhou Dynasties were unearthed underground, on which many inscriptions were cast, and they were called Zhong Dingwen. These two kinds of characters are also called "ancient prose" because they are the earliest characters that can be seen now.

Zhou Xuanwang Taishi Shuan once wrote Wen Zhuan (also known as Da Zhuan), and some forms of Wen Zhuan can also be seen in the interpretation of the text. After Qin Shihuang unified the whole country, Lisi played the same script, so Xiao Zhuan became popular. The book Shuo Wen Jie Zi is based on explaining Xiao Zhuan. After the Han Dynasty, writing became easier and easier, and official script became the common writing in the Han Dynasty. After Wei and Jin Dynasties, the font was changed to regular script, which was convenient to write and remained quite stable after transmission, and it has been used ever since. At the same time, for the convenience of writing, running script and cursive script also appeared, which are variants of regular script.