The Attempt To Discussing The Primitive Character Attribute Of Marks On Potteries In Neolithic Age

Pottery depicted marks that unearthed from many areas of china in the Neolithic Age spread generally last long time. Their shape is plentiful.They have the feature of ideographs.Pottery depicted marks are related to the late mature Oracle-bone Inscriptions in different aspects, it is important link of researching about ancient writing and origin of Chinese character.To classify and sort the pottery depicted marks and research much significance of the marks is important and worthful for moving the reach of prehistoric culture, conferring the regular and development of the origin of the Chinese character and enriching the theory of ancient writing.Directed by the theories of semiotics,Historical Geography subject and general linguistics, the author puts pottery depicted marks unearthed from Chinese scope in order, then classifies, analyze and describe them.In this process, the author analyzes the culture background and characterization materials of the marks how to influence the marks'shape. At the same time, we will see that there are some relationships among different character marks that their significance and shape permeated with each other. There are many kinds of relationships between the pottery depicted marks and Oracle-bone Inscriptions.The author made a table about Pottery depicted marks after arranging them in the end of the paper.The paper is divided into seven chapters:Chapter one, the author summarizes other scholar's viewpoints, brings up the paper's theory basis and confirms the definition of the pottery depicted marks in this paper. Chapter two, the author explains the contents and value for arranging the marks in some aspects.Chapter three, the author divides the marks into three periods in historical point base on history and geography subject which are the ahead Yangshao culture, the Yangshao culture and the Longshan culture. Then, the author divides the marks into drfferent districts in geography point in every period. Different history periods and geography districts make the marks various.Chapter four, the author analyzes the important possible religion significance of the marks in the primitive thought viewpoint because the thinking way of primitive thought and concept may influence the meaning and shape of the marks that said we can't explain the meaning of marks only from shape in modern thought viewpoint. Chapter five, the author puts the many marks as example to explain the function of the pottery that marks depicted on, the different places on which the marks depicted and so on may influence the meaning of the marks that are distinctions between original marks and mature characters.Chapter six, the author puts the Shuangdun marks as example to explain the tradition of the Chinese character using combination to express meaning continue. Chapter seven, development of society and culture determine the development and sudden change of the marks and direction of characters trendy.After developing for a long time, pottery depicted marks appear differentiation gradually under the influence from natural and artificial cause. The separation between the shape and function make the shape of some marks abstract or disappearing on the one hand, on the other hand it gradually makes the shape of some marks complex, appearing a lot of combination styles. With the developing of society and culture, the shape and function of the marks that become complex gradually approach to the Oracle-bone Inscriptions, then the marks become one of many origins of the Chinese character.