Ancient Symbols Carved On Pottery And Origin Of Chinese Characters

When was the origin of Chinese characters? How does is come into being? This is the historical problem for human beings which is focused on by writing, archeology and many other disciplines. It will be very significant for us to understand nature and the development of Chinese civilization if we discovery the mystery of origin of Chinese characters. Characters now have been documented the real history by Oracle which is traced back to the Shang Dynasty Three thousand years ago. But after checking its number and structure of Oracle, it is already a mature language. So there should be a long process of development in prior Oracle. Therefore we must move forward the origin of Chinese characters in order to identify and determine the germination and development process.Firstly, we try to find clues about the origin of Chinese characters by Chinese legends. We see that the rope knot, said gossip origin, or Cangjie characters sayings and Hetu sayings, have given us a direction to explore that character as a record of Chinese symbolism in its form The process may Carve a stage notes, because these symbols can record the number of simple or complicated. Chinese characters are as a record of the language which is consistent for noting.Provided along the ancient myth useful enlightenment, we compared unearthed ancient carved symbols with Oracle, found that these carved symbols are similar with Oracle. They also have a systemic character and succession of moment nature which is not random aimlessly carved. They are very close to the current nature of ancient Chinese characters which proved that they are a most likely important stage before the Chinese system of mature.But this does not make us sure it is really true that characters formed during that period. So we pay attention to the minority Chronicle woodcut symbols which were the elements of Chinese civilization. By comparison, we found that there were a lot of plays in the carved symbols as notebook features by ethnic minorities in southwest China. This situation exists in many nations which was same with Han ethnic in early period. That's reconcile we generate such an idea– compare two things for analyzing Chinese origin, as a circumstantial evidence.We Compared carved symbols on archaeological pottery with Oracle by vertical and horizontal methods and also combined with wood notes southwest minority symbols. And then, we speculate on its origin and the relationship between the characters comes to sprout in the early Neolithic Age, and conclude in the late period in Xia Dynasty.