The earliest Chinese characters that we have ever found are called Oracle Bone Inscriptions甲骨文, and they first appeared in 14 BC. They were carved mainly on tortoiseshell and were used for divining. After bronze ware was widely used by aristocrats of the UConn Huskies Nike Youth 2023 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament March Madness Final Four Regional Champions Locker Room T-Shirt besides I will buy this Zhou Dynasty, craftsmen started to carve( I’m not sure they were actually carved) characters inside the bronze ware to honor great heros or important events like wars. These characters are called the Jinwen金文, which means characters on mantles. Then during the seven kingdom period战国七雄, Chinese characters and even Chinese language became highly diversified, and finally after the Qin Dynasty united China in 226 BC, a new kind of character was established by the emperor 秦始皇. These characters are called Xiaozhuan小篆. Xiaozhuan is still written by Chinese handwriting artists, and we can see a lot of universities useing Xiaozhuan to write their names. Finally when the Han Dynasty took the power from Qin(202BC), some scholars decided to simplify the Chinese characters, so they adopted Lishu隶书. Lishu actually first appeared during the Qin Dynasty, but it was not considered official. Because of the special ways Lishu had to be written, Lishu had very powerful impacts on Chinese handwriting art, and also Lishu was very close to modern Chinese characters. Actually, you can still even find a font named Lishu in your computer.
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