In the ancient Babylonian civilization, Western scholars believe that 5200 years ago, the Sumerian tribes located in the Two Rivers Valley invented the world's earliest script, and also invented the "mud plate book" used to write writing, so the text that appeared in ancient Babylon was called "the world's earliest script" by Western scholars, followed by the ancient Egyptian script, more than 4,000 years ago, ancient Egypt derived the script based on pictures and patterns, that is, the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt, about "writing" In fact, this historical civilization that has emerged is also very controversial.
As we all know, the earliest Chinese character is the oracle bone, the oracle bone was discovered by the antique dealer Wang Yirong in 1898, and then the archaeologists studied and deduced that the oracle bone is more than 3,000 years ago, the Shang Dynasty used to sacrifice, divination time on the tortoiseshell text, oracle bone is the earliest known system of chinese script formation, why is it currently known? Because history is endless, history is a process of overthrowing again and again, and reshaping again and again, there is no earliest, only earlier.
The discovery of Oracle has had a very profound impact on Chinese history. However, it is worth pondering whether there are other texts before the Oracle, or the product of the evolution of other scripts at the time of the Oracle. The answer is yes, and archaeologists have already discovered such writings. In 1987, archaeologists found a set of oracle bone inscription symbols in the Ligang cultural site in Henan, according to experts, this belongs to the GuaXiang script, which is the earliest chinese script prototype known as jiahu inscription, which is 4000-5000 years earlier than the oracle bone.
The site is so large that archaeologists have found that the site is a primitive social site that belonged to 8,000 years ago. So here the found text quality is more than 8,000 years old. Experts also found that this type of writing and oracle bone and its similarities, archaeologists have determined that the role of the word, principle, tools to determine this type of text is the prototype of the oracle bone. This is the earliest text in China! A piece of oracle bone more than 3,000 years ago shocked the world, so what about a large piece of oracle bone prototype more than 8,000 years ago?
The history of this script is even older than what Western scholars recognize as the "world's earliest writing" that appeared in the ancient Babylonian civilization 5200 years ago. China's historical origins are far more than five thousand years!