At present, the earliest writing in China should be the oracle bone, which has been recognized by the West and even the world, but in fact, in addition to the oracle bone representative, a considerable number of other scripts have been unearthed in Chinese archaeological activities. For example, in the era after the extinction of the dinosaurs, there have been many overlords above the earth civilization, and what these hegemonic eras rely on to rule, it is difficult to convince people without words and civilization. And the same is true from the importance of writing to the record of civilization, our country has unearthed archaeological fossils from millions of years ago, why can the time of writing be limited to the Shang Dynasty 3500 years ago?
The oracle bone was not recognized at first, and it is said that there is such a text in the history books, but foreigners believe that China did not, and believe that the earliest history of China should be the early Western Zhou Dynasty. It was not until later that a large number of oracle bones were unearthed in Anyang, Henan, which had the words of the Shang Dynasty on them, and a large number of foreign scientists came to China to study and collect, and finally had to admit that China did indeed have the Shang Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty era.
In fact, this kind of thinking should be wrong, foreigners are not the Chinese race in the first place, and they have been a backward stage before the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty of Chinese civilization, and Chinese have been the pioneers of world civilization for thousands of years. It was in the late Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty that foreigners fell behind, at this time foreigners grasped the world initiative, the right to speak was in their hands, so sometimes the truth had to be buried when they did not recognize, this time to borrow a sentence from Zhuge Liang is that we should not be vain and thin.
Oracle bone can only be said to be a relatively mature script in China's ancient history, but it is definitely not the oldest and longest script, according to the classification of the words unearthed in China's ancient history, there are hieroglyphs represented by oracle bones, as well as the early symbols of 8,000 years and 10,000 years ago. In the history of China, the earliest text unearthed by archaeology should be the JiaHu inscription, which is relatively mature, and has a history of more than 8,000 years from today's modern society, but it has not been recognized by foreigners.
Foreigners think that this is not a text, this is just some paintings in prehistoric human beings, but from the perspective of inheritance, this text belongs to the symbolic text, there are some stroke orders in the Chinese characters, and many features have the shadow of the oracle bone, some scholars in the study think that the Jiahu script should be the predecessor of the oracle bone, but the problem comes again, the Jiahu script is eight thousand years ago, and the oracle bone is at most more than three thousand years ago, more than four thousand years in the middle, what happened to China's ancient history? Can words span four thousand years at once?
In line with the principle that the order of historical inheritance should be gradual, it is impossible for these thousands of years of writing history to be interrupted at once, so Chinese script archaeology should continue, not just such a simple definition. Later, through the accidental excavation of many archaeological histories, the four thousand years of writing in the middle did not appear, but earlier words appeared, which did not originate from the Central Plains, the center of our traditional civilization, but from the relatively remote Yi living area.
These Yi people lived in the southwest of today's China, including the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. Archaeologists define the excavated texts as "Yi", the history of these words should be ten thousand years ago, and the history of the Yi people is quite long, it is said that in the Warring States Period, many of the symbol carvings on bronzes were painted by the Yi people. Because the Yi script and language have always coexisted, the culture of this ethnic group and the culture of the Central Plains are a sense of mutual export.
There is a great difference between the Yi script and the hieroglyphs in the Central Plains, but it is more like the Cheo-gram in the Western script, but from the archaeological history of the West and the Middle East, there is no such early script, so some Chinese scholars have put forward the historical view that the Western script originates from the Chinese Yi script from the perspective of time, which once proposed not only caused an uproar among Chinese historians, but also made many scholars who advocated the origin of Western civilization greatly dissatisfied.
In their hearts, they have always believed that Western civilization has created a modern industrial society, but how can such a backward barbarian nation as the Yi people be the place of origin of the writing of advanced Western nations? The debate over this statement continued until the beginning of this century without any results, but it triggered more young people and the older generation of history majors to take the initiative to study philology, to study what kind of era the oldest Chinese script lived in, and later under the study of most people, part of the veil of the Yi script has been lifted, and a charming civilization has unfolded in front of us.
After years of research, the famous old experts among historians have put forward such a story of the formation of ancient characters, first of all, the Yi script is a script of the same origin as the Chinese characters, which is part of the large system of Chinese characters, and in the ancient period, the number of human beings is increasing, and the needs of managing the tribe, through pictograms, explanations after everyone can understand the state of this kind of writing, but the formation of the Yi script is relatively early, ten thousand years ago, the translation of many Yi characters is underway, It hasn't been fully deciphered yet.
Today's Chinese Yi script is very widely distributed, some are distributed in the Yi area is on the stone, some recorded in the Han literature, and some in some of the old Wizards of the Yi can not understand the ancient books, these materials if the number of books according to the preliminary calculation of the number of books is also more than 120,000 volumes, today's work is the need for someone to sort out these Yi script system, and finally through the computer way to store, so that it can be circulated forever. But this job is hardly wanted to be done among young archaeologists today, and it is widely believed that it is not profitable.
These Yi text archives contain various contents such as military wars, shaman sacrifices, doctors' medicines, ceremonial systems, and people's lives, which are of great significance to the study of The Yi culture of the Branches of Chinese culture, whether from that point of view, the civilization contained in the Yi civilization is very advanced in ancient times, and civilization can regard Ancient China as a state of competition for the dominance of civilization in the Central Plains. In the end the Yi should have been defeated in today's southwestern region.
The history of the Yi people after the defeat of the Yi people because of the remote location is relatively long- and preserved, and some of the contents translated today, the Yi script actually wrote the history of human evolution from apes to humans, this record coincides with Darwin's theory of evolution, but there is no record of this in other texts, for the emergence of this result, many experts believe that the ancestors of the Yi people personally experienced this process, and then passed it down by word of mouth in Yi. It's also possible that super civilizations showed them this process.
The last conjecture is that in the process of studying civilization, the ancestors of the Yi people saw a lot of apes through the developed and primitive ecosystems in the southwest region, and then combined their own physical characteristics to propose this result. The Yi people who lost the Central Plains not only lost to the southwest, but their civilization center should have begun to live with the ancestors of the Chinese people in the Kunlun Mountains, a small part of them went south to the southwest, and some of them went north or west, and the part of the Yi people who advanced toward the west began to give birth to the earliest Sumerian civilization in the Middle East.
The best for the in-depth study of the Yi script should be Professor Liu Zhiyi of Zhuzhou Institute of Technology in Hunan, China, he said that the Yi script has a history of at least 9,000 years, and if you add the initial creation and evolution stage of the Yi script, it is not too much to say that it is ten thousand years, and the earliest Sumerian script in the Middle East today is only 5000 years, the oracle bone is 3500 years, and the Jiahu script is 8000 years, so if you calculate it, the Yi script should be the big brother of the world's writing, and it is not too much to say that he is the originator of the text. Unless you find earlier text.
We say that the Western alphabet originated from the Yi script, this statement is actually from the Yi script itself writing method, the Yi script is easy to find the writing of the Western alphabet, and with the rock script on the Italian peninsula for four thousand years, the line script of Greece three thousand years ago; ancient India claimed to be four thousand years old Sanskrit, these words have the shadow of Yi, even the Hunan Pengtou carved characters unearthed in Recent Years in China; the Earth Bay scale symbol on the land of Gansu, The 4800-year-old writing on sanxingdui bronze artifacts is an evolution of the Yi script.
In general, the Western script from the timeline and the similarity between the text, the Western script originated from the Chinese Yi script is no problem, but this statement is bound to be strongly criticized by Western historians, but also by some domestic adherence to the Western civilization-centric theory of opposition, this is also no way to do things, many people since the end of the Qing Dynasty have been accustomed to kneeling to handle diplomacy, used to kneel to do academics, for their own national civilization is not confident, will have today's results, from the Yi language a variety of archaeological evidence , we can see a complex and varied timeline of text transmission in ancient times.