Editor's note: This is the "Primary School History Textbook" published by Shanghai Zhonghua Book Company during the Republic of China, which is the first volume of high school textbooks. Very rare and worth reading. Now the original text of "The Ancient Civilization of the Chinese Nation - Writing" is collated, and many examples in this article are combined with ancient history, and are specially reprinted and shared to facilitate everyone's learning.
The ancient civilization of the Chinese nation - writing
The story of the time of the Yellow Emperor, according to legend, there is another important thing, which is the invention of writing.
It turns out that in ancient times, people conveyed meaning only by language. But language can only talk to the person in person, and cannot convey it to people in different places and times. Some important things are often forgotten after that, which is very inconvenient. Later, although some people invented the method of using rope to remember things, they never remembered it. When he arrived at the Yellow Emperor, a man named Cangjie saw that birds and beasts had walked on the mud ground, and there were many footprints that would not be destroyed for a while, so he thought that the memory of our human beings could also be applied with a symbol. Then he drew shapes according to what he saw and made many symbols. For example, the symbol for a bird is □, the symbol for a fish is □, and the upper and lower symbols are 亠 for □. Because these symbols were similar to pictures, later generations called him hieroglyphics.
Later, the number of people became more and more widely used, and his number increased repeatedly, and the form also changed frequently, and slowly became the current text
【Description】
1. This article is purely a personal study and sorting note, original restoration, for reference only, the picture source is the "Xiaoxie History Textbook" and the Internet of the Republic of China in 1933 in the Western calendar;
2. The main source of the data is the "Xiao Xie History Textbook" of the Republic of China in the Western calendar in 1933, and the oracle bone text in the article is difficult to type, and it is temporarily replaced by □, and the specific reference picture is specified. Inherit the excellent traditional culture of the motherland and learn the spirit of Chinese culture;
3. The time is only based on the 22nd year of the Republic of China and the 1933 node of the Western calendar, and do not participate in various debates now, welcome to learn and exchange.