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"Yingzheng, let me tell you, if you speak like that, it will be difficult for you to hear." Fuxi pointed at Qin Shihuang with a false finger, "It's not that I don't know how to read, it's because there was no writing in my era."

"Damn! Then you still don't know him." Qin Shihuang slapped his thigh, "How about I find you an e-book that can be read aloud."

"The technological development of future generations is really good!"

"That's fine." Fuxi nodded. He really didn't know words, so there was nothing he could do about it.

"You can ask the staff here to find you something to read in the past few days, and you can also try to create characters that belong to your era when you go back."

Fuxi thought about it, and thought it made sense.

"The beginning of civilization begins with the creation of tools, and the continuation of civilization begins with the creation of words."

"Do you know how writing develops?" Fuxi was a little curious.

"I know." Qin Shihuang nodded, then found a pen and paper, "I have studied it for a while."

"Then tell me about it." Fuxi also took the pen and paper, intending to learn.

"The first thing that appeared was the knot record. You are familiar with this, so I won't go into details."

Fuxi nodded. Indeed, he invented the knot notebook. Could it be that he is not familiar with it?

"Secondly, there is also Qi Ke Ji Ji, which was invented in your time."

"But both of these methods have a drawback, that is, they can only help remember something, but they cannot explain what it is."

"According to later generations, it is impossible to exchange ideas."

Fuxi agreed very much. He just tied a knot on the rope a few days ago, but he couldn't remember why he tied that knot.

It can only be said that it has a little effect, but not much.

Like the memory ball in "Harry", it can only tell you that you forgot one thing, but you have no idea what you forgot.

"Subsequently, people chose to use pictures to express ideas."

"For example, draw the shape of an object specifically to represent the object."

Qin Shihuang said that he drew a villain with a big belly on the notebook, and there was a smaller person in the stomach of the villain.

"Emperor Fuxi, look, can you understand what this means?"

"This, it means to conceive." Fu Xi said, "But your drawing is quite ugly."

Emperor Qin Shihuang:?

"I gave you popular science, and you attacked me personally?"

"Ahem, let's continue!" Fuxi changed the subject.

"This is called hieroglyphs, and there is a family called Naxi in later generations."

“The Dongba characters of the Naxi people are called living pictographs, the kind I just drew.”

"Pictographs are to use simple patterns to express a certain meaning." Fu Xi nodded to show that he understood.

"Then I will continue."

"Later, there were more and more pictures, and the meanings to be expressed became wider and wider."

"So people began to reduce the number of strokes in drawing, and gradually the words were separated from the pictures."

Qin Shihuang continued to write a simplified Chinese character "pregnancy" next to the villain in the painting just now.

"The text separated from the picture does not need to be realistically drawn, but only needs to be written out so that people can recognize it, so the original text is produced."

"Then what are these words recorded on?" Fuxi looked at the notebook in his hand and asked.

"It started off on murals, or animal skins, or slate."

"After that, oracle bone inscriptions appeared. In the records of later generations, the oldest Chinese characters that can be found are oracle bone inscriptions formed in the late Yin and Shang Dynasties around the 14th century BC."

"Oracle bone inscriptions are inscriptions on tortoise shells or animal bones, and are mainly used for divination or record keeping."

"Because oracle bone inscriptions evolved from pictures, they also belong to pictographs."

Qin Shihuang once again wrote and painted. For the study of oracle bone inscriptions, Qin Shihuang still has a little attainment.

"These words seem to have been simplified a lot." Fu Xi read for a long time, but couldn't accurately say the meaning expressed by those words.

"You're right. Although the oracle bone inscriptions that appeared at this time are also hieroglyphics, they have been greatly simplified."

"So it's normal that you can't understand it, and people in future generations can't understand it either."

"They also have scholars and teachers who specialize in oracle bone inscriptions."

Qin Shihuang remembered the fact that he came here for the first time, and helped those people translate a lot of materials.

"Why do you want to study this oracle bone inscription?" Fuxi was a little puzzled.

"Because they want to know what is recorded in these texts." Qin Shihuang explained, "They want to know what happened thousands of years ago, and these texts are the only way."

"So that's the case." Fuxi nodded. "And then what?"

"Later, with the emergence and popularization of bronze wares, in the Western Zhou Dynasty, people began to widely cast and engrave characters on bronze wares. Such characters are called {golden inscriptions}."

"This word looks harder to understand than those just now." Fuxi frowned.

"Haha, Emperor Fuxi, do you know why I can be called the first emperor through the ages?" Qin Shihuang looked at Fuxi in a good mood.

ah!To be proud of my title of Emperor of the Ages is to say it once!

"I remember it seems because you destroyed the six kingdoms and completed the great unification." Fu Xi recalled.

"More than that!" Qin Shihuang proudly wrote the word {Fuxi} in Xiaozhuan on the notebook, "and I unified the writing and weights and measures."

"That's what later generations said, the cars are on the same track, the books are on the same text, the degree is the same system, the behavior is the same, and the place is the same region."

"Expand and talk about the same text of this book!" Fu Xi was very supportive.

"After {bronze script}, there is the big seal script."

"Dazhuan is a Chinese font that transitions from ancient characters to Xiaozhuan."

"And Xiaozhuan was sorted out by a prime minister of our state of Qin."

"Compared to the big seal script, the small seal script has a concise, regular, and coordinated shape and structure, with even and round strokes, and certain variations and mergers of radicals."

"Compared with Dazhuan, the pictorial nature of Xiaozhuan has been greatly weakened, and the structure of each character has been relatively fixed."

"The book Tongwen I just mentioned is to uniformly require everyone to use the font of Xiaozhuan."

"In this way, no matter who records something, others can understand it."

"But this word still doesn't seem easy to learn!" Fuxi tried to imitate it, but it was still a bit difficult.

The strokes of Xiaozhuan are twisted and twisted, and if you don't pay attention, you will get the direction wrong.

"Indeed, so shortly after Xiaozhuan became popular, the folks created a new calligraphy style that is simpler and more stereotyped than Xiaozhuan, which is {Lishu}."

"The emergence of official script is an important milestone in the history of the development of Chinese characters."

"You can see from this comparison that the Chinese characters before Lishu were written with drawing-like lines."

"The Chinese characters after the official script are composed of strokes such as horizontal, vertical, apostrophe, dot, and fold."

"After the official script appeared, the structure of Chinese characters was basically fixed."