The evolution of Chinese characters is a book for studying the evolution of characters. This book selects 500 commonly used Chinese characters. Each character lists nine types of characters, including pottery characters, oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, large seal characters, small seal characters, official script, regular script, cursive script and running script. The small numbers in the inscriptions on gold are replaced by the characters of Zhou or Warring States Period. After more than 6000 years of changes, the evolution of Chinese characters is: oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, small seal characters, official script, regular script, running script, cursive script. The evolution of Chinese characters can be summarized into five stages: sound, shape, image, number
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