River Workers' Teacher Class ｜ "Dalong Talk" Episode 30: Is Oracle more vivid than Jin Wen?

Is Oracle more vivid than Jin Wen?

As we all know, Oracle is the earliest Chinese character, and Jin Wen is born closely, then people naturally feel that Oracle is the original appearance of Chinese characters. Oracle should be more pixels than Jin Wen, but it is not.

In fact, Oracle is a vulgar character used by the people, and it is not orthodox, and Jinwen is the orthodoxy character recognized by the official. Oracle was originally used for divination, and the tools used were bronze knives and turtle armor bones; Jinwen used a brush. And it is not easy to use a bronze knife to engraved on the oracle bone. In order to reduce the difficulty of the engraving, the clever ancient people change the round characters to the square of the square, and the thick characters are changed to the form. of. On the other hand, although the birth time is relatively late, it is more pixels than Oracle, and the late Western Zhou Dynasty's family name Jin Wen also exerted the pictograph to the extreme, which is very in line with people's imagination of Chinese characters.

If we do not know how to change the passage, it is difficult to see the nature of the matter. We should combine the background of the times at that time so that we can better restore the historical appearance.

Let's continue to feel the charm of Chinese characters with Teacher Sun Weilong!

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