Evolution Of Chinese Characters

Chinese characters arose from pictures. We will want to learn to recognize the pictures within the pictographs. How shall we start?

Many of the modern Chinese characters have a very long history, and they have changed greatly over time.

There have been a series of well-defined, great shifts in writing style since the beginning. Each of these shifts has led to standardizations that have made writing simpler and more consistent.

This week, let us examine the major periods of writing styles over the long period of Chinese writing.