There are many pictographic characters, such as the word "wine". Remove the three points of water and it is like a bottle without wine.

The word "Sun" is like a circle with a little bit in the middle, which is very similar to the form people see when they look directly at the sun.

It is worth mentioning that the original shape of Chinese characters belongs to hieroglyphs.

Although modern Chinese characters still retain the characteristics of hieroglyphs, they have evolved for thousands of years and are far from the original image.

Therefore, morphemes that do not belong to pictograms, but to express the ideology system.

In addition, the "head font" and "geometric" of Mayan characters are also the same.

However, hieroglyphs have great limitations.

Because some physical and abstract things cannot be drawn, their limitations become great.

Therefore, after pictographic characters as the basis, Chinese characters developed into vocabulary characters, and other methods of creating characters were added.

For example, the cognitive meaning in the Six Books refers to events, form, phonography, reposting, and borrowing.

However, these new ways of creating characters must still be based on the original pictograms.

It is mainly composed of pictograms as the basis, stitching, reducing or adding or deleting symbols.

The words on the palm-sized stone slab in front of me must be hieroglyphics, but they are not similar to the oracle bone inscriptions that Chen Wenzhe knew.

Needless to say, it is definitely not a domestic oracle bone inscription, and it seems that it is not unearthed in China.

However, this is still hieroglyphics, because hieroglyphics are easy to recognize.

And Chen Wenzhe could see that these hieroglyphs should be very old.

They are closer to ancient rock paintings, while redundant is more like hieroglyphs formed later.

However, these are indeed not rock paintings, they should be text.

Of course, if you don’t know how to do it, watching this kind of thing is similar to watching rock paintings.

After all, hieroglyphs develop from primitive pictures, and no matter how they evolve, they will never leave their roots.

Therefore, based on Chen Wenzhe's knowledge, he could also see that these are all hieroglyphs.

"This is a bit like the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt."

Soon, Chen Wenzhe was sure that this might be a stone slab from ancient Egypt.

Because many such things have been unearthed in ancient Egypt before.

Especially the very ancient rock paintings, many unearthed in Egypt, are very close to the eucalyptus on this stone slab.

The original rock paintings of ancient Egypt are very old.

Although these rock paintings are not as old as European rock paintings, they are passed down for a long time than Oceania rock paintings.

Even many times are over 10,000 years, making it one of the longest-lasting regions in the world with rock paintings.

It is not difficult to determine the rock paintings of which place, or the hieroglyphs of which area are based on the style art, the color of the stone dirt, the types of animals they represent, the types of clothes and weapons they represent, etc. It is not difficult to determine the pictographic characters of which area.

For example, rock paintings from ancient Egypt can be divided into four periods according to their style.

The first is the ancient buffalo period, about 9000 BC to 3500 BC.

The second stage was the period of shepherding bulls, about 3500 BC to 1500 BC.

The third is the Horse Period, which dates from about 1500 BC to the 2nd century AD.

The fourth period is the camel period, which began around the 2nd century.

The divisions of these four periods are very distinctive and directly determine the productivity and combat effectiveness at that time.

The Sahara petroglyphs in Africa are located in the Alger Plateau in central Sahara, not far from the border between Algeria and Libya. They are recognized by scholars from all over the world as "the largest prehistoric art museum in the world".

In comparison, the pictograms of stone slabs in Chen Wenzhe’s hands are closest to African civilization.

However, hieroglyphs are fundamentally pictures.

Therefore, it is necessary to really strictly distinguish it, and it has similarities with rock paintings or hieroglyphs in other regions.

For example, the hieroglyphs of the Ancient Yin Three also originated from the development of pictures and are mainly distributed in the hilly areas of the Vendia Mountains in the central Yin Three.

The world's most ancient rock paintings can be traced back to the late Paleolithic period 20,000 years ago.

Discovered all over the world, and the styles are different.

According to the style, Yin Sanyan paintings are roughly divided into naturalistic rock paintings, mainly depicting individual wild animals, and their shapes are simple and realistic.

Stylized rock paintings begin to extract lines from color blocks, and use simple and heavy lines to outline the outlines of people and animals.

Or it is a silhouette-style flat painting, and it is used together with a shallow drawing of thick lines.

The animals are more realistic, while the characters are graphic and geometric.

Eclectic rock paintings, mostly depicting horse riding, elephant riding or walking and metal use.

The most important thing is that the ancients attached great importance to the wild beasts they tamed.

Therefore, no matter which area the rock paintings or hieroglyphs are inseparable from animal shapes.

For example, the Dawenkou culture, which is a cultural site that is one of the important remains of the late Neolithic Age.

It was named after the Dawenkou site in Tai County, Qilu. Its distribution range is bordered by the Bohai Sea in the north, Jiangsu and Anhui in the south, and Nanhe in the west.

It started in 4300 BC and developed into the Longshan culture around 2500 BC.

The pottery characteristics of Dawenkou culture are obvious, and the custom of tooth extraction during adolescence is prevalent among residents.

The social economy of Dawenkou culture has developed to a high level.

At least many of the scribed symbols that have been discovered are considered to be the predecessors of hieroglyphs.

From the animal bones and pottery unearthed later, the eucalyptus on the stone tools can be determined that ten thousand years ago, half-image pictures and pattern symbols appeared in my country.

Of course, there are also many animal-shaped rock paintings and characters.

Let’s talk about the hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt, there is still a big difference between this and other hieroglyphs.

Even very ancient pictograms similar to rock paintings have their own characteristics of civilization.

For example, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs developed through paintings and patterns tens of thousands of years ago, and were formed into a system around 4000 BC (6,000 years ago).

In other words, the hieroglyphs of this period separated from rock paintings and became real words, which are the characters of holy books.

Like Sumerian, ancient seal trilogy, and my country's oracle bone inscriptions, it is independently produced from the simplest pictures and patterns of primitive society.

But this kind of text was originally just a graphic text, but later developed into hieroglyphic text.

Later Egyptian hieroglyphs were composed of three symbols: meaning, phonetics and radicals.

Ideo symbols are the concepts or definitions of some things using pictures.

However, ideograms cannot express the pronunciation of characters, so the ancient Egyptians invented phonological symbols.

Phonetic notes are also some graphics, with a total of 24 sub-sounds. On this basis, they form a large number of Gemini and Sanziyin.

For example, the mouth is a monophonic sound, and the sound of "y", the swallow is a Gemini sound, the sound of "wr", the beetle is a third son sound, and the sound of "hpr" sound, etc.

But these pronunciations all mean more than one meaning. In order to distinguish them, the ancient Egyptians invented radical symbols.
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