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Development of the Chinese Script On the basis of the available evidence, the earliest Chinese scripts, dating from the Shang Dynasty, are known as Jiaguwen (the oracle bone scripts) and Tongqi Mingwen (the Bronze scripts). Jiaguwen is the script inscribed or written on tortoise shells and ox bones. The devices of character formation known as xiangxing (pictographs), zhishi (indication), huiyi (ideograph) and jiajie (borrowing) are all complete in the Jiaguwen. www.fas.harvard.edu /~clp/China/develop.htm   (1291 words)

Chinese Playing Cards - Jiaguwen or Oracle Bone Inscriptions Jiaguwen is the earliest identified characters of China. There are about 4500 different Jiaguwen characters that have been discovered, among which nearly 1500 characters are identified. In this series, each card is printed with one or two or four Jiaguwen characters companied with their corresponding modern Chinese characters. www.orientalabels.com /product_info.php?products_id=329   (93 words)

Archaeologists rewrite history In China, early writing known as jiaguwen consisted of pictographic inscriptions on bone and tortoise shells. He carefully brushed off the dust, and on the lower middle part of the plastron was an eye-shaped sign, which greatly resembled the later jiaguwen pictograph for "eye" in the Yinxu oracle bones. Another plastron was incised with two vertical strokes, fairly similar to the character for "20" in the jiaguwen inscriptions found at Yinxu, said the research paper. www.clta-gny.org /originofwriting.htm   (1599 words)

Ancient Scripts: Chinese In fact, Jiaguwen and Dazhuan overlapped in time, and they might have been the same script but as they were inscribed on different surface types their visual styles differ due to the quality of the surfaces. Whereas Dazhuan characters still resemble Jiaguwen and hence somewhat "pictographic", Xiaozhuan characters are more linear, but have not attained the "angular" look of later Chinese scripts. This script has survived the passage of time and continues to be used in the present age in calligraphy and seals. www.ancientscripts.com /chinese.html   (1220 words)

Yuan Heng Li Zhen - Page 2 - I Ching Community Similarly, if you exclude alternative forms of the same characters, about 3,500 characters have been recorded on the oracle bones, but only 1,200 to 1,500 have been deciphered clearly enough to win general acceptance among "jiaguwen" scholars (jiaguwen is short for guijia shougu wenzi, "turtle shell and animal bone script"). Wilkinson says there are currently about 100 jiaguwen scholars in China, 50 in Japan, 20 in Korea, and in the rest of the world "no more than a handful." Moreover, their numbers are dwindling. You don't need to be a jiaguwen scholar to see the differences. www.onlineclarity.co.uk /friends/showthread.php?p=35308#post35308   (3444 words)

[No title] Some ancient oracular sentences, writen in former pictographic symbols (jiaguwen), are still present in the actual text. Discovered a century ago and still exhumed today, these jiaguwens are now dispached in many museums in china and around the world, and carefully studied. Archeological excavations on the site of Mawangdui in the 80's unhearthed a manuscript on silk of the earliest version of I Ching (among unknown or lost texts) in the tomb of the marquise of Daï, buried with its library. www.geomance.com /iching/webengp2.htm   (705 words)

Styles LanTing Xu While JiaGuWen and Jin Wen are no more useful and few people recognize them, the other scripts persist through the past 2000 years. The most popular for printing is Kai Shu, but the most useful for daily use is Xing Shu. The existence of the word "ten thousand" in JiaGuWen shows the advance concept of numbers at that time. www.asiawind.com /art/callig/callisty.htm   (313 words)

Archaeologists Rewrite History After studying the artifacts from a site called Jiahu, in central China's Henan Province, they have proposed that the pictograms inscribed onto animal bones and shells unearthed there predate the jiaguwen used in the Shang Dynasty (c. Everyday Zhang looked through the shells newly unearthed to see if there were markings. Up to 16 signs were found on 14 fragments of tortoise shells, pottery, bone and stone artifacts in the excavation. www.china.org.cn /english/2003/Jun/66806.htm   (1602 words)

script style evolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Of the several script styles, Table 3-1 (partly based on Qiu 1988: 28) shows eight that are important for our discussion: clan-name bronze, oracle bone, Zhou bronze, small seal, clerical, standard, semi-cursive, and cursive. The popular form during the Shang dynasty was the oracle-bone script (jiaguwen), whose characters were incised with a knife on hard bones and shells. Oracle-bone characters were either regular or irregular in size and shape, and were arranged either neatly or higgledy-piggledy on bones and shells. www.mmtaylor.net /Literacy_Book/DOCS/03.html   (482 words)

Applied Linguistics (Yuyen Wenzi Yunyong) No. 3 , Pages 105 -111   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) “Jiaguwen” (¥Ò°©¤å) is the earliest mature font system which has been found so far in China. This paper proposes a useful method for the automatic generation Jiaguwen outline font based on the characteristics of Jiaguwen itself. Some key techniques of Jiaguwen font generation are described in this paper, also some outline examples are presented to illustrate the efficiency of our font generation system. www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk /~ceric/lang/200400000003/0105.htm   (124 words)

phorum - Chinese Culture Forum at Asiawind - Chinese may have gone to Americas 3,000 years ago BEIJING (AFP-Jiji) New evidence showing similarities between ancient native markings in Central America and ancient Chinese characters has added fuel to theories that Chinese arrived in the Americas as early as 3,000 years ago, Chinese state press reported Thursday. Nearly 300 ancient Central American native markings collected by an American researcher show great similarities to ancient Chinese characters inscribed on animal bones or tortoise shells, known as "jiaguwen," from the Shang Dynasty 3,000 years ago, Xinhua news agency reported. The markings showed "great similarity" to Chinese characters expressing the concepts of the sun, sky, rain, water, crops, trees and religion and astronomy, it said. www.asiawind.com /forums/read.php?f=2&i=146&t=146   (292 words)

Paragon Book Gallery | Browse Subjects | China - Paleography Jiaguwen Tongjian 1: Xiangong Xianwang Xianbi Zhenren [A Concordance to Orcacle Bone Inscriptions Volume 1] Jiaguwen Tongjian 3: Tianwenqixiang [A Concordance to Orcacle Bone Inscriptions Volume 3] Jiaguwen Tongjian 5: Tian Lie [A Concordance to Orcacle Bone Inscriptions Volume 5] www.paragonbook.com /html/browsesubj/browse.cfm?regionid=5&subjectid=117&CFID=6448718&CFTOKEN=31459663   (490 words)

Participant/ Abstract   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) However, JIAGUWEN is not include into modern character coding system.This paper discusses the implementation of JIAGUWEN ‘display on web with the technology of SVG, SVG(Scalable Vector Graphic) is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics and graphical applications in XML and is recommended by W3C. SVG graphics are text-based and easy to create, It include some instruction to dictate viewer how to draw graphics. Our idea include two steps : the first step is to create svg file of JIAGUWEN, then insert it into web page, this work will help the people to communication by internet in same domain.The experimentation indicate the display of JIAGUWEN is very good. www.wenzi.cn /English/communication/05conference/abstract.htm   (644 words)

PixelPlates.com - Family History as It Happens - September 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) These characters are known as "Jiaguwen" and date from the Shang Dynasty, some 3,000 years ago, Xinhua News Agency reported. The markings showed 'great similarity' to Chinese characters expressing the concepts of the sun, sky, rain, water, crops, trees, and religion as well as astronomy. Xu was showing his work at a symposium in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, which marked the 1899 discovery of Jiaguwen at the ruins of the ancient Shang capital of Anyang. www.pixelplates.com /pixel.asp?PRN=6   (1928 words)

Gan Zhi (干支) - Stems and Branches - China History Forum, chinese history forum By Shang dynasty, the chinese calendary system developed to have the Tiangan combined with the 12 "Dizhi 地支" (12 Terrestrial branches) to establish the more formal system of Ganzhi. Ganzhi day inscriptions can be found on Jiaguwen. In fact, during the Shang dynasty (the reign of Wuyi 武乙), on one oracle bone inscription, it was found to have the complete Ganzhi cycle chart, and during that time they recorded "2 months as 60 days". www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=8330&st=15   (915 words)

Jiaguwen and the 3 Dynasties Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, research has shown that the Xia people lived mainly in west Henan Province and in south Shanxi Province. Archaeologists also resumed the once suspended work at Yinxu, unearthing palace foundations, bronze casting workshops, separate graveyards for the nobility and the people, as well as over 4,000 Jiaguwen or inscribed tortoise shells and animal bones, which offer some insight into the life of the Shang people. Recent excavations at Sanxingdui in Guanghan city, Sichuan Province and Wubeiling in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province shed light on the cultural links between the Shang imperial court ruling the Central Plains (i.e. chinatravelz.com /insight/things-insight/antique/pictographic-inscriptions/index.asp   (401 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) ¼×¹ÇÎıà Jiaguwen bian (Dictionary of inscrptions on bones). (Collection of Jiaguwen and Jinwen in the Shang and Zhou). ¼×¹ÇѧͨÂÛ Jiaguxue tonglun (An outline of the study of Jiaguwen). www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~whu/China/bib3.doc   (1209 words)

The oldest nation ever - Alternate History Discussion Board Those figures for China seem horribly bloated to me. The first Chinese dynasty, the Shang, which allegedly ruled from the 18th to the 12th centuries BCE, is semilegendary, and at any rate we don't get any texts in Chinese until the 12th century (the famous jiaguwen or Oracle Bone texts). As written languages go, that puts Chinese roughly in the same league as Hebrew and Aramaic (some would say that Hebrew predates Aramaic, and the archaeological evidence is older) and slighly older than Greek (if you don't include Linear B) or slighly younger (if you do). The Chinese used an ideographic system, which could be adopted and adapted for use by most analytical languages. www.alternatehistory.com /Discussion/showthread.php?t=19619   (2501 words)

Chinese Arts - Plastic and Graphic Art 造型藝術與書畫印刷藝術 - Calligraphy ... Modern calligraphers have the chance even to take oracle bone inscriptions and Han Dynasty writings on bamboo slips as their models. The oldest examples of what one could call "calligraphy" are the inscriptions of the oracle bones of the Shang Dynasty (jiaguwen 甲骨旇). These inscriptions came up during the 12th century BC and represent a fully developed script or writing system. www.chinaknowledge.org /Art/Calligraphy/calligraphy.html   (6831 words)

Health Partners.com Anmo has played an important role in the practice of medicine in China since ancient times. Archeologists, studying the inscriptions found on bones and tortoise shells used in divination practice, have found references to massage treatment for illnesses written in jiaguwen, the earliest extant form of writing in China, dating back to as early as the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th centuries BC). For example, on one such bone a question is inscribed: "Can the querent's abdominal pain be successfully treated with massage?" Another asks whether or not a certain female massage practitioner named Zao can cure an illness and thus should be sent for. www.health-partner.com /news.asp?ID=9   (3098 words)

Did the Xia Dynasty exist? - China History Forum, chinese history forum I had the impression that most of the jiaguwen came from the end of dynasty, which might explain the absence of stories on the Xia. The oracle bones do list ancestors going back many generations, but I'm not sure how far. According to the French sinologist Jacques Gernet, the oracle bone records are from the period 14th century BC to the 11th century BC, i.e. www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=10186&st=15   (2252 words)

Keltic Seafaring - Science Articles at ArticlesArchive.net In a recent issue of 'The Numismatic' magazine, and at a meeting of the American Friends of Tunisia Association in May 1999, he interpreted a series of puzzling gold coins of that period as depictions of the known world, including a land mass to the west of Spain. According to the Xinhua Chinese press agency last August, similarities between nearly 300 markings found on pottery, jade and stone at unspecified ancient native sites in central America closely resemble 3,000-year-old Shang dynasty characters for the sun, sky, rain, water, crops, trees and stars inscribed on animal bones or tortoise shells, known as Jiaguwen. American and Chinese pictographs in 56 matching sets were shown to senior academics at a symposium in Anyang, former capital of the Shang dynasty. science.articlesarchive.net /keltic-seafaring.html   (1938 words)

Among these Black populations developed the major ancient Civilizations of Africa Asia and Europe First of all the Xia and Shang did not write in fanciful signs like the Jia Gu Wen script. The guwenzi or 'ancient script' of the Shang and Xia was called jiaguwen 'the oracular and divinatory' writing. It was incised on hard material like bone and shells. www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Bay/7051/Southchina1.htm   (6670 words)

Vases HQ : Antique Chinese Vases Welcome to SumidaWare.com - The First study of Sumida Ware. Le jiaguwen, le guwen, le dazhuan et le xiaozhuan: tous les styles subséquentsd'écriture chinoise en dérivent. Learn about the origins of Talavera a type of majolica earthenware, a white andglazed type of ceramic. vaseshq.com /antiquechinesevases/index.php   (847 words)

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