中国文字起源试探

A research on the Origin of Chinese Characters

汉字中，甲骨文并非中国文字之开端。偃师二里头遗址中的陶文，是夏代文 字，其中许多可以与甲骨文、金文相对应。二里头文化陶文结构复杂、简繁并存，故还不是 最早的中国文字。距今约6300年—4200年的新石器时代晚期，一些陶器上的刻划符号，已脱离了原始图画的范畴，具备了文字的性质和特征，这才是汉字的源头。

The bone-shell inscripions can't consider to be the origin of Chinese characters. The inscriptions on pottery discovered at Erlito Ruin in Yianshi(Luoyang of Henan), are character s used in Xia Dynasty, most of which are in accordance with bone shell inscriptions and inscriptions on ancient bronze objects. These pottery inscriptions had complicate strcture and both simplified and complicasted from. Therefore, we also can't consider these pottery inscriptions as the origin of Chinese characters, At later New Stone Age(4200 to 6300 years ago),some engraved symbols on the pottery were quite different from the ancient picture and had the feature and chara cteristic of Chinese character, which can be considered to be the origin of Chin ese characters.