符号文字发展轨迹探微——杨家湾遗址与半坡遗址符号文字之比较

Development of China′s Ancient Characters and Marks

大溪文化杨家湾遗址中发现了 170余种符号文字 ,这些符号文字上与半坡遗址发现的一些符号文字有相同和相异处 ,下与甲骨文时代的文字和其他符号也有相同与相异之处 ,将三者分别进行比较 ,可发现符号文字在新石器时代中演变发展的几个阶段 ,即符号文字的笔画走过了“直笔———方折笔画———圆弧曲笔”三个大的历程。

More than 170 characters and marks were found in Yangjiawan Ruins in Daxi culture.These characters and marks have something in common with those of Banpo Ruins,and are a bit different from those.Meanwhile,they have some similarity and differences with the inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th cetury B.C).The author compares these three characters and marks and finds out that characters and marks experienced three stages in New Stone Era.