Ancient Written Language 古代书面文字

Ancient Written Language Chinese is a pictograph. Very old characters were like drawings to represent the meaning. Although modern Chinese is much more abstract, some characters are still like pictures, such as 火，水，凹，凸，山，林，etc. Most very ancient characters were very complicated to write.

Very Ancient Characters Were Like Drawings                                                                                                                                                  Very Ancient Characters Were Like Drawings

Ancient Written Language During thousands of years, Chinese characters kept changing and there were many versions of characters in history. In ancient time, Chinese people engraved language on bone, bamboo or other hard things with knives, which made it necessary that the written language is very concise. Written language and Speaking language were two separate systems, which was unique in the world. 甲骨文http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/N3a087qpeBg/ 中华文明五千年 （夏和商）http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKbgzW3yZHk (5’ to 7’30”)

A Version of Ancient Written Language - 甲骨文

Still 甲骨文…

Another Version of Ancient Written Language – 金文

Icons of Ancient Written Language Style that was used for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing