In the period of the Yellow Emperor, as more and more humans multiplied and people cooperated and interacted more and more, people had to have a way to record what they had experienced. At that time, there was no writing. They recorded things. You can only remember things by knotting. If there is a big event, tie a big knot, a small knot with a small knot, a special knot with a special thing, and a related knot with a related thing. Later, when personnel exchanges became more and more frequent and complicated, the knot marking was no longer sufficient, so I used a knife to carve a shape on wood or bamboo as a symbol. These symbols are probably pictographic. Later, there were more and more famous things, some symbols could be drawn, and some complicated ones couldn't be drawn at all, so this pictographic symbol alone was not enough!
There is a historian who specializes in keeping records beside Huangdi. His name is Cangjie. He was given the name of Shi Huangshi by Huangdi, which means the official family who is responsible for recording historical facts! As the full-time recorder of Huangdi's side, he naturally felt more inconvenience and pressure when faced with the most primitive way of knotting and drawing and remembering things. So Cangjie asked Huangdi for his order and traveled around the world to find a better way to record things. !
On this day, during the cruise of Cangjie, I came to a place called Yangxu Mountain in the south. When I passed the water of Xuanhu next to Yangxu Mountain, I suddenly saw a big turtle. The color of the turtle's back is red and there are many greens growing on it. Cangjie looked at the pattern and found it very magical, so he took the turtle back to the camp, and studied the turtle's back all day. One day, he suddenly realized that the pattern on the turtle's back is not a manifestation of the text, look at the above. The horizontal and vertical lines, arranged in different ways, are not just the text codes for different things? This surprising discovery made Cangjie excited immediately, so he began to follow this line of thinking, looking up at Kuixing's roundness in the sky, overlooking the elephants of the mountains and rivers, watching the activities of birds, beasts, insects and fish, and the shapes of plants and tools. Combining the hieroglyphs carved on bamboo and wood before, they were tracing and painted to form characters in various shapes. Legend has it that on the day he created the characters, corn suddenly fell from the sky, and the ghost wailed in the night. It turns out that the gods of the heavens are worried that once people have learned to write, they will all go into business, speculation, and abandon farming, causing famine. The ghost is afraid that after people have learned the words, they will be impeached to check and balance them, so they cry at night. There are other legends that it is a rabbit who weeps at night. Because rabbits are afraid that people will use their vellus as a pen after they learn to write, which will endanger their lives, so they cry at night! However, in any case, after this text was created by Cangjie, there is no reason to destroy it!
After Cangjie created the text, he lost the thought of cruising. He led his entourage back to the capital overnight, because he still had a lot to do. He needed to re-record the historical facts recorded by the knot in the past through the text invented by himself. ! This is the origin of Cangjie's writing, and it is from this era that my Huaxia has an orthodox and written orthodox history for 5000 years!
