1. As a hieroglyphic system, Chinese has experienced a long evolution process, which can be divided into: depicting things, standardizing appearance, simplifying structure, and combining with each other to form more complex characters.
  2. Font evolution of Chinese characters: Oracle Bone Inscriptions, seal characters, official script, regular script, running script, traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters
  3. Now Chinese characters are no longer simple pictographs, but they retain some of the characteristics of pictographs and some phonetic characters.