★ listed in the Excellent Books Recommended for Teenagers in the Summer of 2020 by Shanxi Provincial Press and Publication Bureau
★ The writing evolves in history, writes the history, carries the culture of each nation, and becomes the most important part of it.

We need to record the content of the language, and gradually we have writing.
This is the second revolution in human information.
The accumulation of knowledge and ideas in writing can make information travel far away, share it with others who have never met, and pass it on to future generations to educate them.
All kinds of strange writings represent different nationalities and cultures, and reflect different historical and geographical backgrounds.

Bi Jingwei has published works in High School Students Expo, Famous Quotes and Epigrams, Anhui Literature, etc., and his short story Spider was selected in Fiction Selection.

1 Fuxi, the king, is a bit of a god 1
2 Shennong and keeping records by tying knots 4
3 Cangjie, the historian of the Yellow Emperor 7
4 The poetic process of Cangjie’s invention of Chinese characters 10
5 Draw a talisman on the tortoise shell and animal bones—oracle bone inscriptions 13
6 Mao Gongding with a bumpy fate—inscriptions on ancient bronze objects (1) 16
7 Mao Gongding with a bumpy fate—inscriptions on ancient bronze objects (2) 19
8 Big seal characters: mysterious characters on the stone drum (1) 22
9 Big seal characters: mysterious characters on the stone drum (2) 25
10 Big seal characters: complex bird and insect writing (3) 28
11 Unified small seal characters 31
12 From official script to regular script 34
13 The maturity of regular script 37
14 On regular script (1) 40
15 On regular script (2) 43
16 I can't understand this kind of calligraphy—cursive script 46
17 The literati began to save trouble—running script 49
18 Chinese characters going abroad—changes in Chinese characters in Vietnam 52
19 Koreans have to write Korean characters 55
20 Japanese: we have no words so we borrow some (1) 58
21 Japanese: Chinese characters are too difficult to write, and the radicals are enough (2) 61
22 The origin of modern Western writing—Latin 64
23 “Stupid Pig”, “Silly Donkey” and “Hot Noodles”—French 67
24 Germanic languages 70
25 Not afraid to travel all over the world—English 73
26 Italian and Spanish among Romance languages 76
27 Portuguese—the relative of Spanish 79
28 Compared to the age of oracle bone inscriptions—hieroglyphics 82
29 The source of alphabetic writing—the Phoenician alphabet 85
30 Comparable to oracle bone inscriptions—cuneiform 88
31 Father of the Latin alphabet—Greek 91
32 Forward, Dawarich—Russian 94
33 Cyrillic Alphabets 97
34 Writing in the Qur'an—Arabic 100
35 The poor monk came from the Tang Dynasty in the east 103
36 Writings of American Indian Civilization 106
37 How I miss “her” 109
38 Chinese character riddles 112
39 Minority ethnic languages in China (1) 115
40 Minority ethnic languages in China (2) 118
41 Minority ethnic languages in China (3) 121
42 Minority ethnic languages in China (4) 124
43 Languages of Khitan and Western Xia 127
44 Chinese characters stories (1) 130
45 Chinese Character Stories (2)—homophonic 133
46 Simplified Chinese characters 136
47 A small game unique to Chinese characters—couplets 139
48 Rarely known knowledge of Chinese characters 142
49 There were almost only letters left—the Latinization of Chinese characters 145
50 Pinyin (1) 148
51 Pinyin (2) 151
52 Proud of Chinese characters 154