從新出土材料重新探索中國文字的起源及其相關的問題

A considerable amount of research into the origin of Chinese characters has been effected by scholars in the past. As a result of the continual finds attending archaeological investigations over the last few years many important materials of value to this subject providing direct or indirect information have come to light and have aroused much interest, e.g. the discovery of inscribed pottery at Chiang-chai, Lin-t'ung-hsien 臨潼姜寨following immediately upon that of Pan-p'o 半坡was stimulating news to those concerned with the origin of Chinese characters. The graph □ was structurally more complex than the various Pan-p'o marks and, moreover was seen as being exceptionally close to the oracle-bone character 岳yüeh; the incised symbols on pottery which seem likely to have been used as, a primitive form of hieroglyphic writing recovered from Ma-chang style tombs at Liu-wan, Lo-tu, Ch'ing-hai, 青海樂都柳灣. in 1974; and also tied up with such finds are the, half- dozen graphs on pottery from a Ta-wen-k'ou 大汶口site excavated over the last few years. All such data, especially the Chiang-chai finds suggest that despite doubts that may be held in respect of the status of Pan-p'o pottery graphs as a primitive form of character, the Chiang-chai graphs of only a few centuries later in date allow us to theories in terms of a circa 4000 B.C. date for the commencement of a viable albeit primitive form of Chinese character and the influence from this area reaching westwards to Ch'ing-hai, eastwards to Shan-tung, northwards to Ho-pei, and possibly southwards to Kuang-tung -and even to Taiwan-would have resulted in a prolific and active period of attempts towards a, form of written expression, the manifestation of which we present know only through the practice of inscribing pottery.

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