The invention of chinese writing is credited to emperor Fixi sometime between 2953-2838 B.C. It used pictoral symbols and was written on tortoise shells before paper. The members of the scholar-gentry class that staffed the imperial bureaucracy used the four treasures. They are a brush, paper, an inkstick, and an inkstone. It is called calligraphy.
That's really interesting that they used tortoise shells. I didn't even know there were tortoises in China. I'm guessing that this was before paper was invented.
ReplyDeleteI had no clue they used tortoise shells!! I wonder if that was hard to write on? Have you found out how they got the tortoise out of their shells, or did they just write on the toroise in its shell?
ReplyDeleteI didn't know they used tortise shells! That's so cool! I wonder why they used the tortise shell?
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