Historical Discoveries  Origins of Chinese Scripts  Ancestry & Environments  List of Disocveries

Origins of Chinese Scripts:

1.   The Neolithic Jade Sculptures with Carved/engraved Scripts:

1-1. As Neolithic jades sculptures have been excavated from archeological finds in the 20th century,
the nature of jade culture in the Neolithic China has not yet been fully explored and understood.
Since 1979 we have collected diversities of Neolithic jade sculptures with character scripts on them.

1-2. Upon further investigations, these rare collected jade sculptures with character scripts on them,
could not be seen at the public museums around the world. As well, we could not trace them from
from academic publications and trade journals.

1-3. These Neolithic jade scripts are now providing evidences to account for  the beginnings and
development of the Chinese character scripts.      
 
2.  Significance of the Neolithic Jade Sculptures with Scripts：

2-1. Our investigations indicate that scripts originated initially as picture form into scripts in the NorthWest
and the pattern developed towards the Northeast,.the Hongshan Culture The Eastern Yi culture at TaiWu
 (太湖) also developed its own scripts from simples strokes independently.  
FuSui (斧燧氏), TaHoe (太昊氏), TaYan (太炎氏) scripts could be found in  the TaiWu regions. At the time
of CangJie (蒼頡), consolidated scripts could be found in the Central Plains regions.

2-2. The oracle bone scripts and bronze scripts from the late Shang of about 3,100 years ago have been
found by scholars to be mature scripts and were not the beginning forms of Chinese character scripts.  

3.  "Neolithic Cultural Region" versus the "Archeological Culture"：

3-1. The "archeological culture" , such as  " Hongshan Culture" and "Liangchu Culture"  was defined as
the culture at a specified excavated site.  In order to define a characteristic cultural development over time
and region, an alternative "Neolithic cultural region" is defined by us to cover a period of time for a geological
region within a similar pattern of cultural development.

3-2.  A number of unresolved mysteries in the Chinese archeological publications due to lack of Neolithic
artifacts samples, can now be resolved by identifying the evolving art forms across a larger cultural regions.

4.  Not Viewable from Public Museums:  Neolithic Jade Sculptures with Scripts：
Our Neolithic age jade sculptures with scripts on them will provide actual samples to trace the beginnings and
development of the Chinese character scripts.   

5.  Conventional Artifacts Viewable Publicly:  Shang/Zhou, Han, Jin, Tang, Song Yuen, Ming, & Qing
In order to highlight the creative and inspirational nature of the Neolithic jade sculptures and scripts, and 
to compare with the Bronze and the porcelains of Shang, Zhou, Han, and after, we also exhibit some of our
conventional collection. 

5-1.  Jade vases from Xia/Shang era and Bronze vessels from early Shang are shown.

5-2.  The representative porcelains from Han, Jin, Tang, Song Yuen, Ming, & Qing  demonstrate that art
forms after Eastern Zhou have been imitations from the art forms of the earlier times.  Their art forms were
borrowed either from Neolithic jade vessels or the later bronze vases.