The earliest characters in China originated from the Eight Diagrams drawn by Fuxi who was enlightened from Hetuluoshu and the characters resulted in the invention of Chinese characters. The earliest set of Chinese characters were the clan emblems. Drawing the Eight Diagrams, categrizing family names and scoring signs, Fuxi initiated the history of 5-thousand-year Chinese civilization. The recordations of literature shows that the activities of drawing the Eight Diagrams and scoring signs by Fuxi and creating words by Cangjie were both from central China. Seen from the archeological findings, the self-explanatory words represented by numerals mostly originated from the primary recording signs of Yangshao Culture in Guanzhong Rigion, the central Shannxi Province, while the main construct components of characters having the pictographic and associative traits might have certain connections and lineage with the pictographic signs of Dawenkou Culture in the rigion of Haidai, Shandong Province and its neighbors. It was in Central China that the Chinese ancient cultures developed in the way of exchanging, melting, expending and booming, and it was also there that the Chinese character system was firstly formed, where Chinese civilization sent out its first light.

• 李立新