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Eve Leung posted an update 6 years, 12 months ago
There had been some rumor about the Chinese writing system, I have no idea where was that came from. What the rumor said before Wang Di, the Chinese can’t read their own writing, which was those oracle script.
I just want to make some clarification about these rumors, the Chinese actually still debate how old was the oracle script, and the tradition of these oracle script was indeed use for oracle and divination purpose, what the shaman did was use a turtle shell or a piece of animal bone, pre-craved some marking on the bone, they had some kind of craving system, could be some kind of geometric pattern, then they place these bone or shell on the fire, when the object started to crack, shaman read those crack mark on the object as a sign of prediction or divination, more or less like reading the tea leaf.
After the reading, they record this event onto the bone, these bones and shells eventually buried with the shaman after his/her death.
From all the archaeology dig site, there are few hundred or even thousand of them between yellow river and yangtze river, the Chinese found huge amount of these type of bones and shell, from these object, we can actually see the progression of the Chinese writing script, it was started with just a few scripts, that doesn’t form a writing system in the early stage, as time goes by, these type of records became more and more complex and more and more script added to the bones and shells. If the Chinese couldn’t read these oracle script, how can they figure out who consulted the shaman for which event?
Like one of the oracle bone tells Fu Hao (was one of the many wives of King Wu Ding of the Shang dynasty, and, unusually for that time, also served as a military general and high priestess) consulted the shaman if she will give birth to a good luck baby. The result came back said it was bad luck, it turn out, she gave birth to a baby girl not a boy, this is why bad luck.
Chinese was started as a tribal base culture, each culture has it is own unique language and own way of living until….
Wang Di (Yellow Emperor) came to the scene, his biggest contribution was “untied” many tribes (more like conquered), improving agriculture technology, medicine, calendar, etc., Cangjie 倉頡 claimed to be an official historian of the Yellow Emperor who always being credited with inventor of the Chinese script, as far as we could see, he wasn’t invented the whole Chinese writing system from zero to hero, he used the oracle bone’s script as his base to turn the script into a form of writing system, and this was the first writing system the Chinese had.
As time goes by, this writing system transformed many many time until First Emperor of China united the Chinese script into one and one only writing system, and all these development can be trace back and forth step by step.
Why the Chinese so obsessed with the Chinese Block Script? Because each word represents our way of life, and history of our progression, each words tells not just a meaning, it has a story behind it.
Like the word Abandon 弃, this word’s original form was much more complex, it represented by a basket in the middle, two adult carry it, and a child siting in the basket, it tells a story once upon of time, when the Chinese’s farming technology still primitive, famine was common, abandoning their child was a common practice in order to survived. This word became a painful memories of our barbaric past.
When did this practice discouraged? When the word 孝 was promoted by the ruling class, google translate this word as Filial, the original form of this word was a child supporting an elderly, and this is a word became the center of our culture, that governed us for five thousand years.
Then there was a rumor after First Emperor burnt all the books and kill all the scholar, he rewrote the history of the Chinese.
That is NOT true! The Chinese was so obsessed with their writing and learning, many people not just risk their life, they even risk their whole clan’s life (around 900-10,000 members within a clan) to preserved those books, the descendants of Confucius did just that! They hide those books (bamboo sticks) inside of their wall, others hide their books (bamboo sticks) in the well, etc., so NOT all the books being burnt!
Otherwise why do we have the Chronicle of Lu, Book of Spring and Autumn, , even the book of – Art of War was written before First Emperor, if he truly burnt all the books before him, we wouldn’t have the Art of War do we?! Even if he burnt many books, he can’t dug up all the graves can he? The Chinese buried their books and records in their grave! The Chinese just simply obsessed with books during their life time and even after death!
The reason why the Chinese being the way we are – no matter what religion one practice, the clan which we belongs to still practice ancestor worshiping, the oldest form of religion practice, meaning, each individual can practice whatever they want in terms of their believe system, be the Buddhism, Taoism or the Christianity, etc., but as a clan base, the whole clan still put ancestor worship at the first place. Each clan still kept their common hall, in the hall, many ancestor’s name tags are on display, and the clan genealogy book placed on the center of the offering table, this is why most of us do not need the DNA test to know where do we come from.
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-thanks for this summary of a very large issue.
Thank you Dana:
I just want to add – The First Emperor of China (259 – 210 BC) did indeed tried to wipe out all the Chinese history before him, attempted to make the descendants of the Chinese believe he was the first heavenly granted Emperor, everything starts with him.
However as I stated before, many people risk not just their own life, their family or even the whole entire clan’s life to preserve these books, if the Emperor found out, he wouldn’t just execute an individual, often the whole entire clan will be executed as well.
The world history only granted the Chinese culture for 2000 years civilization, but when finally the capital city of Shang Dynasty came to the light (Just like the city of Troy!!!), the History of the Chinese finally confirmed those fragment was NOT myth, it was part of real history!
As many archaeological dug around the country, including dug up many ancient’s grave, more and more records return to the light, and these records was far older than the First Emperor himself, thanks to the Chinese old tradition, many ruling class or educated individual from wealthy big clan, they bury books with them, just like warriors bury weapon in their grave.
Through these historical records from the archaeological find, now we even found out the last King of Shang (1075-1046 BC) wasn’t as bad as what the history had said about him (most of those accusation came after his death, our popular culture even accuse his principle wife as a demon fox with nine tails reincarnated LOL), he was completely demonized, scholar suspect this was a propaganda the Zhou Dynasty (周武王，姬发 Ji Fa) did to legitimize their war campaign against the Last King of Shang (紂王 Zhòu Wáng).
Do you know, Leung/Liang 梁, Wong/Wang 黃, Zhao/Jou 趙, Xu/Hui 許, Ma 马, Lee/Li 李 etc etc etc. are came from the same clan Ying 嬴, the descendants of house of Wang Di (Yellow Emperor)., The reason why Lee/Li founded the Tang Dynasty in China at the western part? It is the same reason as the First Emperor 嬴政 of China, that was their ancestral ground. Therefore, if any one still consider the family of Lee/Li 李 is the Yellow Dragon, the Royal Blood Line of China, I can tell you, it is all BS!!!!!!! Tell the Lee 李 family get permission from the rest of the Ying 嬴 clan descendants – 廉、谷、鍾、梁、黃、費、徐、秦、許、江、趙、马、葛、缪、谭、瞿、金、蘇、英、裴、邝、旷 before they even try to self proclaim anything!
Eve.. I wanna chew out a theory with you. China… started out as an Egyptian colony. Then had its history wiped… Im doing serious headway into Egyptian history, linking sourcebooks to periods, listing the pharaohs etc.. There’s definite contact and Chinese emissaries are shown in heiroglyphs.. But there is also serious collaberation between the egyptian concept of soul and sahu and the taoist method of medicine and the heirogpyhs and chinese system of writing are similiar, they called themselves the middle kingdom which makes sense if you already have the upper and lower kingdoms. need to compile..
Kahlypso: I’m sure there was a common source of antediluvian civilization once, this is why the cosmology of the Chinese and the Greek were very similar, the universe is a bigger version of man, therefore, study human body can understand the the universe better. Since the Greek has influence from the Egyptian, therefore, it is an indicator of common source as well.
There was some kind of trading between Egyptian and Chinese going on, but if you look at the geological location of the extreme early map of the Chinese they wasn’t start at the sea side, therefore, the actual physical trading took place in much later period.
Here is a few question I have in my mind –
1. If the Chinese ancestor was indeed came from a group of Egyptian, why didn’t they continue to use the Egyptian writing system? Why were they invent a slightly different writing system?
2. If the Chinese ancestor was indeed came from a group of Egyptian, isn’t it made more sense they settled at the sea side not travel inland and settle in the middle of no where? Isn’t it much easier for them to keep the sea trade open between Egypt and China?
3. There was some indication that the group Wang Di was slightly well equipped than rest of the tribes, this was the reason they can bring the Chinese civilization forward, much better cultivation method, advance the calendar system, better metallurgy technology.
4. Look at the geological location of Wang Di again, they were surrounded by different tribes, each tribes use their own animal symbol or totem to represent themselves. If Wang Di came from Egypt, how did they settle into this very similar culture? FYI Wang Di’s original symbol or totem was a BEAR!
My suspicious to this is, after the catastrophic event, some of the survivors from the antediluvian culture scattered around mainland China to form different tribes, let us not to forget the Jomon culture of Japan, this culture also associate with the tribes from the Southern coastal China from Guang Dong to Fu Jian province, and Taiwan.
Each tribes may still preserve fragment of their previous culture, the reason Wang Di rise to power, was that he travel around the country to gather the information, knowledge, and recruit people who has the skill to aid him.
From there he has more fragment of knowledge than every other tribes. One thing I notice, the earliest Chinese script actually similar to those of Mohenjo-daro’s stamp script, much far away from the Egyptian script, therefore, my suspicious will go to some kind of association between the Oracle bones and shells and the Harappan script. I will give you 2 of my finding in the next post.
There is another question, if we look at the Jomon culture, they didn’t even had their own writing system, and they had zero metal object as well, so how can it possible these people had such advance knowledge without using it?!
My argument will be – The early Jomon culture was a matriarchal society (so as the Chinese), if these were also the survivors of the antediluvian culture, they may lost their writing ability, but still kept the metallurgy knowledge intact, not using it, maybe because they understand, technology move in, peace and harmony move out?! When the Chinese brought 600 children and their so call advance technology to Japan (255-155 BC), that was when the Jomon culture suddenly end it! So once again to confirm – Technology moved in, peace and harmony moved out!
Finding no. 2: An Indian Princess married a Korean King, I don’t want to talk about it in detail, you go read the Wiki yourself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heo_Hwang-ok
Anyway, the Kingdom Heo Hwang-ok married to, wasn’t the Korean we know today, they are completely different race of Korean, and they were there far longer than the Korean came from the North, that Kingdom called Gaya (Kaya) 加倻, it is a extremely Indian style name, that is the indicator there had been a trade route long established between India and Far East Asia, but NOT with the Chinese, with an Indian out post!
One more thing the princess most likely from Sri Lanka than mainland India.
If you set sail from Egypt, the first place you should end up is Sri Lanka. Then the next stop will be Khmer empire! Then Next will be Taiwan! Finally Korea Gaya (Kaya) 加倻 before going into the Pacific ocean!
So was the Chinese culture actually came from Egypt?! I doubt it, if the Chinese culture came from the common source as Egypt before the catastrophic event, I will give a YES, came from Egypt after the catastrophic event, I will give a NO!
Did they communicate, I will give a yes, but in much later period when Chinese culture finally developed into big enough scale, before that the Egyptian maybe consider we weren’t good enough 😛
I’m hurting at the moment and cant sit at computer.. I will come back later with better answer..
quick answer for now :
1. Why were they invent a slightly different writing system?
Answer : They didnt – Heiroglpyhs only got tranlsated correctly contemporaly because liinguist inspired himself from chinese methods of writing. recording phonetic sound.
2. sn’t it much easier for them to keep the sea trade open between Egypt and China?
No – pirates from persian civilisations, hindus civilisations, sea monsters, errant bored gods with weapons of mass
destruction and still all the same problems sailing has always offered. bad weather, lack of water, water pushing in the wrong direction.
Why did they build the wall?
3. There was some indication that the group Wang Di was slightly well equipped than rest of the tribes, this was the reason they can bring the Chinese civilization forward, much better cultivation method, advance the calendar system, better metallurgy technology.
My people perish for want of knowledge.
4. Look at the geological location of Wang Di again, they were surrounded by different tribes, each tribes use their own animal symbol or totem to represent themselves. If Wang Di came from Egypt, how did they settle into this very similar culture? FYI Wang Di’s original symbol or totem was a BEAR!
All pre dynastic civilisation in Egypt was totematic, before putting animal heads on human bodies they were worshipping totems and animals. Crocodiles and Lions made for very bloody people…
Quote: All pre dynastic civilization in Egypt was totematic, before putting animal heads on human bodies they were worshipping totems and animals. Crocodiles and Lions made for very bloody people… End Quote
You do realized the difference between a full bloom civilization and a tribal base civilization right?
If we look at the Egyptian civilization, there was an indication they were full bloom since the beginning, and a fully intact cosmology, mathematics, calendar system, and the skill in building stone structure, as well as far more superior in alchemy, before the Dynastic of Egypt there were even indication of demigod ruling the pre-dynastic Egypt.
You must understand – The Chinese Macro cosmology it is same as the Greek, but the micro cosmology is different.
First of all, for some reason the Chinese didn’t personified the Earth, the Sun or the Moon like the Greek or the Japanese, we do believe there were supernatural power in this world which we name it the Heavenly realm, the so call gods realm with the small G, these heavenly realm people govern the law of nature, make sure everything works harmoniously, they were the people controls the sun and moon rise and setting, the weather, and the seasons, however these gods cannot directly influence the human affair like those of the Egyptian, Sumerian, Indian, or the Greek, they are STRAIGHTLY forbid having any attachment with the human, specially having sex with a mortal is a serious crime!
The god will be punished A. condemn to the earthly realm to become an immortal, strip all the godly power; B. Lock up in the eternal prison some where in the mountain.
If they have any half breed offspring, he/she will be exiled or banished from the mortal’s society. We do worship hero, but not in the same sense as western culture.
This is also the reason why the Chinese believe there was a crystal palace on the Moon’s surface, Chang E(r) lives inside the palace accompany by a Jade Rabbit. Therefore Chinese Moon mission is call – Chang E(r), and their rover is call Jade Rabbit.
Non of Chinese tribes actually ruled by real demigod, but then why do we call the Nine Li” (九黎)’s leader Chi You (蚩尤) as god of the war? Or worship Yellow Emperor as a god or demigod? Because if any human did a significance’s deed, good or bad, Chinese often worship or condemn them either god, demon or spirit.
Guan Yu is a one good example, this person lived …-220AD (no birth year), because of his loyalty to his master, he replaced Chi You (蚩尤) as god of war, you can visit any where in China you will see the shrine of Guan Di (new godly title for Guan Yu). Chi You (蚩尤) was a condemned demon war god, but Guan Di as a positive aspect of war god being worshiped.
This is correspondent to Chinese’s ancestor worship tradition, and each tribe will contribute their worship subject into the later Chinese culture, we Chinese has one say – We worship anything as long as it/he/her will protect us and give us advantage.
However if you insist there was a group of Egyptian settled in China while there was already pirates from Persian civilizations, isn’t that you are talk about the time frame could be in much later period? Because during Persian civilization, there were desert silk road between China and Persia. Or you are talking about Babylon period? Even if there was indeed a group of Egyptian settle in China, unfortunately it may already being wipe out by the Chinese, therefore we found no trace of it, if there were trace, not just structure, language, writing system, isn’t it make more sense the trace should be found in the Chinese DNA? If you insist the Chinese culture was actually came from pre-dynastic Egypt, I will have doubt to it, because the evidence just not there.
Both Greek and Egyptian love to built their structure with stones, but the Chinese can only built palaces with wood, some what much smaller scale of stone structure as building’s foundation during the early period.
As why some Egyptian words so similar like those of the Chinese, they could be came from the very same source – The Antediluvian culture. Isn’t it the Bible already said – there was time human share one language and one writing system? It didn’t said when though, so why can’t we assume it was during the pre-catastrophic antediluvian period?
There were trace of DNA in some native of New Zealander to ancient Iran, these native of New Zealander actually more Caucasian than Polynesian.
Quote: Why did they build the wall? End Quote
As for the great wall, it was built to prevent Huns’s or proto-Huns harassment, these horse back riders robbing the border villages with speed raid, normal foot military infantry useless to stop these raiders, therefore, some States’s ruler built a section of wall try to stop them roaming their land freely, the wall was some what extremely primitive during 771 to 476 BC, each State built their own section of the wall protect their own interest, these walls function actually very minimum, and there is NO such thing the Great Wall during these time.
When First Emperor united China, he ordered an extension and fortification on the these walls, so before First Emperor, there isn’t any great wall. After First Emperor, each subsequent emperor contributed the construction of the great wall, the most famous section was built by the Ming Dynasty’s 13 emperors (1368–1644AD), it is this section most impressive that you can view it from space, and visited by most of the tourist. Actually outside of the Ming’s section, you will not believe some of the wall were actually part of the Great wall, because it is very broken, and just look like a normal wall.
Go study the history of the Chinese writing, and go visit China you will be far more understand what made Chinese unique in our own way.
The way Chinese obsess with their books and writing records is phenomenal, they will rather cuddle the books and willing to being burn alive instead of leave any books behind, when each grave being evacuated, the first thing they look it is NOT the jewelry or valuable, but the writing documents, when jewelry, valuable or the body of the grave owner being dug up, there is no cheer, but once there were books or records unearthed, you can often hear cheers at the back ground.
Quote: Answer : They didnt – Heiroglpyhs only got tranlsated correctly contemporaly because liinguist inspired himself from chinese methods of writing. recording phonetic sound. End Quote
The Chinese language and writing system wasn’t unified until the First Emperor, which it is NOT as early as pre-dynastic Egypt.
The early period of China was divided into many feudal states, each states has it is own language, they do however use a common language for official communication, eventually they also developed hundred of writings, as I stated previously just the word home 家, we had over 100+ way to write it.
Also unlike the Egyptian Hieroglyphs, it can be randomly place in any direction, which means it can be start or end from any direct, they just want to stylize it more uniform. Chinese writing system was extremely STRAIGHT! It always start from TOP RIGHT and down to the left since the Yellow Emperor period! There is NO other way to read and write it!!!
If the First Emperor being influenced by the Egyptian culture during his unification time, adapted some of the method of Chinese writing matching it is sound, possible! Was there any hard evidence to prove it? NOT that I know of. Was Chinese culture a side branch of Egyptian culture after the catastrophic event, I doubt it.
I do not know anything about Egyptian writing system or it is language, therefore I can’t say how similar between the Egyptian Hieroglyphs and language vs the Chinese one.
Here is another interesting found from wiki: Quote –
Recent research suggests that the “burying of the Confucian scholars alive” is a Confucian martyrs’ legend; rather, the emperor ordered the killing (坑 kēng) of a group of alchemists after having found that they had fooled him. In Han times, the Confucian scholars, who had served the Qin loyally, used that incident to distance themselves from the failed dynasty. Kong Anguo (孔安國 c. 165 – c. 74 BC), a descendant of Confucius, turned the alchemists (方士 fāngshì) into Confucianists (儒 rú) and entwined the martyrs’ legend with the strange story of the rediscovery of the lost Confucian books behind a demolished wall in the house of his ancestors.[60] The emperor’s own library still had copies of the forbidden books but most of these were destroyed later when Xiang Yu burned the palaces of Xianyang in 206 BC.[61] End quote.
Unlike the Egyptian hieroglyphics, they were like spring out of no where, and everything completely intact, it wasn’t this case in Chinese Block Writing, it has a slow progress line you can trace back and forth, from the earliest Oracle bones and shell script, to the later more systematic stylist writing, from there due to different region has their own culture and local language, it developed hundreds of different Chinese stylist writing – Just the word Jia 家 (home), during the Spring and Autumn period 771 to 476 BC , it has 100+ way to write this word!
In the region called Chu (basically the area covers Fu Jian provenience and small part of Guang Dong provenience which the native tribe wasn’t even race of Han, they were the descendants of the Jomon!) This region developed a stylist writing on it is own, they add a lot of animal figure to the words, eventually some of these animal figure being simplified in later period became as the sign to a word which we still use today!
Finally the First Emperor (嬴政 259 -210 BC) ordered the unified writing, he not just unified one thing, he unified currency, volume, other measurement, as well as many other reform, it took many years to finally settle into one stylist writing system.
Finding no. 1 – According to a Chinese legend – The Legend of the couple swords: Quote Gan Jiang (Chinese: 干將; pinyin: Gān Jiàng) and Mo Ye (Chinese: 莫邪; pinyin: Mò Yé) were a swordsmith couple who lived during the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history End Quote. A pair of swords were forged by and named after them. The legend has it, these sword never rust, it always stay sharp, it can cut though many object normal sword cannot, therefore, these were the legendary couple swords.
Hong Kong historian and researcher, he notice the name Gan Jiang (Chinese: 干將; pinyin: Gān Jiàng) isn’t a person’s name, it was a title, it means – Prisoner! So that indicated this sword smith wasn’t a citizen of Chu (remember Chu covers most part of Fu Jian provenience and small part of Guang Dong provenience, and the native tribes was the descendants of the Jomon?!) He most likely a POW!!!!!
First I want to point out, since Jomon culture was officially consider as the Japanese ancient native culture, and the famous Samurai sword also consider as type of legendary sword. But if we look at mainstream history, it said the metallurgy was introduced from China or Korea.
How can a late comer capable of forge such legendary sword?! Isn’t that supposedly China and Korea should had better sword forge technology instead?!
The legend of the couple sword of course just a legend or even a story, but when – Quote: Archaeologists discovered the ancient weapon, believed to be around 2,300 years old, in a tomb among the ruins of Chengyang City in central China. When they unsheathed the large blade from its muddied cover, they found it had not oxidised but was still sharp, shiny and in near-perfect condition. End Quote
This is a confirmation that the legend of the Couple Sword wasn’t just a pure myth after all! However, after so many years and dug up people’s countless graves, there is ONLY ONE SWORD that is so legendary?! Why?!
You can’t blame me from suspect, the Jomon descendants tightly guarding the secret of metallurgy, since some of their descendants also scattered at the coastal area of China, the Han people (my own fellow of brethren) use violent caught some of the Jomon descendants, force them to forge sword, they did forged some sword to please the Chu King (one of the Chinese state), but the secret still remains with them until the rise of the Japanese Samurai.
Why do I go so lengthy to tell two of my findings? Because if there were hundreds of tribes scattered around mainland China, each tribe kept some fragment knowledge from the antediluvian culture.
You are Wang Di (yellow emperor), you want to built a powerful Empire or Kingdom what have you, or you just simply want to improve your people’s living standard, what will you do?
Will you go around the country to find useful source of knowledge, and recruit skillful person to aid you? How do we know Wang Di did all that?
First thing from the Book of Wang Di, this book has 2 chapters, both chapter written in conversation style, like Plato’s Republic! But rather Book of Wang Di also a composition of piece of music, I don’t know LOL
Wang Di asked long series of question from a medicine expert, and later these questions and answers became the Book of Wang Di.
Secondly, there were books talked about Wang Di go around the country to find skillful people to aid him in manage his Tribe/Kingdom, from metallurgy, to agriculture, how do we know that? Because names were provided, this person does this for him, that person dose that for him etc. Yes historical credit everything under Wang Di’s name.
He was credited as the inventor of the calendar, he wasn’t! It was someone else did it for him, I forgot their names, they were sent to observe the night-sky and recording all the observation, so later the calendar was born;
He was credited the book of medicine, but the knowledge inside the book – medical examination (The Suwen 素問) and treatment (Lingshu 靈樞) came from an elderly expert Qíbó (Chinese: 岐伯); His herbalist knowledge came from his half brother Yan Di!!!!!!!!! The 神農本草經 Shennong Bencao Jing (Divine Farmer’s Classic of the Materia Medica) Who test all the herbs to find out their properties!!!!!!!!!!!!
He was credited as the inventor of Chinese writing system, it wasn’t!!! It was Cang Jie 仓颉 invented the Chinese system of writing!
He was credited for huge improvement of metallurgy, but it was another guy which I forgot his name again (LOL the ancient Chinese name make NO sense, so hard to remember them), this person was recruited to help Wang Di make better farming equipment and weapon to defeat his half brother -_-!!!!
From all these angle we can tell, he LEARNT the bits and pieces from others!!!!! But then again, his own family may also kept some fragments. His half brother Yan Di was the grandson of Fuxi from his mother side, the legendary co-creator with his wife Nüwa to make first Chinese. They should past down some fragments to Yan Di.
LOL can you believe it?! I’m not coming from the house of Fu Xi and Nüwa! And I’m not EVEN blood related during the House of Wang Di period! But after so many generation, never mind we are all mix up. Out of 7 major dynasties in Chinese history, 5 were ruled by Han race, only one dynastic royal family not from the house of Wang Di lolololololol
Wang Di has his own genealogy, we know his father called Shaodian (Chinese: 少典) (born 2679 BC), he has two wives, one gave birth to Yandi (The Yan Emperor, Chinese: 炎帝; pinyin: Yán Dì, Grandson of Fu Xi and Nüwa). The other wife gave birth to Wang Di (yellow emperor), they both has their own Kingdom or territories, later Yellow Emperor defeated his half brother Yan Di, and subsequently united the surrounding tribes to found Hua Xia culture 華夏, the reason we called our land – Central Plain 中原, because we started at the middle, and expended to all four direction, West plain 西原, North plain 北原, South plain 南原, East plain 东原 doesn’t belongs to Wang Di. The Yan Emperor (Wang Di’s half brother) owns East plain 东原 to the cost, Bird was his Totem/Symbol, later the bird became Phoenix.
West plain 西原 was own by the legendary god of war in Chinese myth Nine Li tribe” (九黎), later Wang Di combine all the forces and defeated Nine Li tribe” (九黎).
So this name middle plain 中原 has anything to do with Upper Egypt or Lower Egypt honestly I don’t know.
One last thing, the so call Chinese books, it is not the same as the western one, the idea of a book in Chinese it is a set of writing or a series of records, not really written on fabric (commonly use before the invention of paper) or bamboo stick (also commonly use before the invention of paper), these records also engraved on bronze vessels, pottery etc.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houmuwu_ding), they will bury these objects in the grave, specially if the grave belongs to a king, the objects number will be massive, often we also found bamboo stick book in the grave as well.
All in all even if First Emperor burnt all the books he could found, bury all the scholars alive, can he dug up all the graves, remove all the objects and place the fake one inside it? Please use common sense!
Sorry, forgot to add one more thing to explain what makes me think the Chinese Oracle bones and shell script maybe associate with Harappan script, lot of Harappan scripts was a kind of block stamp or seal like, each one is square or rectangle shape, if you look at the Chinese, we don’t have a signature signing tradition, each ruling class or educated individual own a square or rectangular shape of stamp or seal to identified themselves, serve as a form of signature , even the Emperor was using an imperial stamp or seal to sign his imperial order or announcement, non educated individual use their thumb print as their stamp. Later this tradition lead to the invention of printing press right after the paper was invented.
My question is why the Sumerian use cylinder seal, Egyptian use oval or circular seal any form of shape but block, while the Harappan script use so much block seal? The Chinese block seal so similar to the Harappan script block seal was merely a coincidence?