From recording to writing: Some people contend that perhaps the traditional tales of "recording by tying knots in string" and "the legendary emperor Fu Hsi drawing the eight trigrams" as well as prehistoric animal drawings can all ac count, at least in part, for the origins of characters.
有人認為，古來「結繩記事、伏義畫卦」的傳說，乃至刻在岩石上的動物畫「史前岩畫」，或許可部分解答文字的源起。