If you look at it in terms of the system of Chinese characters, and place the Dinggong find after the earliest Dawenkou pottery markings and before the more recent late-Shang oracle bone characters, a rough approximation of the development of Chinese Penmanship can be surmised.
若從漢字體系來看，將丁公陶文，上與更早期發現的大汶口陶文，下與商代晚期發現的甲骨文連起來，中國文字的脈絡約可勾勒出一個大概。