It would appear that writing began early in China, that is, soon after their presumed migration from the plains of Shinar. Wine vessels dated 4,500 years old each with a stylized pictographs on them were discovered in tombs at Yanghe in Luxian County, Shandong province. Further, ten of the first shapes of T'ien Kan ( Heavenly Stems) which the Chinese have preserved are similar to Sumerian writing. Did they bring some writing skills with them when they migrated? Observe the following examples:

The Chinese attribute their writing system to Ts'ang Chieh, a minister and historian to the "Yellow Emperor", Huang Ti (c. 2500 BC). His organization of a writing system must certainly have taken advantage of the already existing usages of symbols among the people.

If all of the above is not pure coincidence, it would indicate that the Chinese brought the memory of Sumerian writing into China from the plains of Shinar. Lately, a number of Chinese characters have been discovered which seem to embody the memory of the primal events of human history. This thesis is presented in the book The Discovery of Genesis by C.H. Kang and Ethel R. Nelson © 1979. Here I will illustrate four of characters with their structure which suggests the memory of primal historical events.

This Chinese Character means to create and is composed as follows:

No. 1 =dust
No. 2= mouth or breath
No. 3 = alive
No. 4 = to talk
No. 5 = walking

This character calls to mind the words of Genesis:

"The LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground
and blew into his nostrils the breath of life,
and so man became a living being". (Gn 2:7)

The upper character symbolize two trees and the lower one represent woman. It means to covet, desire or greed. Here we may recall the two trees in Genesis, the "tree of life" and the "tree of knowledge of good and evil". Thus: "The woman saw that the tree was good for food, pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it;...." (Gn 3:6)

Again the upper part of the character consists of two symbolic trees. The lower part is the abbreviated character for God which becomes a verb when the middle line is hooked. Thus it means to command, to forbid, to warn, to prohibit or notifies. Thus it call to our minds God's command in Genesis, "The LORD God gave man this order: 'You are free from any of the trees in the garden except the tree of knowledge of good and bad' ". (Gn 2:16-17)

This character means tempter or demon.

motion + garden + man + privately + devil + trees + cover = tempter

Here again we see the "tree of life" and the "tree of knowledge of good and evil". The tempter appears to hide under these two trees. Eve tells the tempter that God has forbidden them to eat from the tree in the middle of the garden because if they did, they would die. The tempter tells her that they would not die but they would become like gods knowing what is good and what is evil. (Gn 3:1-5)

Conclusion

Did the Chinese author or authors of these characters intend their embodied meaning we see today or did they proceed from the different perspective? In view of their worship of the true God and the unbroken succession of these characters over the period of 4,500 hundred years it is likely they intensionally designed them to mean what they contain. If this is not the case, their hidden meaning resides in the providence of God who sees all things and orchestrates both the consciousness of the character builders to write as they did and today's Christians to see their meaning, even if not intentionally placed there by their authors. To put is in the author own's words, "Could the Chinese characters have been divinely preserved, along with fossil remains, as supporting witnesses to the Hebrew Scriptures, which answers the perplexing questions of origins?" (P.9)

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