中国古文字学是以考察汉字产生、发展与演变,研究并解读出土古文字资料,并藉此对中国上古社会、经济、文化、思想等领域进行探索的一门学科。汉字从古至今经历了几个时期,综合其整个发展历史,大致可以分为四个阶段:先秦古文字阶段,秦汉隶书阶段,两晋、隋唐至20世纪中叶应用的真书(正楷汉字)阶段,中国人民共和国成立以后推广应用的简化汉字阶段。 Chinese ancient philology is a discipline that explores the generation, development and evolution of Chinese characters, studies and interprets the data of ancient Chinese characters and explores the social, economic, cultural and ideological fields in ancient China. Chinese characters have been going through several periods since ancient times. According to their entire development history, they can be divided into four stages: the stage of ancient Chinese characters in Qin Dynasty, the period of scriptures in Qin and Han Dynasties, the real book (block characters) applied in the middle of the Jin dynasty, Sui and Tang dynasties to the mid-20th century, Simplified Chinese Character Popularization and Application Popularized after the Founding of the People’s Republic of China.