Before diving into the archeological evidence for the biblical God in ancient Chinese writings, let us first take a quick look at how these writings originated.
According to tradition, throughout the reign of the Yellow Emperor Huang Di, the very first characters, basic illustrations of familiar items, image words (pictographs) were created. Other examples are Sumerian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphics. A much later advancement is an alphabet which enabled pronunciation of the written information. Some ancient types of writing have actually grown, to make it possible for the reader to pronounce what was composed.
Chinese is such a case where phonetic complements were placed in some characters. Chinese like all languages has actually altered over its 4,000 years of existence. Throughout with the passage of time over the many centuries, the origin and precise definition of these initial pictographs were lost or ended up being blurred; and even the true definition of Shang Di likewise ended up being misunderstood. Superimposed on all of this is stylistic variations of writing characters. Nevertheless, a significant discovery has actually given an insight into early Chinese writing.