| Chinese Most Ancient Known Pictograms had Vedic Symbols | | | |
| Written by Vrndavan Parker | |||||||||||
 CHARACTER TIAN FOR "FIELD", A CROSS WITHIN A SQUARE, INSIDE A SWASTIKA, REPEATED 4 TIMES MS in Chinese on red earthenware, Ganshu, China, ca. 2200-1800 BC, 1 funeral urn, h. 32 cm, diam. 26 to10 cm, wide, near spherical corpus with vertical ringlugs at the middle, tapering to a base which is a little wider than the mouth, decorations in dark brown and light violet. Provenance: Cemetery, Ganshu, China (2200-1800 -); 2. Private collection, Ascona, Switzerland (1965-) Commentary: From the Yangshao Neolitic period, representing the oldest Chinese pictograms/marks/characters next to the Banpo neolithic village pottery ca. 4000 BC, and about 700 years before the oracle bones (MSS 2103/1-7), which is the earliest Chinese continuos writing so far.  Source :Schoyen Collection |
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