仓颉造字的传说，在东汉许慎的《说文解字·叙》里有一段经典记载：「黄帝之史仓颉，见鸟兽蹄迒之迹，知分理之可相别异也，初造书契。」意思是仓颉看到鸟兽的足迹各不相同，受到启发，开始创造文字。在这之前，古人用结绳的办法记事，《周易·系辞》说：「上古结绳而治，后世圣人易之以书契。」

A classic account of Cangjie appears in the preface of the Shuowen Jiezi by Xu Shen of the Eastern Han: Cangjie, the historian of the Yellow Emperor, saw the footprints of birds and beasts, realised that their patterns could be told apart, and began to create writing. Before that, people kept records by tying knots in cords. The Book of Changes says that in high antiquity people governed by knotted cords, and later sages replaced them with written signs.

《淮南子·本经训》说：「昔者仓颉作书，而天雨粟，鬼夜哭。」文字诞生时，天上下起了谷子，鬼怪在夜里哭泣，可见古人把文字的发明看得多么惊天动地。今天能看到的最早成体系的汉字是甲骨文，1899年由金石学家王懿荣首先认出，距今已有三千多年。

The Huainanzi says that when Cangjie created writing, grain rained from the sky and ghosts wept at night, showing how earth shaking ancient people thought the invention of writing was. The earliest systematic Chinese writing we can see today is the oracle bone script, first recognised in 1899 by the scholar Wang Yirong, and it is more than three thousand years old.

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